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Alex Honnold

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first: 2016-05-17
most recent: 2016-05-17
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“I mean, when you just said it, I thought Elon Musk, but then I have no idea because I don't know, but I don't know that much about business, but I'm just like, that's red.”
2016-05-17 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #160: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope – Lessons from Alex Honnold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can slack line at like a low level. I can walk lines back and forth just because there are so many Slack lines in campgrounds and climbing areas and things. I definitely have done a fair amount of slack lining and I can do some really easy tricks and things. But no, I'm definitely not a slack liner and I've never done any high lines and I'm not into slack lining.”
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“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. And I was like, this is just dumb. I'm not into it. And then, as it turns out, you know, like one of my good friends and climate partners died wing suiting, and then last year, notably Dean Potter died wing suiting. And so, I mean, climbing has lost a lot of high-end climbers to wing suiting accidents. It's like, yeah, I mean, it is a very dangerous activity.”
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“No, I did my AFF, so I learned how to parachute out of a plane on the thought that I would maybe eventually learn how to base jump or something. And then I was basically just like, I'm not into this. I'm like, I don't think this is cool. I don't like it.”
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“I mean, I don't know much about it, but it does seem like it's one of the riskiest sports in the world. I mean, more people die doing that than virtually anything else. I mean, it kind of goes with wingsuiting or something. Know it's fair to say that it actually is quite risky because people do actually die all the time doing it.”
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“Think, I mean, don't people look at his big wave surf and be like, that guy's crazy. He has a death wish. Because I kind of do. I'm like, that stuff looks nice to me.”
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“I don't know. I mean, I think a lot of people, certainly online commentary, a lot of people think I have a death wish or have never experienced fear, like just don't care about my safety. I mean, the thing is that if you just watch YouTube videos, you get the impression that I just like walk up to a wall and climb it. And you sort of miss the 20 years of climbing culture that's behind it, you know, the fact that there's a huge history behind all these roots and I know a lot about them and I have tons of friends that have climbed them and I can like recite half the moves on them from memory. You know what I mean? Like there's a ton that goes into it that people don't see in a three-minute YouTube short. And yeah.”
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“Oh, I don't know. I was listening to bad religion. We listen metallically last night in the drive and Chavelle or Toole or random whatever.”
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“I'll do easy climbing to music for sure. I normally just have my phone in my pocket and we'll just blast it like, you know, stereosty. But that's only if I'm climbing something where there's nobody around because I think it's super annoying when you hike up to people on a trail with a boom box going because obviously it's like dimension their outdoor experience.”
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“Yeah, exactly. Actually, I've never done the paper soundtrack. But like Last Mohicans is a favorite. That's a great sound.”
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“Flying, I do a lot of soundtracks. It's like, so it's sort of classically type music, but said to Indiana Joe, say, or whatever.”
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“Are they specific in the airport and on the plane? I pretty much have noise canceling headphones on the whole time. I love it. I'll just like listen to soft music and read my book or work on my computer, do whatever, you know, just hang out. But I just love not having all the crazy bustly noise around me the whole time.”
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“I don't know. I don't think it's too much, but when I bought noise canceling headphones, I was like, this seems really indulgent, but it made my life so much better. I love traveling with noise canceling headphones. It's like my favorite possession, I think.”
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“I mean, if you're not psyched, you're not psyched. But I haven't had any clear or near misses where I decide not to climb something, and then there's a huge avalanche that sweeps the whole mountain and you're like, thank God I wasn't up there.”
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“I think pretty much any of the free solos that are backed off of and climbed down were probably all pretty good decisions. I mean, who's to say, I mean, maybe they all would have been fine and I would have just climbed to the top and had a nice day. But, you know, there's no point in second guessing that stuff.”
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“All that's pretty much in line with the way I look at risk. I mean, yeah, I mean, with the startup stuff, I wouldn't consider that particularly risky because obviously people make a lot of money off startups. It's just a matter of doing it well and like, you know, plan the stock market and things like that. People obviously make a lot of money. So it's not like a fundamentally risky activity. It's a matter of how you do it, how well you do it. And obviously I'm not in either of those worlds at all. I mean, for me, it probably would be dangerous because, you know, I'd be like, well, no, I have no money. But it's because that's not my thing. Like, I don't know anything about it”
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“Or at least having a plan that you're willing to stick to, and then not start to just get hog wild where you're like, well, this guy said that”
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“Isn't the thing with startups is that you're sort of willing to lose money on a certain number as long as some of them come out.”
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“Well, it just feels like a certain, I guess I need to have a certain amount of reserve, I guess. You know, I need to feel like I can climb the root in a variety of conditions and have some extra in the tank just in case. If I can climb the root only by the narrowest of like razor thin margins, that's probably not good enough for free soling.”
