Alex Honnold

This is why I'm saying climbing, you get scared a lot.

I was like that expedition we were climbing basically day on day off each day we would go climb one of these crazy spires and we'd have these experiences where I'd be like so scared and then the next day we would just sit in the tent because it's Antarctica it's like really cold you're in the cook tent and I would basically just spoon Nutella all day totally shell shocked like totally like just completely traumatized and then you'd be like rested enough and you'd go out the next day and do it again and we just did like day on day off of like full trauma fear for the whole trip and then we climbed everything in the range it was amazing it was an incredible trip

Yeah, I was so scared the whole time.

Like people talk about breath work and... Yeah, take some deep breaths, try to compose yourself.

I mean, I try to stay rational.

You know, like, am I in danger?

Because sometimes, like in this case in Antarctica, I am actually in danger.

Like if I fall, I could die.

But oftentimes you feel you get those feelings of fear and you're not actually in danger.

You just it's your mind running away from you.

And so sometimes you can sort of rationally rein in a little bit where you're like, no, I am safe.

The protection will hold me.

The rope is, you know, my gear is good.

And then you just take a deep breath and you just carry on.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, of course.

Yeah, I mean, you have to understand what the consequences would be.

Because, I mean, that type of visualization is also how you can know when you're safe.

Because, like, if you have a rope and gear and you're trying to visualize, like, if I fall, am I going to hit the ground or is the gear going to catch me before I hit the ground?

I mean, there are often situations like that where you're like.