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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It's so cool.
Well, I think there's something elemental about climbing in the same way as like running or swimming.
It's like a basic movement thing that I think is quite enjoyable.
And I think that I also...
I think I have an innate love of like being on top of things, like, you know, being at the top.
Basically, I love big views.
I like the expansive, you know, I like air.
And so I like being up on stuff.
So I don't know.
I think it just hit a few sweet spots like that where I was like, oh, climbing is just so cool.
No, no.
And actually, even when I started rock climbing sort of full time, I still didn't think it could be a career because there just wasn't really professional climbing at that time.
It was like much smaller.
The industry is way smaller.
Climbing is way more fringe and like less of a thing.
So I said my father died the season before that.
And because my parents had just gotten divorced, he basically left his retirement to my sister and me.
And she used it to finish college.
I just put it into bonds and was living off like $300 a month or whatever, which kind of like worked.
You know, I was like living in a car.
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