Stride Health: Alex Honnold's Urban Ascents (Full Film)
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- Spend a day in San Francisco pushing the limits with the world's best free-solo climber Alex Honnold. Presented by www.stridehealth.com.
This is the untold story Alex Honnold's first ascents of San Francisco's iconic urban landscape. Join Alex and Stride Health on a journey from the boulders of Stinson Beach to the heart of the city.
He climbs Mark di Suvero's eye-catching sculptures on Crissy Field, chimney's up the iconic Palace of Fine Arts which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year, and wraps with a daring Financial District ascent in the shadows of the TransAmerica building.
"I spend so much more time on rock where its so natural to me, whereas with buildings its much more of an adventure... I don't have that much experience climbing up buildings, so its more exciting."
You'll see the playful side of Alex, and find out what truly scares him (spoiler: Board Room balconies). Urban Ascents brings Alex back down to earth and gives us all a chance to understand how he perceives risk and has trained his body for 18+ years to reduce it.
Safety. Fun. Speed.
Why Stride Health? Because even Alex needs a spotter.
Okay, so maybe Alex is king of his free-soloing domain, but only once he carefully studies a route. Occasionally he'll slip while roped in and "take a 40-footer." If Alex hits his head or breaks a bone, we've got him covered. In his own words, Alex "wants to be a grandfather" and that means making sure his "insides are alright". The good news for Alex: with his Stride Health recommended plan, he has access to the best doctors at the lowest cost and care made easy.
We make health insurance human. www.stridehealth.com
The dislikes are from the rope companies.
Lol. Underrated comment.
And ladder companies too
Funny comment, but I think it's mostly voyeur parents. They like PRETENDING at stuff, but hate their children attempting it.
lmfao
For real though... what kind of human thumbs down others achievements...
Imagine you are standing on a rooftop enyoing the view and suddeny a dude just pops up onto the roof.
Hahaha hahaha hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Bruh 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
He already did in free solo. When he appeared without gear on campers in a bunny suit 1000 plus feet high
When he free soloed half dome, the first hikers just reached the top from the other side and found him hiking down. They thought he was so hardcore for hiking half dome barefoot with his shoes in his hand. Little did they know he just free solo climbed the other side.
MUITO BOM, BRINCA MUITO KKKK
One day, he will attempt to free solo his own balls...
With the implication that they are gigantic and rock hard
im sure he already has
He will fail as they keep getting bigger...
@@KingKharibda Well his balls are gonna grow with each moment he free solos now, so he's never gonna finish...
I feel like there is a boulder joke to be had here.. 😂
My hands and feet get so sweaty watching Alex climb. It’s insane.
Me too. Does that happen to everybody or is it because I used to climb, I wonder?
@@scoutwithoutclout I've been climbing my whole life, and I've climbed all over the West coast, including big walls in Yosemite. That said, "Free Solo" is the scariest movie I've ever seen. I think being a climber makes it worse.
Watching all these Alex hannold videos realllllyyy makes me appreciate the ground so much. I love you ground. I will stay close to you forever.
It won’t love you back when you fall on it
Me too. I'm content with a nice hike and watching the climbers do their thing.
You are missing out though.
@@RollingShutter On sheer terror! No thanks! I love watching climbers do their thing, and more power to them. Alex is a particularly likable guy, and I wish him the best. But just standing at the edge of the high diving board at a local public pool when I was a kid? Correction! I couldn't even bring myself to walk out to the edge of the board much less dive off it--or even just step off the board! No way! I guess I envy the kids who'd go racing off that board like it was the greatest fun ever. And it was for them, no doubt. But all I could imagine is how painful the impact of the water would be! A fear of heights might not be the worst thing in the world to have. But I do enjoy watching these videos of Alex and other climbers doing their climbs. Fascinating and horrifying at the same time!
the ground isn't your enemy, it's just the net that catches you. gravity's the bitch.
The fact that you can NEVER make a mistake, puts you atop of the world in terms of athletes. Imagine a quarterback who has never thrown an interception, imagine a shooting guard who has never missed a shot... THIS. MAN. IS. INSANE. (in a good way)
Doubt it. People who are superstar level in their sport are born for that sport. They have the perfect genes and body for that sport. DOesn't mean they could do anything and be the best.
You have to be kidding! Soccer stars? Doing this? Get real - they spend their lives falling for no reason!!
hahahaha i can't... xD so true...
