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Alex Honnold’s FA Of A Gift From Wyoming (5.13) On Leaning Tower Part 1

Posted April 5, 2013 at 2:24 pm · Comments { 3 } ·
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Four Walls Freed In Zion In A Day For Caldwell & Honnold, Three Solos In A Day For Honnold

Four Walls Freed In Zion In A Day For Caldwell & Honnold, Three Solos In A Day For Honnold

Posted March 19, 2013 at 7:57 am · Comments { 0 } · Photo: Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell freeing Touchstone Wall as part of a huge day in Zion

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell team up for a huge day of free climbing in Zion after which Honnold does some scrambling…

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Renan Ozturk 2013 Cinematographer Reel

Posted March 16, 2013 at 8:47 am · Comments { 7 } ·
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High Contrast – Alex Honnold In Chile

Posted March 11, 2013 at 11:44 am · Comments { 6 } ·
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Alex Honnold On Joe Rogan’s Podcast [NSFW]

Posted January 31, 2013 at 9:11 am · Comments { 14 } ·
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Alex Honnold Interviewed On ClimbTalk Radio

Posted December 20, 2012 at 8:00 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Emanating from the Boulder bubble on the local AM station, ClimbTalk Radio has been on my radar since its inception, but I can’t say I’ve heard too many of the shows.  Since I don’t live in Boulder the only way to hear the show was to read co-host Dave McAllister‘s insane transcripts or to navigate the station’s maze-like website to download mp3 files of the episodes.  Lame1.

The lameness has subsided now that ClimbTalk is available as a podcast through iTunes or whatever your podcast client of choice happens to be2.  I’ve caught up on a few of the recent episodes, including the interview with Alex Honnold as he sat on a portaledge 8 pitches up El Cap and the group discussion with LT11’s Jon Glassberg and Jordan Shipman, Jamie Emerson and Adam Markert.

The Honnold conversation was funny, insightful and overall very entertaining.  Try not to have any food in your mouth when they discuss the finer points of “man spooning” on portaledges.  The group discussion was good and had a lot of promise, but host Mike Brooks’ penchant for talking over guests the entire show to repeatedly identify who was speaking marred the flow of the conversation quite a bit.

You can check out the full archives on the ClimbTalk website or subscribe via RSS or the podcast client of your choice.

  1.  That downloading the shows was so hard, not that I don’t live in Boulder.
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     Although that’s kind of lame too.
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  2.  I use Instacast on my iPhone ↩
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Courage & Heroism In Climbing

Posted December 4, 2012 at 8:34 am · Comments { 4 } ·

Alex Honnold in this lengthy profile by Esquire:

“No, I am [proud], I guess, but that’s what I do. I’m a climber. Everyone’s got their thing. I could never hit 30 free throws in a row, but a basketball player would think that was trivial.
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LeBron James doesn’t die if he misses, I tell him. Free soloing and free throws aren’t the same. One takes courage. It’s like his fans say on his comment threads: “It must be hard, climbing with balls that big”.

He grins. “The balls part is true. They are pretty freaking huge. But I wouldn’t say courage. Courage is doing something that you don’t want to do, like a soldier. I want to be halfway up a mountain. I think it’s awesome.”

I couldn’t agree more. To me words like courage or hero or brave have no real place when describing the actions of climbers.
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On the subject of free soloing, The Stone Mind has an insightful post today on this very topic:

…I admittedly feel a sadness at the thought of losing my friends and acquaintances. But the memento mori reminds us of our shared and universal fate. When we lose site of this, it becomes all to easy to imagine ourselves living forever, or that our success and wealth will somehow shield us from mortality. Death is the ultimate context, and we must live and act accordingly, whatever that means for each of us.
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