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Alex Honnold: “I hardly ever do anything badass”

Posted October 18, 2011 at 9:00 am · Comments { 5 } ·

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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Pure Imagination (5.14d) Repeated By Sasha DiGiulian

Posted October 17, 2011 at 8:25 am · Comments { 29 } · Photo: Sasha DiGiulian on Southern Smoke (5.14c) earlier this year

Sasha DiGiulian continues to amaze, this time repeating a 5.14d in the Red River Gorge

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New V14 In Finland By Nalle Hukkataival

Posted October 14, 2011 at 2:08 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Fresh off a trip to Font, Nalle Hukkataival returned to a project in his native Finland that he was finally able to dispatch after a prolonged effort:

It’s a great problem on bulletproof granite and climbs extremely well. Every move requires lots of body tension and shoulder strength. It climbs very differently than granite usually does and it is more like a sandstone problem style-wise. I decided to name it Circus Elephant Syndrome and for the grade I’m proposing hard 8B+.

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Ramon Julian Onsights 5.14c In Rifle

Posted October 13, 2011 at 11:14 am · Comments { 11 } ·

After a disappointing finish in the World Cup in Boulder, Ramon Julian Puigblanque made the drive west to Rifle for a short trip and things went just a little better for him there:

On day two, Julian onsighted Living in Fear (5.13d), shaking out in the worst possible places, and making the super-sustained testpiece look like 5.10, according to witnesses. After onsighting Living, Julian returned to the Wicked Cave, and surprised himself by onsighting The Crew (5.14c), one of the hardest routes in the canyon. The performance surprised even Julian, who said that it was a true “a muerte” fight to the end. Some of the hardest moves on the route are right at the top, and are said to be especially hard if you’re short.

Rock & Ice has the rest of the details.

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