Josh Malech imagine if the same fear that comes with falling off the face of a cliff came with throwing an interception or missing a shot. It's that fear that makes him so perfect at what he does. The high potential for risk forces you to never make a mistake. If that was the case for all sports I'm sure professional athletes would be even more on top of their game.
ya. . .until rock starts to move and more variables are involved, i fail to see how perfection seems to be only reached in one. . "sport"
It is insane to me that he can pull his weight gripping a quarter of an inch of brick.
To be fair, the vast majority of his weight is on his legs. When it comes to climbing, a very large percentage of power comes from your legs!
Not taking anything away from Alex's accomplishments here, because yes it is still impressive.
@@andrewpatterson3662 lol
@@andrewpatterson3662 Yes and as i've climbed for an year now myself (once a wewk). The trust he can puts on those tiny tiny footholds is amazing. i dont trust a foothold that is an inch thick. He really is amazing. Plus the start puts alot of the weight on your fingers so he can really hold on to that edge with just his fingers. Ppl who havent tried climbimg themselves cant fully appreciate how ridicuously hard that is. I'm not saying that you don't tho. I think you have experience in climbing.
Alot of strong climbers can hold a 1/4in crimp with 200% of their body weight.
Yeah, but that's like the easy part.
Lmao he even called the top of the building a “summit”
2:32
Lmao
The top of anything can be referred to as a summit since a summit just means "The highest point or part; the top."
So he is technically correct
@@tannerebeling1056 "The top of anything can be referred to as" 🤓🤓🤓
@@xfreference5055 no one thinks you’re funny...
@@xfreference5055 Someone didn't pay attention in elementary school
Honnold doesn't need health insurance. Just life insurance.
his friend fell from 100 feet and lived
Can you imagine how expensive his policy would be.
@@fvaletudo06 if you fell from that far would you want to live?
@@negan4089 Idk maybe I'll be fine within a couple of years depends how you fall what you fall on how fast you fall. 100ft is 100ft but still variables can help your outcome
@@Alex-rg2kk yeah but not just the damage your body will take what about your life. Let's say you are married your wife has to bathe you feed you for many months you will get laid off at work. Bill's will pile up money struggles come in wife gets mad takes the kids you lose your house. Boom life is shit at Keats with really good life insurance your family will be taken care of for a while
And now he climbed El capitan, what a legend !
EZ PZ for him...
DanMk2 Many people have climbed el cap. He free soloed it though. He has climbed el cap with a rope for probably like 60 times, including his free solo. The free solo is what made it amazing.
Truly an Amazing Man
Anybody who hasn't seen Free Solo needs to stop what they're doing and go watch it. This man is absolutely amazing.
Actually he practiced El Cap for two years, so by the time he free soloed it he knew how to climb it by heart. That doesn't mean it wasn't an amazing achievement, I just say that you can still fall from a simple building you never seen before if you are not careful.
it makes me so uncomfortable how when he gets up to the top he immediately stands up with his heels a centimeter from the edge as if if he leans back a tiny bit too much he won't fall to his death. just crawl a little bit further first man you're giving me a heart attack lmao
Maybe, just as you practice climbing, you grow faith in your body.
After all, if a small place is wide enough to place your feet on it, your body is balancing just as on a wide plane.
@77Wells I get vertigo when I look up at tall buildings. So when the camera panned down once he reaches the top it made me feel so uneasy
δτ I think of it as: if you could do it 5 feet from the ground you can do it 50 feet from the ground. It is basically the same only with a height difference.
@@deadfo_
Exactly.
The extra space is _technically_ irrelevant to your feet and thus your stability.
@@xCorvus7x yeah. heights are probably 90 percent mental and 10 percent, if not less, physical
3:13
Man: Yo that guys climbing the side of a building!
Woman: Not interested
In the city you get used to seeing parkour dudes and stuff so it might seem like the same thing
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed 😂 There's no way I see a man climbing the side of a brick building and don't stop to watch.
someone give this guy an assassin creed hoodie
serious!
then people would really freak
😂
I guess you didn’t notice the red and blue clothes he was wearing (Spider-Man Easter egg).
TheVietnameseKid1125 word. Anyone else think about how he got down if the roof door was locked
As much as I love Honnold and what he does, I still want him to stop lol.
Samuel Booth stfu
@@steezywu lol so much anger
Don’t think it is a good thing all these documentaries and news stations are glorifying climbing like this, it is most certainly going to influence more people to try this who end up losing their lives.
