Kílian Jornet

I feel that I can do anything.

And the euphoria was there.

And the euphoria is as dangerous as the fear, I would say, because then

You are kind of blind, and it's important to... It's very anticlimactic, I think, mountaineering, because you are doing something that is very extreme on the emotional side, because you are sometimes very close to death.

You climb a summit and you just want to be there, super excited, and your reason is saying, just...

breathe and be calm and not think that you are strong, just like be reasonable.

So it's, yeah, probably it's kind of one of the most exciting sports that exists because you are able to live and to view so many exciting things.

At the same time, it's very anticlimactic because you are not able to enjoy it at that point.

You enjoy back home when it's already past.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think, like, I'm not a religious person, but I would say the climbing mountains, it's a sort of meditation on that aspect that you are often very present on the moment, like on thinking, okay, you cannot think.

It's really like you are focusing on the present and

And it's moments where the past and the future don't exist because you need to focus so much on the movement that you are executing that nothing else exists and that sort of meditation.

And yeah, I always joke that I'm not a smart person.

I cannot do meditation like normally.

I need to climb mountains and expose myself to find the same peace that you can do probably just sitting and meditating.

Yeah, I have been to Tibet.

Yeah, exactly.

In terms of sport, it's kind of the same.

I mean, it's some things that you can't explain rationally.