Alex Honnold
17 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 3, 2020 by Alex Honnold · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Honnold views feeling dread as a clear indicator of inadequate preparation
“For many, many years on my to-do list was, you know, solo El Cap, like amongst many other things I wanted to climb, but then I would drive into Yosemite, I'd look up at El Cap and be like, there is no way I'm soloing El Cap, like it looks completely insane, it…”
Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Honnold completed six groundbreaking free solos omitted from the documentary
“Over the course of the two years that we were filming, I did maybe six or seven free solos that had never been done before, that were sort of cutting edge, that were, you know, like, groundbreaking within the climbing community, but, you know, when they edited…”
Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Feb 3, 2020
Honnold: Rock climbing preparation lacks external time pressure and constraints
“The thing with climbing though is that you can just keep training. You can keep preparing. There's no time crunch. There's no pressure. There's nobody forcing me to do it one way or another. I was kind of able to work at my own pace and just keep working at it…”
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Feb 3, 2020 negative
Honnold: Ice climbing is too unpleasant and dangerous
“Well, I mean, no, I genuinely don't like ice climbing. It's cold. It's unpleasant. It's really painful. It's you know. Yeah, and it's dangerous. I mean, it is legitimately dangerous. It's that you have all these pointy tools, and you hit yourself with the poin…”
Feb 3, 2020
Honnold free soloed a 1,000-foot wall after aborting his El Capitan attempt
“Then was not in the film is then I got on my bicycle and I rode over to this other thousand foot wall that was actually the first thing I ever free solid as a kid, basically that got me sponsored. Like the reason I became professional climbers, a route called …”
Feb 3, 2020
Honnold: First climber to free solo all five Cathedral walls in one day
“The cathedrals, the mountains sort of on the south side of the valley, they're five. They're three big cathedrals and then two spires. But so it's like five giant walls. I free-solid all five of those in a day, which is the first time that had ever been done.”
Feb 3, 2020 negative
Honnold predicts Free Solo will not trigger a wave of reckless climbers
“No, no, I really don't actually. And that's a common question. I mean, obviously, you know, there's the possibility for that to happen. In general, though, I think that rock climbing is actually getting more risk averse than it used to be.”
Feb 3, 2020
Feb 3, 2020
Honnold: Donates one-third of income to environmental solar projects
“So I started donating a third of my income through the foundation to environmental projects, because I was like, this is still an absurd amount of wealth for me, you know, like, I don't need all this, like, I can give a third for sure, and so, when I started l…”
Feb 3, 2020