Health Alex Honnold

[Bunk Moreland]

What do you all think of this guy?

If you’re not familiar with him, spend 10 mins on YouTube.

What he does is extremely impressive... if what he does is a sport, then he’s got to be the best sportsman on the planet by some margin. Nobody takes their life into heir hands like that and never ever gets it wrong.

He has the ultimate in mindfulness, he controls absolutely everything and has trained himself to a complete ignorance or management of fear.

Not having the impact of fear has allowed him to accomplish incredible things, but surely it’ll be his undoing too? Fear is an emotion we have for a reason.

I mean seriously... he’s gonna die doing this if he keeps it up, yes? Nobody can never, ever make the slightest single mistake. He doesn’t seem to think he has a death wish, but in some level he must.

 

[Procrastinator35]

He did thorough research for it though, for some 10 years prior, of every single nick & cranny on his preferred route of that El Capitan Face of Yosemite Mountain.

Still, a 4 hour free-solo climb requires tremendous energy & concentration......A Phenomenal achievement.

He says he still feels fear & has panicked before, but that his research here was absolutely thorough & flawless.....He had every move already memorised in his head before-hand....Funnily enough, Kevin Bartlett says he use to imagine game-day scenarios prior to the game also & that it was almost magical how they'd come true so often for him.

Some kids have no fear of climbing as they haven't learnt to self-doubt as yet.....There is a definitive thrill & exhilaration that you just don't get doing anything else.

His thumbs are extremely elongated & angular & the gap between them & his fore-finger is quite pronounced.....He is also of a very gaunt build, which is perfect for free-holding your way up a mountain.....He must have tremendous balance & be phenomenally fit.

 

[perthblue]

never heard of him, didn't look him up, but if he wants to fight me i'll smash him ay

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Never heard of him.

 

[revo333]

Not t

if what he does is a sport, then he’s got to be the best sportsman on the planet by some margin.

Does he compete against someone?

Is there a time limit?

Athlete might be a better word to describe him.

 

[Scotland]

Seen a few of his films on the Banff Mountain Film Festival Radical Reels Tour.

Comes across as a bit of a bellend but what he can do is incredible. I have no real appreciation of climbing other than having been to Yosemite and seen the faces he's free climbed and gone 'ya ****en what?' but the bloke is a freak. The climbs alone are amazing feats but doing everything ropeless is nuts.

I like the fact that experts have actually studied his brain to see if he's all there and I like the fact that even though he's a megastar in the niche world of climbing that he is still an introverted weirdo that just does things he wants to. Most people like him (well as close to him as you can get) are dressed head to toe in Red Bull gear and spending most of their time doing unsubtle product placement. But he is happy to drive around in a piece of shit van climbing faces that people say you can't climb.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Not t


Does he compete against someone?

Is there a time limit?

Athlete might be a better word to describe him.

He's the only person in history - out of so many who have tried before him - to successfully free climb the face of El Capitan on Yosemite.....So, Yes.

Rock climbing is a definitive sports nowadays.

https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-rock-climbing-a-sport

 

[Procrastinator35]

 

[Procrastinator35]

 

[Hawk Dork]

never heard of him, didn't look him up, but if he wants to fight me i'll smash him ay

Ill back you up

 

[The Dice Man]

That is mad! How does he get down?

 

[Procrastinator35]

That is mad! How does he get down?

The same way he got up I reckon.

The sheer scale of those drops on his El Capitan Climb were insaaaane.....The kid has nerves of steel.

 

[The Dice Man]

The same way he got up I reckon.

The sheer scale of those drops on his El Capitan Climb were insaaaane.....The kid has nerves of steel.

Surely it’s even harder to get down.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Surely it’s even harder to get down.

I suppose he could ring for a helicopter.....That'd be take-away, not delivery of course.

The crags in that rock-face would provide for ample ways of descent you'd reckon.....After Yosemite, a piece of cake I'd of thought.

He obviously delights in living on the edge.

 

[Hawk Dork]

He obviously pays for a chopper to film him it will also be picking him up

 

[Procrastinator35]

He obviously pays for a chopper to film him it will also be picking him up

I doubt he has to pay for it, when he's the subject of so much interest for National Geographic.

 

[Hawk Dork]

I doubt he has to pay for it, when he's the subject of so much interest for National Geographic.

Either way it will be there to transport their asset

 

[Procrastinator35]

Either way it will be there to transport their asset

The asset who lives out of a van.....The kid is a free-spirit in every sense of the word, in it's purest form.

 

[Hawk Dork]

The asset who lives out of a van.....The kid is a free-spirit in every sense of the word, in it's purest form.

cheap talent, more profit

probably like the Sco Mo bus or American pickers its all a facade to fool the punters

 

[Procrastinator35]

cheap talent, more profit

That is such a crony-capitalist, materialist way of looking at it.

You can't manufacture what this lad has.

 

[Hawk Dork]

That is such a crony-capitalist, materialist way of looking at it.

You can't manufacture what this lad has.

worth its weight in gold
just market the shit out of it and hope he doesnt die until his popularity is waining then its merch and tributes and hopefully a hollywoood block buster

 

[Procrastinator35]

worth its weight in gold
just market the shit out of it and hope he doesnt die until his popularity is waining then its merch and tributes and hopefully a hollywoood block buster

The cynicism is just dripping off you now.

The kid is doing what makes him happy & gives him a sense of fulfilment.....Good on him.

 

[Hawk Dork]

The cynicism is just dripping off you now.

The kid is doing what makes him happy & gives him a sense of fulfilment.....Good on him.

sorry cant help it having some fun

but thats what the marketing department at National Geographic likes too

 

[Procrastinator35]

sorry cant help it having some fun

but thats what the marketing department at National Geographic likes too

I got the gist of your marketing perspectives.

Still....There's no other human in the world that can do what this lad can.....He has quite a remarkable gift & talent.

He also reminds me of a sense of my own childhood.....That in itself is a gift.

 

[Hawk Dork]

I got the gist of your marketing perspectives.

Still....There's no other human in the world that can do what this lad can.....He has quite a remarkable gift & talent.

He also reminds me of a sense of my own childhood.....That in itself is a gift.

Im not doubting his talents or his marketability someones making a fortune I hope he is getting a cut because its his arse on the rock