Alex Honnold

It was all very stressful at the time.

For me, the thing is, is that if I'm going to go climb the wall, you know, I start climbing at 430 in the morning or five or something.

So that means some of my friends to get in position at the top of the wall or getting up at like one in the morning and then hiking to the top of a mountain with a heavy backpack.

And if you're asking a bunch of your buddies to go hiking at 1 in the morning, you better live up to your end of the thing.

If you say you're going to do something, you better actually do the thing because you're friends.

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