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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

I have never drank.

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

And for a couple of years, I was just getting drunk a few times a year after the race season.

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

It was just ways to try to escape and to deal with the grieving.

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

Hmm.

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

I think I'm more afraid to die now with kids if something happens.

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

Like, I remember last year I was doing this crossing in the Alps and one day it was just... Yeah, the mountain was, like, falling apart.

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

Like, it was with the melting of permafrost.

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

The mountains are just collapsing a lot in the Alps.

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

So it's big blocks of rocks, like the size of a car, that they collapse at some time and...

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

just because the ice is melting inside the rocks.

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

And I was doing this crossing and for many hours I was exposed to those things.

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

Some rocks were falling very close to me and I ended up that day and I was feeling why I'm so stupid, like why I didn't turn around at the first point where I saw that that was going to happen.

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

And I was like feeling I really want to

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

Like it's not just to want to see my kids growing up, but I like see them and just like for them to have a father.

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

So I know that the activity that I'm doing, the activity like my wife is also doing mountaineering.

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

So it's activities that we do that they have the risks.

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

And yeah, I'm not afraid of the feeling of dying.

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

But I'm most afraid of that, of my kids losing a father.

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

Yeah, I don't know if it makes sense, but it's more like that what I feel.

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

Well, we are lucky.