Alex Honnold
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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.
I stole my mom's minivan at the time.
I had like a couple hundred bucks a month.
And it was kind of enough to just like go to be a 19-year-old just like camping, you know.
No, that's my second one.
That's the Ford Econoline.
That's the first actual van that I bought.
I lived in that van for 10 years.