Kílian Jornet
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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.
It's something that I'm aware.
And it's something that I try to be very analytical when I'm in the mountain to try to...
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.
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.
And it's something that I don't want to
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.
I can hear you grappling with this.
We were in Mont Blanc area in the Alps, and Stefan was first an idol.
When I started ski mountaineering, he was winning all the races.
It was something that I looked up to.
And then he became a friend.
We were living nearby, so we started to do some projects together.
And we had this project of crossing the Mont Blanc range in one push in skis.
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.
And we were walking on that ridge, and we didn't notice that we were walking on a cornice.
So it's this snow that with the wind, it forms in the ridges.
And because the wind is strong, the snow is compact, but it's not holding into the rock.
So we were walking there and the snow break in between our feet.
So he fell like 600 meters and I was in the other side and I stayed on