Alex Honnold
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's awesome.
Yeah, it's funny seeing the film.
It's really inspiring.
She was the first woman to do that route in a day, free in a day.
That route's like a harder version of the free rider, the thing that I free soloed in the film Free Solo.
But yeah, I mean, honestly, I think the film does a good job of not trying to portray it as anything more than it is.
I mean, it's a very difficult climbing achievement, but it's not
It doesn't need β it's not the hardest thing ever done.
It's not the first time that β but it's very hard.
And if you watch the film, you see what makes it meaningful is the level of effort that she puts into it.
It's like it's hard for her.
She's a great climber, and she puts a lot into it, a lot of herself into it, and eventually β I don't know.
You know, spoiler, but eventually overcomes and, like, manages to do this thing that's really hard for her.
And I think that's β which, in a lot of ways, I mean, that's climbing in a nutshell.
It's, like, none of it really matters because, like, even freestyling El Cap, I mean, you can walk around the back.
Like, you know, it's, like, why put the years of effort into climbing the face when you can walk around the back?
Like, all of climbing is relatively meaningless.
And so, ultimately, it's the effort that we put into it that β
that has value.
And so I think that's what the film Girl Climber does a really good job of.