El Capitan

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 3, 2020 by Alex Honnold · said 19 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Insight
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…”
Alex Honnold Feb 3, 2020 ▶ 11:20 The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Honnold Identified Eight Problem Sections Before Free Soloing El Capitan
“When I showed up in Yosemite to start working on the potential free solo, there were eight sections of the route that, that were big question marks for me”
Alex Honnold Feb 3, 2020 ▶ 13:58 The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Honnold climbed previously unclimbed variations during his El Capitan free solo
“A few of the parts that I climbed had never been climbed by anybody before, because they just, ah, are off the normal climbing, like, they're not where you would normally go with a rope”
Alex Honnold Feb 3, 2020 ▶ 14:36 The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
Feb 3, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Honnold: Free Soloing El Capitan Took Four Hours After Months of Preparation
“The actual climb all went pretty smoothly. It's just four hours of climbing, but, you know, it's freaking months and months to get there.”
Alex Honnold Feb 3, 2020 ▶ 15:40 The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
Feb 3, 2020
Assertion Supported
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 …”
Alex Honnold Feb 3, 2020 ▶ 5:19 The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
Feb 3, 2020
Assertion Supported
Honnold: Setting the sub-two-hour speed record on El Capitan
“And then partner and I last summer did two hours, which is the speed record on the wall but we were climbing together with a rope and equipment and using all kinds of specific strategies to move quickly.”
Alex Honnold Feb 3, 2020 ▶ 16:13 The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
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