But last summer, in a feat more exciting than anything Star Trek can dish out, it was smashed by Alex Honnold. El Capitan is a ridiculously tall rock. Climbing it has been likened to an Olympic event; free climbing means if you make a mistake, you don’t get silver – you die. So we spend time with Alex and Sanni as they go shopping for a fridge, but also as Alex tries to logic his way up El Capitan in his head. Alex didn’t have an answer, unless the question could be broadened to include television, in which case it was … Star Trek.

Source: National Post October 12, 2018 18:45 UTC