FILE: Iconic outdoor athlete Alex Honnold appears to have climbed Sphere in Las Vegas as part of a new film project.
In broad daylight on April 14, a human climbed the most prominent feature of the Las Vegas skyline: the 366-foot-tall, $2.3 billionSphere. A helicopter hovering over the state-of-the-art entertainment arena appeared to be filming the event. And when visitors caught sight of the spectacle out their resort windows, they whipped out their cellphones todo the same.
After much speculation over the past three days, and more than a few social media discussions centering on who the climber was and whether they had been arrested, SFGATE has learned what really happened: The stunt was part of an upcoming Sphere experience called “From the Edge.”
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And while we couldn’t independently verify that the stuntman was in fact the iconic big-wall climber Alex Honnold, the nature of “From the Edge” — and who is involved — seems to suggest as much.
That guy climbing the Sphere the other day (being filmed by a helicopter) was apparently Alex Honnold.pic.twitter.com/25k3CsgoqK
The project features Honnold and other world-class athletes: free diver Alenka Artnik, skier Markus Eder, BASE jumper Katie Hansen Lajeunesse and surfer Kai Lenny. It’s directed by E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who directed the documentary “Free Solo,” a deep dive on Honnold and his mission to become the first person to climb El Capitan without ropes or other safety gear.
The five “From the Edge” athletes will be “captured on location by Big Sky, Sphere Entertainment’s proprietary camera system developed to capture images at the scale and fidelity necessary for Sphere’s display,” according toSphere’s website, with filming underway in Jordan, Dubai, Switzerland, the Bahamas, Austin, Maui and Las Vegas.
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FILE: Rock climber Alex Honnold, famed for his free solo ascents of El Capitan, speaks at Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Oct. 26, 2025.
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