Alex Honnold: “I hardly ever do anything badass”

Alex Honnold has been getting a lot of attention lately, likely related to that TV show you might have seen him on. This recent interview he did with Trails Edge has several interesting nuggets including this one about what his life is like most days:

All I do is live my normal life and do my normal thing. I go out everyday and go climbing. People see a very cherry-picked thing, they don’t see the tons of days I go out there and totally suck.
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I hardly ever do anything badass. It’s just that when I do, it all happens on film. That’s the thing about climbing: at any level you’re always pushing yourself.
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So everybody, no matter how good they are, always feels like they suck because they’re always on some harder and harder project.

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5 Responses to Alex Honnold: “I hardly ever do anything badass”

  1. Andrew Jylkka October 18, 2011 at 9:39 am #

    And that’s what I love about climbing: Everybody sucks on their own level.  I can’t remember who said that, but they’re so right.

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  2. Dan d October 18, 2011 at 10:05 am #

    I was recently diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and i think it’s likely he has it also. I don’t see it as a disorder myself, but it certainly leads one to do things which others percieve as crazy

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    • TheDanDan October 18, 2011 at 10:21 am #

      What the hell? There is absolutely nothing in any interview or video of him that suggests he is bipolar. He seems like a totally normal, levelheaded and mellow dude with an unusual ability to not freak out when climbing high off the ground with no rope.

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  3. Dog October 18, 2011 at 12:03 pm #

    I’d be willing ot bet the bipolar comment was a joke.

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  4. Anonymous October 18, 2011 at 3:05 pm #

    Ha!  Well, I NEVER do anything bad ass, nor ever will.  If I did just one of his many bad ass ascents, I would rest content for the rest of my climbing career!

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