Free climbing Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes or safety gear | 1st solo climb to top

Finally tonight here America strong the young climber who made it to the top of El Capitan no harness no ropes attached. But a mind set on it since he was a boy. The famed El Capitan a 3,000 foot wall of granite in Yosemite nearly impossible to scale with safety equipment, let alone with none. It's called free soloing and 31 year-old Alex an old of Sacramento has been perfecting the rope was climb for a decade. Look at this breathtaking moment about to reach the 2,500 foot summit of El Toro in Mexico. You can see he uses only his bare hands and feet to ascend. Alex has been climbing all his life. What he told us 2 years ago, I go through the same calculation anybody else does the risk taking you know like is it worth taking this risk and I'm like yes, it is more than 60 practice climbs on El Capitan Alex told us today what he was thinking as he neared the top when you're free selling something like a cap it's not as if your mind is wandering. He gave us some of the video he took himself on previous climbs look at the drop below. Yeah, I see what happens the 2,500 foot drop away. I look down you know from time to time enjoy the view I was mostly looking up was pretty excited and I was charging pretty quickly and I was just kind of climbing ahead. And in 3 hours 56 minutes. He had made it to the top becoming the first person to scale El Capitan alone without ropes or safety gear. And what did his mother say. She said that she was glad I hadn't told anything beforehand. The historic climb filmed by National Geographic documentary films. With free-throwing honestly, I've never really dreamt of anything bigger. I mean I can't imagine anything cooler than a cap. I don't know if there's anything better which explains the smile after this American climber reach the top. That was the key there you don't tell your mom until after thanks for watching here. I'm David Muir, I hope to see it right back here tomorrow until then.