Alex Honnold

Like saying easier than El Cap, it doesn't, you know, El Cap was like a 10 year life project that I did an absolute secrecy.

I did on my terms on the correct day after years of effort, I had failed attempts.

I had, you know what I mean?

Like El Cap was like an all consuming life project for years.

Kind of like obviously you can't do that for live TV.

It's like you just can't put – anyway.

But this was very much in my sweet spot where you're like, oh, it's hard enough that it's hard.

Like it's cool.

You know, like it's fun.

It's interesting.

The climate is engaging.

It's, you know, gave me something to train for for months.

It's like it's super fun.

But it's not, you know, it's not like the absolute limit of what I can do because you just can't do that on live TV.

I mean, if nothing else, I was climbing the Southeast Arrette because it gets good morning light and it looks beautiful and it's like great for filming.

But if I was trying to do the absolute most cutting edge climb I could do, I'd be climbing the Northwest Arrette because it'd be full shade because it'd be good, better conditions, you know, be colder.

Like you just don't want to be in the sun.

It makes your skin, you know, it makes you hot and stuff.

And so, you know, just things like that.

You're like, well, if you're doing it for TV and you're trying to broadcast it, then you want it to look good.