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“I don't have a checklist, but I definitely have a degree of comfort that I need to feel on the route before I'm willing to solo it.”
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“You know, I mean, if there is a high level of risk, I mean, you should be feeling fear. I mean, fear is sort of that warning that, you know, like that there is real danger. And so if there is danger present, like, I mean, you should be feeling fear. And so, you know, and there are times when maybe you should just suppress that fear and go for it anyway. Maybe not. I don't know. But so with the free souling, typically if I'm feeling a lot of fear, then I just wait and prepare more or I don't know, do whatever it takes to mitigate that to like to feel comfortable and then do the clown when I feel comfortable.”
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“A good question. I generally climb hard roots in the absence of fear. I generally don't go up on them unless I feel comfortable and I don't have that fear yes. Though Yeah, though, I mean, it's important to sort of differentiate fear and risk and all the terms, I guess. Definitely.”
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“I don't know. That's an interesting question because obviously I spent a ton of time thinking about risk, but I just don't have like a clear-cut metrics for this. And because with the climbing so much of it comes down to a feeling of I feel a lot of fear when I think about that, obviously it's not for me. Yeah, I don't know exactly. And I've never really had to evaluate business ventures and things.”
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“I don't know what the author would say in the thesis, but the things that I took away from it were. Well, I mean, basically, he's sort of envisioning different systems for like a more just kind of economics, you know, because, I mean, our current style of capitalism basically just concentrates wealth in the hands of the already wealthy. And that's kind of like by definition the way interest rates work and stuff. If you have a lot, you'll just continue to make a lot. And that's not a fundamentally fair system because if you don't have anything, you continue having nothing. But if you already have more than you need, you just get more and more and more. And that's just not the way the world should work, I don't think. Or at least I don't. So one of the ideas that he throws out in the book, which I found totally understanding, was like negative interest rates. So if you have a lot, it basically just like slowly dwindles away unless you're actively using it for things like investing it into things.”
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“I mean, in the last several years, I mean, some of the most noteworthy books I've read, I guess, like a people's history of the U.S., the Howard Zen book, totally changed the way I look at politics. And then in the same way, I read a book recently called Sacred Economics that totally changed the way I looked at economics.”
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“For like rural communities. I mean, I've been supporting a group that does that kind of work in Africa, which makes sense because folks have no access to energy. I've also been supporting grid alternatives here in the States, which does home PV systems for low-income families. Basically, it's just a way to help folks that need some help. And it helps the environment, obviously.”
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“I don't know. I mean, I think I would predict. I don't know. I'm sort of 50-50 between natural causes, just like dying of old age at some point, or climbing accident in the grander scheme of not necessarily falling to my death, which is what people think with the free soling, but just the random stuff, like, you know, repelling in the mountains or like being swept by an avalanche or like being hit by a random rock because there's a lot of just like random chance, or not a lot, but there is random chance involved with climbing. And just the fact that I am out climbing all the time, like it wouldn't be shocking if some random thing just happened to me like that. Though, I mean, that's kind of the price price to play. You know, like if you're going to be in those places, like there is just a random risk associated with it. So yeah, I mean, I think, and then the cause I would devote it to, I don't know, some probably environment, I mean, basically the stuff that I'm supporting through my foundation, which is, you know, any kind of environmental project that improves standard of living, which is mostly been off-grid solar projects or like energy access and stuff.”
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“I was fairly close to my dad. I mean, we weren't super close in talking about things and having deep chats, but he definitely Infested a ton of time in me. He took me to the climbing gym all the time. He would drive me all over the state to competitions. He would take me camping, take me outside. We would be doing family camping trips in the mountains and stuff. So, I mean, he definitely put a ton of energy into me.”
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“I didn't decide to just drop out of Berkeley. It was more that I wasn't really happy there. And then my first year at Berkeley, I happened to get second at the Nationals. And so I got invited to the Youth World Cup, which was during what would have been my second fall semester. And so I decided to take the semester off and then go do youth worlds and then travel a bit and climb and do whatever. And also my father happened to die the summer after freshman year, and he was part of the pressure for going to school. Not really pressure, but he just sort of like expected the kids to go to college type thing. And then when he died, it also left life insurance money for my sister and I to finish school. And so, you know, that sort of allowed me to not go back to school. And so, yeah. And so just kind of a combination of events just led me to take the semester off and then I just like, you know, I've just taken the next ten or no, like 20 semesters off since then.”
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“I haven't really had that many jobs. I mean, I worked at the climbing gym as a kid, just, you know, cleaning the bathrooms and doing summer camp stuff with kids. And then I worked doing night security at Berkeley for a semester that I was there. I mean, I was only at Berkeley for a year. And so for my second semester there, I was doing night security. I was basically just like walking around campus at night getting paid to look at buildings.”
