Alex Honnold

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2,584 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 14 Aug

Alex Honnold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But basically there's like all these steps you can take.
And so over a bunch of seasons, you know, I climbed El Cap like 60 times, different routes, all these different things.
And then eventually you're sort of like, oh, maybe I can start thinking about free soloing it, which is where the film Free Solo comes in.
And then eventually you do this thing.
But then people are like, well, aren't you scared?
And you're kind of like, well, I've spent 10 years building up on this thing.
Yeah.
I mean, the documentary Free Soul, I think, does a pretty good job of showing the direct preparation, like the training involved in doing that specific climb.
But it just doesn't show the...
like eight years before that, I guess, because the documentary was filmed over two years.
And I guess I've been going since 2006.
So it was nine years before that, that I've been going to Yosemite and I've been spending maybe three months a year climbing walls.
whole life that they put into doing the
Yeah, I mean, people watch some of those programs and they're like, he just walked up and did it.
And you're like, well, yeah, after 30 years of practice, I just walked up and did it.
But no, it's not like just walking up and doing it.
I mean, like I've literally been climbing five days a week for 30 years.
Like that's so much climbing.
Like I freaking love climbing and I climb a lot.
Oh, all the time.
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