Kílian Jornet
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
somehow you find resources in different ways.
That's how a parent can lift so much heavier weight than he or she would thought if their child is in danger.
How in life-threatening situations we are able to develop strength or endurance in a way that we are not
thinking of being capable.
The limit is something we don't want to reach because it's probably death after that.
And it's a very fine line.
I wasn't scared.
I was alert, I would say.
I...
I think it's important to be afraid many times.
Then I say, okay, the conditions, they don't look right, or I don't feel ready for that, and I turn around.
I think it's very important to listen to the fear.
But when these situations come, like, I try to be as calm and just, like, accepting it.
Of course, like, it's a lot of adrenaline and it's a lot of tension going on, but to leave all the... all the panic because that's only, like...
making me take bad decisions.
And the same comes from euphoria.
Another time I was going up to a summit and I was climbing and I was feeling like super strong and super good.
And I was like doing things that technically were at my limit and I was surpassing all the dangers.
And I came to the summit and I felt like superhuman.
I felt like, wow, that I feel incredible.