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“You know, in retrospect, I probably should have spent a little bit more time. And so why I got so scared was I got up to a certain sequence and I basically didn't want to trust a specific foothold and I was like, oh, this feels like my foot's going to slip and I don't want to fall. And then I tried to use some other feet, but I was like, oh, this doesn't these are worse. And, you know, so you're standing there hesitating being like, what should I do? What should I do? And then you start to get all gripped. Like, oh God, what if I can't figure it out? And like you're obviously getting more and more tired as you stand there, your calves are getting pumped. And, you know, yeah, it's just traumatizing.”
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“So, that particular half dome free solo, I actually hadn't rehearsed it that much, really. I'd sort of intentionally chosen not to rehearse the root very much because I was like, oh, that's going to take the adventure out of it. I want to just go up there and do it, which in retrospect wasn't the best idea. But so, yeah, on Halftome, I didn't, I hadn't memorized.”
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“That's not that big a thing, but the actual experience up higher, it was like one of those things where they caught this moment on film and it kind of went well with the voiceover. They're like, oh, perfect. Yeah, exactly. And so it made for a great film and it definitely shares the free solo experience pretty well. It was one of those things at first I was like, I was sort of annoyed that it's not the literal like this isn't what happened. But the thing is nobody's there when it actually happens. So then it does share the experience pretty well.”
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“Okay, so the video clip that he's referring to, I'm actually free soloing the face of Half Dome, which is a different wall. Yep. And that's actually complicated because it shows me standing on this ledge on Halftome, like having a moment being really scared. But we shot that film like a year after my actual free solo. So I'd gone up there and solo it by myself and nobody around, which is kind of the point of free soloing normally. And then we'd gone back and filmed on it. And when we filmed on it, I walked out on that ledge and like had a moment where I was a little bit afraid and then sorted myself out, turned around and climbed back. But then they used the voiceover of me talking about the original experience when I'd actually been free soloing it the year before, where I had like a much more significant moment on a section a hundred feet higher, which is actually quite difficult climbing. Because walking across a ledge is never that scary. You know what I mean? Like in the grand scheme of rock climbing, like when you're standing on a ledge, like you're not scared, it just happened in that case because I was standing face out, which is like a little off balance and a little scary. And I was like, whoa, this isn't what I expected.”
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“No, so that's. Well, there are all kinds of encryption. I'm sure there's nothing. Yeah, just go on and I'll respond at the end.”
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“Yeah, or whatever, you know, there have been a couple routes where I've been like, especially when I was younger, when I was solving a root and I get up and all of a sudden I'm like, oh, I'm on a bolted face, but this root isn't supposed to have bolts. And then I'm like, oh no, I'm on the wrong route. And then you like look over and you see that the real root you're supposed to be on is like 100 meters to the right. And then you're like, I wonder what route I'm on. And then you're like, oh, I hope it's not hard. And then you're something like, and then you start pulling on the bolts, which is cheating. And then you're just like, whatever it takes to get off this wall, you know. And so you're like, pulling on bolts and stepping on bolts and like doing whatever just like get to the top. And then later you're like, oh, I wish I knew how to read the guidebook.”
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“But that's kind of a practical thing is that if you have people that are filming with you, it's like obviously you're doing something that you've rehearsed or you know a lot about or it's like it's a classic enough route that is worthy to film on. Like you have all those epic misadventures on things that aren't that well known that people aren't climbing all the time. But no, so I've had tons of experiences where especially when I was younger I didn't really know how to read topos. I love the little maps that show you like where a climbing route goes. So I'd look at it and be like, okay, I think I'm climbing that big corner and then I'd go up there and be like, this isn't even the right route. Like what the heck am I doing? And then I'd start questing way to the left or right being like, well, maybe if I traverse 200 feet that way, then I'll get to the real route. And then you're like, oh, God, what am I doing? And then it all starts to go south, you know?”
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“Yeah, exactly. But with climbing, it's like each move that you make upward is like a decision that you're going to continue going upward. You have to decide over and over. Like, I want to keep going. I want to keep going. I want to keep. And at a certain point, you're like, I don't really want to keep going. I think I want to go down. And then you're just like, mommy. You know, and then, yeah, I mean,”
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“Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's kind of the thing that hardly anybody sees that film is like, oh, I'm going to go do that. And then even if they do, once they start trying to do it, I mean, it is actually quite difficult to climb these walls. So it's not as if some kid can just wander up and do that. And then, and even if they are strong enough or well versed enough in climbing to climb a little bit, then they're also like, wow, this is really, really scary. I didn't expect it to be this scary. And then they just climb back down. So, I mean, you know, I've thought a little bit about influencing kids and like, you know, wondering if that's a bad thing, but in general, like you just don't really see copycat things. Like, you see it a lot more in gravity assisted sports or like action sports. So like kayaking or skiing or something where like anyone can just line up at the top of a cliff and be like, I'm going to huck this cliff and I'm going to stick it and it's going to be sick. And then once they sort of commit and start going, it's like they're going off the cliff one way or another.”
