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Kílian Jornet

👤 Speaker
350 total appearances

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The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

Yeah, I think it's... That's one that I'm still trying to figure out because I know that my risk tolerance is high.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

It's something that I'm aware.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And it's something that I try to be very analytical when I'm in the mountain to try to...

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

to analyze well the situation and to know not what I'm good at, but what I'm not good at, to see if I'm capable of doing something or not and to turn around.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

But sometimes it has been happening that I have been just continuing in situations where I knew that I was rationally not comfortable with it, but somehow I felt okay with it.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And it's something that I don't want to

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

experience much more because I know that in mountains, like a big part of surviving is like, but you cannot be relying on that all the time.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

I can hear you grappling with this.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

We were in Mont Blanc area in the Alps, and Stefan was first an idol.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

When I started ski mountaineering, he was winning all the races.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

It was something that I looked up to.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And then he became a friend.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

We were living nearby, so we started to do some projects together.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And we had this project of crossing the Mont Blanc range in one push in skis.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And we were like in the, before last summit, so we were almost finishing and it was like, we were happy, we were like just in the summit, like enjoying and like, it was some birds that they were flying around and we were just like, I remember like we were like smiling and laughing about where we were and how fun it was.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And we were walking on that ridge, and we didn't notice that we were walking on a cornice.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

So it's this snow that with the wind, it forms in the ridges.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

And because the wind is strong, the snow is compact, but it's not holding into the rock.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

So we were walking there and the snow break in between our feet.

The Daily
'The Interview': Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes

So he fell like 600 meters and I was in the other side and I stayed on