Imagine being by yourself in the dead center of a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without a rope to catch you if you fall. For professional rock climber Alex Honnold, this dizzying scene marked the culmination of a decade-long dream. In a hair-raising talk, he tells the story of how he summited Yosemite's El Capitan, completing one of the most dangerous free solo climbs ever.
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Mission Impossible 27
Bravo
*It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.*
I couldn’t agree more.
Nice, comma.
Is that a jojo reference?
lol+Brian McInnis
Congrats… it’s a very motivational story
**reads title**
I dont think i wanna know but im gonna watch
My thoughts exactly 😀
Nat geo just did a full length film about him and the climb. Its out now in most theaters of the U.S. called free solo. Check it out
Oh, i will climb 3,000 feet. Oh, i will climb 3,000 more. Just to be the one to get your love.
Anthony Ubaka Love it!
What? He didn’t climb this for peoples love. It’s a selfish pursuit
PantsB4Squares who said it was? I was in school and thought why not comment.
I’ve literally watched his climb all day and now this!! Sooo happy
literally ????
+luuke luketer yep! Something wrong??
+Lalhmingthanga Chhakchhuak lose the word ‘literally’ and what have you got ????
+luuke luketer O Great One, protector of the English language, master of all grammar Nazis, forgive this insolent human for what he had done for he has little mastery of the English language. I hope you do forgive him O Great One.
+Lalhmingthanga Chhakchhuak Your apology is accepted…….
Wow this was serious!!!!
Happy to see this brave young man being recognized as the best world solo climber! He is indeed a ”modest” wonder with great humor. Go Alex!
I bow down to you brother. You make us all a better species.
If he fell and died this video would be about always being safe
Yep. Just remember there’s a fine line between bravery and stupidity. Everyone calls it courageous until something goes horribly wrong, then everyone will chime in with “Of course he died. Why wouldn’t he climb with a rope?”
This is undoubtedly one of the greatest athletic achievements ever but I really hope he doesn’t continue to endanger his own life as if he has anything left to prove.
+LeBrons Hairline well put! That’s so true
+LeBrons Hairline but he’s not doing this to prove anything to us, if he’s going to continue climbing, it will be the same, he climbed El Cap to prove to himself he can do it. Thats the beauty of it, your mindset would have told him to stop after Half Dome… so… just think about that man. You act like he is doing this for you.
+LeBrons Hairline No. There is no “of course” here. “Of course” is a relative phrase. Do you drive every day (I hope you have a car and you do)? You are aware that if you turn the wheel too much at any moment while you are driving on the freeway, you are going to die? Yet, you have so much experience that you know, you are not going to make such a mistake and you feel safe. Still, every day hundreds of people all over the world make the mistake while driving and die. Are you afraid? No, you just trust you will not make the mistake and you will live. You trust it enough to feel comfortable driving. If you do die, nobody will say, “of course he died, he was steering a ton of steel 10 times faster than running, among dozens of similarly moving objects”. If somebody who does not have experience with driving did that, yes they would say “of course he died”. It’s all relative to your level of experience.
So is with Alex. He has a skill that he practiced well enough that he feels comfortable. It is probably safer for him than driving. If he dies, well yes, but hundreds of people die driving every day.
He is safe. See my reply to LeBrons Hairline.
Alex Honnold is a beast and an inspiration! Check out his book, Alone on the Wall if you want more!
dvlpr thanks for recommending his book I didn’t know he had one
Alex is a really nice and funny guy, but the situation that he describes at 3:58 is horror beyond imagination for me
This makes me nervous just listening
I see that there are still Men left in this country. Good.
TheMrmoc7 most TedTalks nowadays give you a different impression
The greatest athletic achievement of all time. Period.
So errm,
How does he climb with the weight of those balls?
So errm,
When will you come up with an original joke?
+Jack Wigren
So errm,
You do know that multiple people can converge on the same idea without copying each-other right?
Especially when it comes to simple stuff like this
When he was talking about trusting that foothold my palms went sweaty