Rock climber Alex Honnold inside a moulin – or shaft – in Greenland
National Geographic/Mikey Schaefer
Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold
National Geographic
Disney+
ALEX HONNOLD isn’t the most likely celebrity. The world-class rock climber first entered the mainstream via the Oscar-winning 2018 documentary Free Solo, which chronicled his successful effort at a free solo climb (alone, without any support equipment) of the El Capitan summit in California’s Yosemite National Park.
Since then, he has become an unofficial pop-culture ambassador of rock climbing, appearing in other documentaries and working with National Geographic on nature specials. Honnold…