Free Solo: Alex Honnold
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This is a great watch.
I am a pretty adventurous guy, moved to Colorado to do more outdoors, 'on the edge stuff'.
When I watched what this guy does I couldn't sleep for a week. Infinitely more courage than I could ever hope to have.
His brain is literally not wired the same as your average Joe
We visited some friends in CO and watched this with them a while back. I get vertigo when looking over edges and had a ton of "pucker" moments watching it, but holy crap it was amazing.
I've played on some climbing walls for bouldering etc before i was fat, and it's ridiculous that at like 1000ft off the ground the size of some of his toe holds or "crimps" are like just the tip of a finger or two... As many have mentioned, he's definitely not wired like the rest of us.
I've played on some climbing walls for bouldering etc before i was fat, and it's ridiculous that at like 1000ft off the ground the size of some of his toe holds or "crimps" are like just the tip of a finger or two... As many have mentioned, he's definitely not wired like the rest of us.
One of my friends in LA has actually bouldered with him at a climbing gym out there. Completely random occurrence, but he was apparently super nice and normal in person - he even spotted my friend and chatted for 45 minutes after they were done climbing. Always nice to hear about such humility from "famous" people.
Just put me on the list of people who think you should watch this. Watching someone with 100% devotion to something so dangerous is fascinating.
There are a lot of people who use the phrase “worth dying for”, this might be the only time I’ve believed it.
There are a lot of people who use the phrase “worth dying for”, this might be the only time I’ve believed it.
Not going to lie, seeing this thread get bumped stressed me out. I figured he fell and died. I'll have to check this new show out. Love everything Honnold does.
Anyone interested in this should check out The Alpinist. Honnold appears in it talking about the guy who the film is about.
Absolutely unreal documentary.
Absolutely unreal documentary.
The Dawn Wall mentioned in that trailer was phenomenal as well.
He is an interesting dude. My wife wants to watch this live. I personally can't handle watching stuff like this live because of my "fear of falling from that height" as he puts it (instead of fear of heights).