@@justinsnider9772 clearly you didn't watch the video at all, his friends want him to stop... there's no glorifying climbing, wtf!
Showing it in front of millions of people is glorifying it, this guy has become famous from risking his life free soloing, wether they say they like it or not it is showing people that doing things like this can make you famous. Best thing to do is not cover it at all, if he wants to make that decision with his life that’s fine but posting it all over TH-cam and tv is putting it in the view of people who will certainly follow suit.
Alex's levels of concentration must be so epic. Just dialed in, minute after minute, totally focused on the task. The whole potential falling thing aside, I am impressed how his mind stays on point for long periods of time. It took him 4 hours to free-solo the 3000 ft El Cap. That's such an insanely long time to stay focused.
four hours is not a long time to focus
@@quentin4518 you’ve never stayed focused for 10 minutes let alone 4 hours boy.
He had breaks in between as noted in the documentary so it wasn't four hours straight. It's more like taking two 2 hour long exams with a lunch break in between, which is done by everybody who went to highschool. So no, not special at all in that respect.
@@steviechampagne he took breaks so it wasn't a continuous 4 hour climb. Also the fact that most exams last that long which makes it very likely that guy you are replying to has in fact concentrated for 4 hours.
@@moel6304 Yeah because taking a test and climbing a 3000ft wall of granite equals the same level of concentration....what an idiot, you lose concentration on El Cap and you're dead, you saying that is the same as doing a test at School? how old are you?
"Nope, guess my frisbee isn't up here... damn, I could of swore."
Alex is incredible. I just read an article on an MRI analysis of his fear responsive brain activity, in which professionals attempted to stir bouts of fear or primal stress with external stimuli so to observe and capture the inner workings. Just from the imagery of the results which were provided in the summary, this man is clearly superior. They compared his MRI results with another solo rock climber and the contrast is so expressive. It's like Honnold suppresses activity of the fear reaction (even at the physical/biological level) towards the back of his brain instead of allowing the full effect to seep into the more central and front most parts of the brain wherein they are interpreted and elaborated upon (as in like what appeared to be happening in the other rock climbers mind during testing). While some people would call this "blatant ignorance" this actually takes a HUGE amount of cognitive control, his capacity for focus and in-the-moment-dexterity must be unreal. He is very in touch with his prefrontal cortex, I would guess. To me, in my mind, Alex is a genius of self realization. I hope his improvement never ends.
He's remarkable at what he does - but he's also built and has brain wired for it (literally). My understanding of that study is that it's not that he's masterful at handling the fear feelings - rather that he lacks normal response patterns to danger and they are heavily diminished. In essence, he exhibits danger-seeking behavior because the stimulus isn't as strong as other average people or other professional athletes. While he is able to manage it - he has a higher success rate because of the lower volume and intensive of brain activity in prefrontal cortex where a fear as a danger-avoidance behavior would be triggered. In other words - he will feel fear but the treshold will be lower - for example: his physiological and psychological reaction to a danger/fear response on a face of a cliff may be similar as... I don't know... something you or I may feel fear of getting burned stepping into a tub of boiling/hot water. Likely not the most accurate analogy, but that's what I gathered from multiple psychological profiles of danger-seekers (vs. thrill-seekers) and articles I read on interpretation of scan activity of his brain and his behavior.
lucabaar1 I don't know of the interview I watched was with him but he essentially said that he knows that every move is 100% solid and there is no such thing as mistake. His brain knows exactly how to proceed further eliminating the mistake factor. Most of us slip during climbing because we leave some space to chance, he doesn't.
When you are up there on a giant rock , climbing twelve hundred feet I don't think your brain is thinking about anything except...Up is good ( life ) ,and Down is dead.
I don't think he is feeling any emotion at all , fear ,joy, happiness, sadness. Fight or flight. He is just completely and strategically focused on the next move.
lucabaar1 worst bullshit I've read in a while. Sadly due to the vocabulary you use people will probably believe you. Of course he has fears, he just trusts himself. Anyone smart can do this. I do these kinds of climbs. I'm not scared at all. Free rock climbers are the exact same. Except if you're even smarter (unlike this guy and free climbers), you use a climbing condom aka rope. You should go for crazy shit like this once in a while, not every day. If you haven't done such a climb and you're a good climber, do it. It's fun, dangerous and that's why it feels good. Both of the climbs in this video are easy and most climbers can do them. Just don't do it every day or you'll get natural selected once in a while...or just "once", actually.
