Alex Honnold

And so you're basically like rocking on your heels with, I don't know, like a 1,700-foot drop or something or 1,800-foot drop like straight down below you.

And so, you know, it's like pretty intense.

Anyway, and so I thought I was going to walk across it like that.

And I made it to the bulging part and was suddenly like, oh, my God, this isn't like this isn't for me.

And then managed to like shuffle back and change my strategy.

Is it like panic in your head?

It's not panic, but you're like, oh, oh, I made the wrong choice.

Like, this is bad.

This is bad.

You know, I mean, it's not like full like five alarm bell, like panic, panic.

But yeah, you're like, oh, I'm so screwed.

Yeah, that was like sliding down an icy couloir type thing.

It's a little different than like free falling off of a cliff.

That's like sliding down a mountain.

But yeah, I got totally messed up and yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I've, like, broken my arm several times as a kid falling off things.

And then with a rope as a climber, you take big falls, like, routinely, you know, when you have protection.

That's, like, part of the sport, basically.

I mean, it's certainly easy to visualize falling 700.