El Capitan, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Alex Honnold 17Peter Levine 1Naveen Rao 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where El Capitan comes up
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 13:57 Naveen Rao Like, look at an athlete, you know, um, you know, Alex Honnold climbed, uh, uh, El Capitan, right?
The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo
- ▶ 3:41 Alex Honnold Like, the whole film builds towards El Cap, but over the course of the two years that we were filming, I did, uh, maybe six or seven free solos that had never been done before, that were sort of cutting edge, that were, you know, like,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Alex Honnold I mean, that's the beauty of, of El Cap and, you know, and our public lands more generally is that, you know, we all own the same parks. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:20 Alex Honnold You know, if I, you know, for many, many years, uh, 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… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:39 Alex Honnold Well, it's actually not so much the point on the actual climb, like on my actual free solo of El Cap, it wasn't that there were certain points along the way, like camps on a mountain, but there are definitely steps in the process, and I,…
- ▶ 15:56 Alex Honnold Well, so the first ascent of El Cap was done over 49 days, I think. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:13 Alex Honnold Uh, but that's kind of natural, you know, that if you're spending that much time with people, you know, it chafes on you a little bit, but when, but when it came time for the actual solos, like all the, you know, I was mentioning earlier,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:09 Peter Levine Uh, well-being of the world, and it's as impressive, you know, as the El Cap climb, but I just want to say that when I met you and learned about that, that's, uh, super inspirational, and so I think we should all take that to heart.