I scaled famous 3,000ft cliff with NO ropes… now I push toddler to climb

CLINGING to the sheer cliff face with freezing fingers, Alex Honnold winces as stones cascade past his head and he pauses to see if bigger, more dangerous rocks will follow. The free climber is almost 4,000ft above sea level, in the icy terrain of Greenland, and is about to make history by scaling the previously unconquered Ingmikortilaq cliff face, alongside Brit Hazel Findlay. It’s all in a day’s work for 38-year-old Alex, whose Oscar-winning 2018 documentary Free Solo captured his record-breaking bid to become the first person to climb the 3,000ft El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, without ropes. The superhuman feat, and the hit movie, changed his life forever, making him an overnight star and shining a spotlight on his romance with now wife Sanni. But, ahead of his epic new National Geographic series, Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold, he tells The Sun the “crazy” experience put a strain on the couple’s relationship. “Free Solo made me a lot more high profile and ope