Skullflowerz Exactly. Primitive. This guy doesn't have "weird superior genes", he just likes to climb, is good at it and he's also missing a braincell. So am I. When they say in the video "some people see this and think you're crazy but you know what you're doing" (or whatever the words that they used), it's fucking wrong. Once again, I do climbs like this. You know what you're doing, yes. You're smart, yes. Experienced, Above Average, you're able to eliminate every mistake and stay safe at all times.
BS.
You think so. The building might just be white painted up there and your foot will slip because of that, or a brick might be fkd, or your body might reboot for no apparent reason mid-climb.
You. Don't. Know.
No matter how smart, strong etc. you are.
Once again if you're good at climbing, try to climb random shit, it's hella fun. Just don't abuse it. No one is invincible.
“I’ll take the elevator”
“I’ll take the stairs”
Alex: screw that
"I'll take the wall"
I have just fallen in love with this cool guy Alex Honnlan . He is so well thought out and real. From a shy kid to a great interview. All the luck and success to you sir
That was a health insurance commercial?
So damn relatable.
We will help you find better insurance. Checks file. OK, we can't find you insurance.
I am 60 years old now and unable to do many of the crazy things I did in my teens and early twenties. This guy and those like him make me feel alive.
RicTic66 You should watch his movie that just came out ‘Free Solo’ it’s really good but super scary sometimes haha
You don’t need to ‘feel alive’ Rick, you already are!
@@xCBfilms There are many alive people who are dead. Their soul is broken (if they still have one), they are suicidal, drug addicted (alcohol also is a drug), and/or havs mental disorders. Well, maybe they can recover but often enough they don't.
@@Toopa88 Thanks....for telling me who i am - alive but dead 🤦🏻
This comment innocently teared me up for a good 15min....
I dread these times.... and I know its blatant ignorance... but I dont want to lose my abilities to climb and jump as I get old.... I dont know what I will do then...........
I know I should enjoy my youth while I can...and I sure do, everydays..... but I dread those times....
this was 5 years ago. he looks exactly the same.
he knows he is immortal
You don't change THAT much in just 5 years though. Yeah, maybe from 15 to 20. 30-35 isn't that much of a gap.
Johan Dust not for Justin beiber
@@johandust6926 well that's true I've not changed since I was a fetus and now I'm 24 years old
Ppl dont change much in their 20's unless you live an unhealthy life that is.
Such a beautiful human soul, with a very uplifting and inspiring demeanor. Much love to ya Alex and your family.
He's definitely living life to its fullest extent. What I appreciate the most about him is that he is ready to die any moment. For him an expression like "live as this is your last day on earth" is literall not figurative. RESPECT Alex🤝
Watching him climb urban locations really puts his skill level in perspective of all the random urban climbs you see on youtube. His methodology is just world class and watching it is astounding. What an inspiration this guy is.
He is probably the most internally calm and ballanced person in the world, he knows that every day he wakes up can be his last.
He does not do things that risk risk his life daily.
In Free Solo you can clearly see he's not. He's doing that stuff in order to get balanced, deep within he's a melancholic, almost depressed character always struggling with himself. Great and interesting person anyway:)
That goes for all of us
Frantisek Kurcik well not unless he stays in the fucking house or be a normal human
Everyone knows that, but few understand and are acutely aware of it, because every day can be anyones last, we just tend not to think about it as much as someone like Alex.
There are many people who do life threatening things often, for example fire fighters, or police, or base jumpers, list goes on.
I remember the first time I saw this video, probably a few years before he came into the spotlight and I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it blew me away. I am grateful that he is doing very well because he is one of a kind
"...so I'd be like sort of okay still maybe???"
Good to know he feels confident in what he's doing!
02:12 The bird is like: "wtf this human doing here...?"
This was a health insurance video???
kme
This dude's monthly subscription must be SO expensive. Or maybe they don't cover death?
Ciro Santilli LOL!
Yea, Death is probably not covered.
it was the bldg where the goodby silverstein & partners law office are in. he prolly signed a waiver to climb it, no doubt
they're not providing health insurance directly - sounds like an interesting company:
Stride Health, Inc. is a California startup focused on connecting individuals with health plans under the Affordable Care Act. Its approach to the marketplace has led to coverage from Wired Magazine, re/code, the San Francisco Chronicle and others.
