Alex Honnold

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

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb! · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

And so, I mean, I think the key for a kid is find the thing that doesn't feel like hard work.

I mean, yeah, I had like a healthy intimidation.

I mean, like my first season in Yosemite, the first time seeing El Cap as a climber, I was 19, and it looks impossible.

It looks completely insane.

I was like, that's so big.

But then, you know, within a couple seasons, you know, I climbed some bigger walls, learned how to climb, and then...

A friend and I had the sort of season goal, like we were going to climb Yosemite all season with the aspiration at the end to climb El Cap in a day.

So basically there was this long progression on El Cap specifically where it's like you go from just trying to get up it to trying to get up it faster to trying to get up it with just your hands and feet, still using protection.

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.

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