![]() ![]() It also took home a People's Choice Award at the 2018 Tornto Film Festival, as Indie Wire reported, and the New York Times declared Honnold's climb it to be " one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind ever." But that's not the only accolade Free Solo's got going for it. ![]() and the UK ever since it was nominated for an Oscar on Jan. Interest surrounding the documentary has sky rocketed in both the U.S. The El Capitan climb was Honnold's most terrifying challenge to date. 28, 2018, but how do us Brits get in on the action? Well, here's how to watch Free Solo in the UK.įree Solo was produced by National Geographic and focuses on 33-year-old professional climber Alex Honnold and his attempt to become the first free solo climber to scale El Capitan, an iconic rock formation in California's Yosemite National Park. It sounds like my absolute worst nightmare. So, when I heard about Free Solo, a documentary about one man's ascent up a 900-metre rock without ropes or safety gear, I felt a little woozy. ![]() Her one book, "Gaining Ground, The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods" (2002), summarises the results of research on early tetrapods over the previous 25 years.As someone who's scared of heights, I find just staring down an escalator at a shopping mall an intense experience. A measure of the significance of her work is that 15 of her research papers were published in the journal Nature. She authored or co-authored more than 120 research papers as well as numerous popular articles and book reviews. She recounts how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before she found and described the fossil Acanthostega, a 365 million-year-old creature that offered dramatic new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land. ![]() A chance discovery in 1986 in the earth sciences department of Cambridge University, of long-forgotten fossils collected from the Devonian rocks of East Greenland in 1970, was to shape the rest of her career. Jenny Clack recounts how she overcame setbacks before she found and described a fossil which offered new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land.įor paleontologist Professor Jenny Clack, who solved one of the greatest mysteries in the history of life on Earth, success was far from inevitable. ![]()
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