Alex Honnold Net Worth: All You Need To Know

American professional mountaineer Alex Honnold has a net worth of $2 million.

Alex Honnold is best known for being the only person to climb El Capitan solo and is often ranked among the world’s top climbers.

Early Years:

Alex Honnold was born in Sacramento, California on August 17, 1985. His parents were both community college professors. His mother’s side is Polish, while his father’s side is German. He started rock climbing when he was five years old in the gym and by the time he was ten he was going to the gym several times a week and showing his dedication to the sport. As a teenager, he participated in many climbing competitions and often won.

After graduating from Mira Loma High School in 2003, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied civil engineering. He had a hard time in his first year of college. Before living in the dorms, he rented an apartment from a family friend, which limited his social circle. His parents were divorcing, his grandmother died, and he was isolated during his freshman year.

He missed a lot of classes and didn’t return to college after taking a semester off to train for the National Climbing Championships in Scotland. After leaving school, he spent his time climbing and driving around California in his mother’s minivan. When the minivan broke down, he used a bicycle to move around the tent. From 2004 to 2009, he claims he survived on less than $1,000 a month.

Climbing career:

Although he competed in climbing competitions most of his life, he was not well known outside the climbing community until 2007. That same year he freed Astroman and Rostrum in Yosemite Valley, a feat. which was achieved in 1987 only by mountaineer Peter Croft. He gained more recognition in the climbing community only after this success. The following year, he free soloed the 1,200-foot toe crack that splits Zion’s Moonlight Buttress. Due to the incredible difficulty of the climb and the timing of the news on April 1st, many people thought that this achievement was a joke. After free soloing the 2,000-foot Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome in Yosemite in 2008, Alex Honnold set a new record for the fastest ascent in 2012 with a time of one hour and twenty-two minutes.

He had a three-year contract and by 2009 had some notoriety in the climbing community, but was still relatively unknown to the general public. In 2010, he won the Zlatý Piton award for endurance rock climbing.

By 2011, he was considered one of the world’s most experienced free solo rock climbers and began to gain more external recognition. In May of that year, he appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine, and during the winter of that year he attempted to break the record for the fastest ascent of El Capitan, but lost just 45 seconds. After appearing on “60 Minutes” in 2012 to talk about his free solo ascent of Half Dome’s Regular Northwest Face, he became well known to the general public.

He also appeared in the mountaineering documentary “Alone on the Wall.” He and fellow climber Hans Florine attempted to break the record for the fastest ascent of El Capitan in June of that year. They were successful and set a new record of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 46 seconds. Cliff Bar was one of the film’s financial backers and had sponsorship deals with five climbers who appeared in the 2014 documentary “Valley Uprising” about the development of rock climbing in Yosemite Park. Alex Honnold was one of the climbers in the film. Cliff Bar, on the other hand, ended its sponsorship deals with the professional climbers in the film a few months later. They said they made the decision because the company was concerned that climbers were taking unnecessary risks and pushing the boundaries of the sport too far. Alex Honnold is known for his willingness to take enormous risks in the name of his own life and safety.

Honnold used the 2,900-foot Freerider route to make the first free solo ascent of El Capitan on June 3, 2017. One of the most impressive athletic feats of all time, he completed the climb in three hours and 56 minutes. Jimmy Chin, a mountaineer and photographer, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, a documentary filmmaker, documented it and released the documentary film “Free Solo” in 2018. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary that year.

Life at Home: Honnold met Sandi McCandless at a book signing in 2015 and got engaged in late 2019. They tied the knot in September 2020. One of the most important aspects of the documentary “Free Solo” was their relationship. In 2012, he began giving away a third of his earnings to help pay for solar projects that would make more energy available around the world. It grew into a non-profit organization known as the Honnold Foundation, which supports and encourages the use of solar energy in developing countries. Dierdre Wolowick, Honnold’s mother, was the oldest woman to climb El Capitan, doing so at the age of sixty-six.