The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Alex Honnold embodies The Pioneer by choosing terrain where no template exists. Free-solo climbing demands that he lead himself first, converting fear into preparation and preparation into calm at the edge of the possible.
“I don't know, I'd have to think about it a lot because, I mean, particularly with bowling, it's sort of, it's interesting. So adults are more prone to injury than kids to some extent, and especially with something like bouldering, where it's really heavy on fingers.”
“No, I mean, no, skydiving is not dangerous. When you're learning out of the plane, like it's not sketchy at all, but mostly I was like, I just don't like this. I don't want to devote the energy to learning how to do this. And I sort of realized how much it would take for me to feel comfortable doing that.”
“I mean, Jimmy's never been the best free client. Like, you know, I mean, he's not doing one arm pullups on small edges and he's not like climbing the hardest sport routes, but he's always been able to get to the top of big walls and then been able to do that in the mountains, you know, with ice and snow and bad conditions.”
“No, there was an ultimate solo thing that got pitched me once, and I was like, dude, you can't just take random people off the street and train them how to solo for six weeks and then just set them off of a big wall. It's like, you know, I was like, you may as well just have gladiators fighting lions in the pit.”
The Diary of a CEO: “The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!”
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