Alex Honnold

It's just a correlation.

Because grip strength is just a proxy for all – it means that you use your body a lot and so therefore you're probably –

Like when I read those things about like if you have strong grip, it means this and this and this.

I'm like, no, if you have a strong grip, it means that you do stuff all the time.

And so as a result of doing stuff all the time, you're probably sharper than somebody who doesn't do stuff all the time.

And you're set.

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, I think.

You know, it's hard to say because there just aren't that many super old climbers.

And then a lot of the ones that come to mind, like sort of famous old climbers, you know, I mean, they die the same ways that everybody dies, you know, like cancer or heart disease or whatever, but like in their late 80s or whatever.

Mm-hmm.

No, I mean, I think climbing is a great way to age.

I mean, I have a bunch of friends who are sort of 50s and 60s who are very fit.

Like actually, I mean, it comes to mind, there's a friend of mine who's a philosophy professor at UNLV at the university, but he's incredibly jacked.

And I think he's 64 now.

I think he just became the oldest person to climb a certain grade, like 514, which is like kind of an elite rock climbing grade.

But I think he's maybe the oldest person to have done that now.

But he once told me in San Diego that he was at some hotel pool in middle America at some conference or something.

And some kid asked if he could touch his abs because he'd never seen.

He was like, are they real?