
Alex Honnold Speaking Fee: $100,000 to $125,000

Speaking Fee:
$100,000 to $125,000
Travels From:
LAS - Las Vegas, NV
Travels From:
LAS - Las Vegas, NV
Primary Topic Category:
Adventure & Exploration
Primary Topic Category:
Adventure & Exploration
Alex Honnold Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Alex Honnold is a professional rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America's biggest cliffs have made him one of the world's most recognized climbers. A gifted but hard-working athlete, Alex “No Big Deal” Honnold is known as much for his humble, self-effacing attitude as he is for the dizzyingly tall cliffs he has climbed without a rope to protect him if he falls. He is the founder of the Honnold Foundation, an environmental non-profit. And to this day, he maintains his simple “dirtbag-climber” existence, living out of his van and traveling the world in search of the next great vertical adventure.
span style="font-weight: 400," The only human to free solo Yosemite’s 3000 foot rock monolith, El Capitan. No rope, climbing alone. More people will walk on the moon than will do what Alex Honnold has done. His extremely rare skill and unmatched mental focus have helped make him climbing’s transcendent, breakout star, inspiring millions around the world. /span
span style="font-weight: 400," Beyond his 2017 history-making ascent of El Cap, dramatically documented in the Oscar-winning film /span i span style="font-weight: 400," Free Solo /span /i span style="font-weight: 400," , Alex is simply one of the hardest working, certainly most accomplished, and greatest climbers to ever live. His feats have blown the doors wide open on the sport of climbing, placing him at the front of mainstream media like 60 Minutes, The New York Times, and the cover of National Geographic. Alex continues to push himself, building on a singular resume highlighted by speed records on The Nose, the famous 24 hour “Triple Solo” of Mt. Watkins, Half Dome and El Capitan, and cutting-edge expeditions in Antarctica, South America, Greenland and elsewhere. /span
span style="font-weight: 400," Humble and self-effacing, he is deeply appreciative of the position he holds in culture and uses it for the greater good. In 2012, Alex founded the Honnold Foundation, an environmental non-profit that provides grants to organizations /span span style="font-weight: 400," advancing solar energy access all over the world /span span style="font-weight: 400," . Their vision was simple: to improve lives and reduce environmental impact. In 2021 alone, Honnold Foundation supported 44 communities across 17 countries, all focused on community-centered innovation catalyzed by solar energy. /span
span style="font-weight: 400," Alex is always looking for opportunities to share stories from the sport he loves. A host of the Climbing Gold Podcast, Alex explores the unique stories of climbing culture that originally drew him to the sport. Recently he’s led several environmentally-focused documentary and TV projects, putting his climbing skills to use by reaching hard to get to corners of the earth. /span
span style="font-weight: 400," Alex lives in Las Vegas with wife Sanni and his daughter June. /span