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Alex Honnold

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  1. “She's lived in Portland since she went to college there, and she's vegan, has never owned a car. She's like ultra earth thirsty. And she basically does outdoor participation stuff with kids. And it's kind of like, I don't even know, she's basically getting at risk. It's like a work program for at-risk youth or sort of, I don't know, it's like a whole thing. But over the years, she's also been like a middle school teacher, and she's done bike programs with kids and all kinds of wholesome things that make the community better.”

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  2. “Of their Lego career. No, I mean, I think I had a few just epic forts and really cool pirate ships and things. No, but I never constructed anything that was the culmination of my Lego career. I don't know. The thing is, I think I took almost as much pleasure in destroying the things afterwards, you know, because you create this elaborate city and then my sister and I would take like a golf ball or something and just destroy it and be like, oh, starting over, it's more of the process of building it. It was so fun.”

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  3. “Timelines here, but I don't know when I first started getting Legos, but probably when I was really small and then up until being a teenager, basically I had a ton of Legos.”

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  4. “I mean, basically, one of my uncles was civil engineer. I was just like, that's cool. And I loved building things and the idea of building bridges or big projects like that. I mean, it's appealing, you know, the idea of constructing something cool”

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  5. “I mean, as a kid, I thought I was going to become an engineer or something. I just thought I would have some normal job. I mean, when I was growing up, there really wasn't a professional climbing scene. Like, you couldn't really be a professional climber because the whole climbing industry hadn't really taken off and there weren't so many gyms. And it was like a different world. So I never thought that I was going to be a climber. I just thought that I'd have some random job.”

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  6. “I don't know. I mean, I think it might just be one of those things that I sort of naturally gravitated towards the thing that suits me, but I don't know. I mean, I think part of it is just that I've always loved climbing. I like doing a lot of rock climbing. And so I've always been attracted to high volume. I mean, I like to take the roots in my guidebook, you know, be like, oh, I climbed this and I climbed that. And so I like to climb a lot of roots. So it's just, yeah, I mean, I just like climbing a lot.”

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  7. “Yeah, it's unroped. An easy way to think of it is practice climbing. Basically, practicing movement. So you're climbing maybe three or four meters, maybe five max, but you're climbing small heights that you're comfortable falling off and landing on a pad. And you're basically just doing really hard physical moves. It's actually an easy way to compare it to the running world between sprinting and ultra running or something. Like the spectrum of climbing ranges from short and superintense to super, super long, but obviously low intensity. And I've always been more of the low intensity long distance type of guy, you know, where some people are just freakishly strong”

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  8. “Yeah, so climbing is pretty complicated because it ranges from, say, indoor bouldering, which is probably the simplest thing you can possibly do to alpine climbing, you know, climbing in the Himalaya or climbing huge walls around the world. And so that involves ice and mixed climbing where you're using ice tools and crampons and that kind of gear. Then there's, I mean, there's just a ton of categories.”

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  9. “He's never done any alpine climbing. He's never really done any big wallong. He's probably not super efficient logistically, but he's very, very strong. And I'm just not strong like that. But I do other types of climbing.”

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  10. “I still can't climb as hard. I'm just not as strong as he was after one year. I mean, there are plenty of things that I'm probably better at than he is. It's all relative technique and everything.”

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  11. “So, for example, I mean, this is kind of getting into the nitty gritty. No, that's what this is about. Okay, here we go. So Chris Arma is like basically been the best climber in the world for the last 20 years. And he was like my hero when I was a kid. He was one of the people I watch videos of. And I was like, that guy's the man. So he's from Santa Cruz. He started climbing when he was fourteen. And when he was fifteen, he put up a root called Nesser Evil outside of Las Vegas. And it was like the first 14C in the country. So it was the hardest route in America. And he did it after one year of climbing as a 15-year-old. I mean, that's a prodigy. I mean, he was like freakishly strong from the get-go. He could just always pull on really small edges. He had freakishly strong fingers. He could do one arm pullups off like anything. And you're like, that guy's gifted. I was not that guy. Actually this season I tried to do that rudeness or evil this winter and I totally failed about it. It's like I still couldn't do it. And I was like, goddamn, I've been climbing for 20 years. And I tried pretty hard, you know, and I still just can't climb as well as he did after one year.”

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  12. “Um no, not particularly. I mean, I loved climbing and I loved going in there and just playing all the time and climbing as much as I could, but I was never gifted in the way that a lot of people are gifted rock climbers. And I wasn't like winning the competitions or anything. I did some comps on and off throughout my teenage years. And I never won, you know. I was never super strong, but I just loved climbing all the time.”

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  13. “I honestly have no recollection. I was like an 11 year old. And then I probably went to the gym three to five times a week from 11 to 18. So it's like it all kind of blurs into one epic gym session”

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  14. “My parents just read about a gym opening in Sacramento and they thought I'd like it, and so they took me to a climbing gym. I mean, just like you were saying to Mission Cliffs, like there was a comparable gym in Sacramento, and so I went in there when I was maybe 11 and then just kept going all the time.”

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  15. “Yeah, they were both born in the US though. Mom was born to Polish immigrants, so I mean, she's born in the US and she's American. And her parents were actually born here too, but they were like 100% Polish, like fresh off the boat style.”

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