Kílian Jornet

I remember when I was

crossing in the Pyrenees and in the Alps in the last years, I had a lot of episodes of deja vus.

And deja vus, they lasted for a very long time.

And I remember one time climbing in the Himalayas.

I was completely without any nutrition.

I had not been drinking or eating anything for more than 30 hours.

And I was at 1,200 meters.

I was in the middle of a storm, and I was hallucinating.

I had a vision of a second person that was following me, and I couldn't see what was this person.

I knew that it was an hallucination, but I somehow

needed to save this person.

I felt very responsible of this person.

I'm happy that I had this hallucination because somehow like having the responsibility to save this person, I didn't give up and I survived that day that if not, probably I would be dead in the mountain.

So like sometimes it feels that it's our unconsciousness that it's finding tools to keep us like moving, to keep us alive.

Some people would say it was a miracle.

Yeah, you could say it's a miracle.

You could say that it's just that when your rationale is not working anymore, that your unconsciousness is taking over and acting for you.

So you can call it whatever, but then there are some ways that we have to keep going and that normally in our daily life we are not able to activate.

I mean, if it's a very demanding or very technical route, then it's really like you are just thinking about the next movement.

And it's just like, if I go this direction or this direction, if I do this move that way, and what's the danger in the next two steps?