Alex Honnold

Obviously, no one's complaining.

No one is pressuring me.

But at the same time, you don't want to bail.

It's pretty embarrassing if you tell someone you're going to do something and then you just can't do it.

Yeah, and they were all super positive and supportive, and it's all great, but you still can't help but feel that pressure.

You mean on the day of the actual solo?

No, on the day I was 100%.

Everything was perfect.

I knew exactly what to do.

It was all amazing.

But it took a really long time to get there.

It was like literally years of building up to it and then months of preparation and everything.

But no, on the day it was perfect.

Well, I think the aspiration is to be in that, you know, flow state, whatever you want to call it.

But

You know, actually, I think even in the film, there's some quotes from me saying autopilot and things like, you know, I'm aspiring to be on autopilot.

So I'm aspiring to not be thinking too much about it.

And that's, for me at least, why it required so much practice was to be able to just do something almost by rote, you know, through repetition, just to do the thing that you've practiced without...

having to think about it.

Cause I think once you start thinking about it too much, you're just more prone to not just make errors, but just like get to get caught up in your own mind.