Alex Honnold

A lot of opportunity for climbing, more than most sports.

And I think actually the other big thing with climbing is that in so many other sports, like I think ball sports, NBA, NFL, baseball, whatever, it's kind of like if you don't make the team, then you're done playing forever.

Like you'll literally never play football again if you're not a professional football player.

Whereas with climbing, even if you're not playing at the highest level, you can still go climb all the time and you can still do cool climbs.

You can still do things that matter.

You can help teach, you can do whatever.

And so you can kind of like stay in the game much, much longer.

Well, more that there weren't smartphones, there weren't cameras, you know, it's like, it's not even about the social, it's about the whether or not you can record it easily.

I mean, personally, I'm way into it.

I mean, I was a kid that got into climbing, into climbing gym, and it's changed my life for the better.

You know, like I love climbing.

I think it's great.

you know, I can certainly see the sort of commercial influx from the Olympics or sort of like more mainstream adoption of climbing, but that's kind of great.

Cause I mean, most of my friends are sort of climbing industry adjacent professionals in some ways, you know, like they make, they're like coaches or dietitians or setters.

Like they, they make the climbs that people climb on.

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And so basically the bigger the industry gets, the more people like that can make a living doing the thing that they love to do, even if they're not necessarily sponsored professionals at the highest level.

So I'm kind of like, you know, a broadening industry is kind of good for everybody.

And mostly, I mean, climbing is awesome.

Like if people enjoy, you know, it's like, why not get into climbing?