All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing

What Drives Someone to Risk It All? Once considered a fringe activity, free soloing entered the mainstream consciousness when Alex Honnold scaled El Capitan in the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo. Yet people have climbed without ropes for ages for reasons as varied as the individuals themselves. In All and Nothing, climber Jeff Smoot, author of acclaimed memoir Hangdog Days, seeks to understand what motivates them, while examining perspectives on risk, autonomy, and mortality. Through e...