Alex Honnold

There are certain things like that where I'm sort of like, if I was starting over, if I was an 18-year-old who was trying to make it as a professional climber nowadays and had a higher level of skill than I do now and basically was trying to do this again, there are things like that that would be sort of like the obvious next-generation challenge.

Yeah.

Yeah, it'd probably take a bit under 24 hours probably.

What is your training regimen these days?

I just go rock climbing a lot.

Today I did a little workout in the hotel gym this morning.

Well, that's, I mean, I think like a stonemason just like grinding away their whole life.

wide fingers yeah my fingers have taken a lot of abuse in their time because I see you like putting them in between walls and stuff yeah crack climbing it's like you basically put your fingers into a crack and then you torque them so like the side to side pulling does sort of make your connective tissue bigger

Yeah, it hurts.

I was wondering when you're going uphill.

When you're doing it well with good technique, it's not that painful.

It depends on the type of rock.

But some rock is kind of sharp and kind of painful.

But, yeah, this goes back to strengthening your, what's the part called in your brain?

Anterior mid-singular cortex.

Yeah, exactly, that guy.

I mean, that's the thing is that even when done well, climbing, like, it hurts your fingers and toes.

You know, crack climbing where you're, like, jamming your toes into a crack and you're torquing them side to side and you're, like, wedging your fingers in.

I mean, when you're doing it well, it has a pleasant feel of safety to it because you can really lock into cracks and it feels comfortable and you feel like you're swimming.

You're like, this is beautiful.