Free soloing 5.13+ on El Cap with no rope. No second chances. Pure madness.
Master climbing film maker Al Lee, does it again with his film of Leo Houlding's ascent of The Prophet on the East Face of Yosemite's El Cap. This is the main feature and is 43 minutes long. Also includes deep water soloing with Neil Gresham and Liam Cook, Mary Jenner (Dave Birkett's Mrs) on Bleed in Hell - the hardest female trad leed in the UK, Dave Pickford on Dusk till Dawn in Pembroke and Leo again, big wall climbing in Africa.
Cinematography
Lee's drone shots on El Cap are genuinely nauseating.
Stunts
Houlding's free solo—no rope, no bolts, just psychopathy.
Direction
Al Lee makes granite look erotic. It's weird. It works.
Director
Alastair Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Prophet was first free-climbed by Houlding in 2001; this 2011 film documents his return to film it properly, making it one of climbing's most mythologized repeats.
Psyche II arrived right as climbing docs exploded (Meru, Free Solo), but Al Lee's lo-fi British sensibility kept it cult—no Netflix gloss, just chalk and terror.
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