Alex Honnold

regretting all the things you didn't do totally I mean I think that that actually that exact mindset really helped inform my whole climbing journey in a way is like my father died when when I was 19 and he died of a heart attack unexpectedly just freak thing running through an airport at age 55 and you know and I think for a young for a teenager that makes an impression where you're sort of like oh like this could end at any moment and actually in both my grandfathers had just died like at roughly the same time so I think for an impressionable you know

teen, you're sort of like, oh, everybody dies.

Like, do you get to do all the things that you want to do before you go?

And, and I think my father, my father was a community college professor taught language and, uh,

You know, he ostensibly lived a risk-free life, you know, like relatively sedentary.

I mean, he traveled widely.

He was great.

But by any risk perception thing, you'd be like, oh, he's a professor.

Like, he's fine.

And yet he still died young and probably would have preferred to do a lot of other things before he went.

I'm sort of like, you know, it's just a reminder that you got to do all those things.

Yeah, no, I totally agree with that.

I mean, and you say we know that, but I actually think that we don't talk about that enough.

You know what I mean?

I think most people live with a little too much open-ended because nobody wants to talk about death.

Nobody wants to talk about, you know, like the consequences of like, because people think it's morbid or it's just not.

The thing is like, we're all going to freaking die.

It's like, are we going to be proud of what we did before we died?

I don't know.

I mean, yeah, we'll see.