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May 7, 2012
May 7, 2012
Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
Photograph by Jimmy Chin, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Adventure and Exploration Photos
Alex Honnold takes on the third zigzag of Half Dome without a rope. He has just one more difficult section, or pitch, in the last three before reaching the summit.
See more pictures from the May 2011 feature story "Daring. Defiant. Free."
Watch a video of Alex performing a free-solo climb »
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