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“Yeah, well, so there are two things. One, I'm definitely not the first superstar or whatever, because there are a bunch of European climbers who are well known for solaring, who've, you know, come before me. And even in the US, somebody like John Backer was super well known in the 1970s, and he was on all kinds of TV programs. It might not have been sponsorship in the same way that we have today because the industry wasn't the same. But he was definitely on the evening news and all kinds of crazy things free soloing. So, I mean, I'm definitely not the first by any means. And it's interesting because, you know, I was obviously a kid who was influenced by that kind of stuff. But then I've gone through, you know, years and years of practice or whatever. I kind of feel like soling is a bit, I don't know, almost like self-regulating in a way because the thing is that anybody can watch a video and be like, I want to do that. But then as soon as they climb 15 or 20 feet off the ground, they start to have a very frank discussion with themselves like, do I really want to do this? You know, like it suddenly feels very scary.”
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“though he does have a ton of experience really I mean you know because he's just done so much of it he's been doing like a”
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“I bet Jimmy hasn't even heard any of the stuff he's recently been doing in the Rockies. It's like pretty crazy. Yeah, I mean, Yeah, it's like so crazy”
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“One of the interesting things with Mark Andre is that I don't know if there is video of most of the stuff he's doing. Yeah, I mean, he's just going out and doing all this crazy stuff. Just like it's pretty full on.”
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“I don't know. It just kind of blows my mind a bit. And it's funny because I actually don't ice climb or alpine climb at a high enough level to quite understand what he's doing even. So it's hard for me to probably appreciate just how hard it is. But then a lot of my friends who do climb at a very high level are like, whoa, that's messed up. I'm just like, yeah, respect. I kind of know.”
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“Yeah, though I've actually never done the whole extension stuff with hands. I don't have but to me antagonist muscles are more like doing pushups or random or tricep pulls or things to balance out your arms a bit since you do so much pulling like to be able to do some kind of pushing sometimes.”
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“That you think have merit? I don't think there's an easy answer to that kind of stuff. I mean, I had some elbow issues for a while. Now it's like eight or nine years ago or something, but I had sort of like chronic elbow pain on and off for almost a year. But then eventually it just sort of resolved. And I mean, I think the best way with that kind of stuff is sort of prevention, you know, like maintain antagonist muscles and just sort of like stay well balanced and everything. And if you start to feel achiness or pain coming on then to take the appropriate rest or maybe change your training to some extent or basically just not to let it become a big problem because I feel like all those overuse injuries like once they're a problem then it's like really hard to deal with.”
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“I mean, I try to still climb when I'm on the road. I mean, there are just so many gyms in different places that you can always do that. But if there's absolutely nothing, then maybe I'll run or I'll go hiking. It kind of depends on what opportunities there are. I mean, I'd rather go mountain biking than other things, or I'd rather go skiing if that's available. But, I mean, as long as I'm getting some kind of exercise, I mean, even like stand-up pad awarding or something, I'm like, well, at least I did something today.”
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“I always warm up pretty gently when I can. I mean, it depends on where I am. If I'm in a climbing gym, then I just warm up on a handful of easy routes and then start the harder ones later. I mean, for the last month and a half, I've been stretching like every morning and every night because of the back thing and because of how tight my hips and everything feel right now. So doing some stretching and some like light exercise to sort of warm up.”
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“I think there's definitely, you know, I can definitely see a point. Where I wouldn't continue pushing. I mean, there is always a what's next in climbing. And you can always try to improve in some way or go to new places or do first ascent. I mean, you know, there is always something new to be done in climbing. Though I can definitely see personally a point at which, you know, I'm like, okay, I'm satisfied. Like I've done what I need to do and we'll see kind of. Though I will say climbing more than most other professional sports has like quite a long career span kind of because of that because there's always more you can do with like trips and expeditions and first ascent and there's a really creative process to it. You can always like come up with interesting challenges and just sort of like do things that nobody's thought up before and so you know I mean you know they're professional climbers in their 50s that are still like getting after it like that”
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“I don't know. Yeah, maybe it's just a cycle of time. It's like sometimes you just feel useless, you know? But, I mean, in some ways, though, I embrace that as part of the process because you kind of have to feel like a worthless piece of poop in order to get motivated enough to go do something that makes you feel less useless But then ultimately that still doesn't make you feel any less useless. So then you just have to keep doing more.”
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