My palms are sweating just watching him. Amazing stuff.
Unreal. As humble as anyone too. True LEGEND.
I think it's safe to call him spider man.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Robert
no. there is one alreay.
It’s not safe. Not safe at all.
I think it's safe to call spider man Alex Honnold.
Toby maguire is the only true spiderman
I get sweaty palms watching this ... haha
Me too dammit!
I don't lol
ME TOO,and its funny because it is the worst thing that can happen to you while you re climbing
My moist arshole winks at me in terror.
stop touching yourself then
My heart was literally bassing the whole time.
He is simply amazing & naturally gifted and the most thing I liked is his modesty & simplicity
1:47 I love how excited and enthralled he looks. "Oh! This is new, isn't it?" Love Alex Honnold.
That childlike look of awe is quite charming isn't it
It makes me proud that I’m the same species as Alex
What exactly species is that
human, homo sapiens? Justins got a point. Just because you cant relate...
@@jorgeo1492 Welcome to the fascinating concept of "a joke".
That sounds super sad
Definetely a spider species. He just needs a web making mechanism, and then he's a real life spiderman.
This guy is amazing. Love following his youtube interviews.
Thank you Alex...we all love you...oh, and respect you beyond crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was definitely a tree climber as a kid. Please dont die.. you're just so nice and you've begun to inspire me to climb!
he's still alive and married with a kid ❤
hes retiring
3:35 he was climbing on "1/4 inch brick held up with glue" 😱
if you believe that, i have high quality blinker fluid for sale 4:56
Thats not 1/4 inch brick i promise you its held up by mortar (cement) trust me they hyped it up but still impressed immensely how they did not give out with the weight of his balls of steel
That guy did not know what he was talking about, I’m pretty sure he did not work construction between 1900-1910
Those are actual bricks held by cement and they are required to be RE-pointed by department of buildings periodically. There are such things as local laws for safety especially buildings over certain height
Tbh a lot of average climber could climb that building, but nobody has the guts to do it like Alex does.
@@cem_cem9991 that’s 720 California St. built in 1926. The golden age of brick. Agreed. That’s not veneer.
We need to continue to give this guys his flowers now!!!
🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Just amazing. Getting up is amazing, but then getting down again....
4:18 no way! So you climbing buildings like in Assassin's Creed it actually possible.
upload some videos u lazy fuck
What grade do you think a brick building is?
@@dynamo5326 this one in particular isnt that hard, you have an edge every 30 or 40 cm that is easily usable as an open crimp and foothold. Its much more the nerves
Yeah but way slowe irl
Alex Honnold is a world class climber, but you should also check out parkour. That's 100% Assassin's Creed shit.
He aint scared of death, death is scared of him.
+Ricardo Garcia If he went to hell, he would just climb his way back out.
No
@@Penance2277 ahahahah
We're all mortal.
What about Chuck Norris
I checked when this video was posted, and then if Honnold was still alive. Glad to see he is.
He brings tears to my eyes. So inspirational.
Chuck Norris once asked Alex to open a jar for him.
Because his palm got sweaty just from Alex's presence
@@auroravuitton90 Alex was sweaty too but he brought his chalk
Eric Lutz
And Alex broke the jar instead and used the glass shards as chalk dust.
I LOVE YOU
Best climber in the world.
Here's to a long, healthy life.
"Best" is a question of discipline. In terms of pure hardness of routes, Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra are better. But sure, in terms of ballsiness and a calm mindset, he's the best.
lagerbaer
Dan Osman WAS the best. I've never seen Alex Honnold but he appears to be a bit nervous climbing the side of that building. I hope that he does not attempt Taipei 101 without complete confidence.
He's already said that the 101 climb will be a cakewalk for him. One of those things that will look dangerous but the climbing itself will be very easy.
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Jarrod Peterson Not sure if serious - knowing of Osman but not Honnold? Check out The North Face: Alex Honnold - El Sendero Luminoso
This guy is a force of nature
I free soloed this morning. Climbed out of bed. Every day is a life or death situation. That’s why I always check the weather before deciding to climb out of bed.
Can't help but feel 1,000 different unexplainable emotions watching this guy.
Just absolutely incredible and beautiful.
There's soo much art behind what he does.
Steve Robinson AH is superhuman or beyond.
Only other person who is comparable is Phillipe Petit... the man who surreptitiously and illegally erected a wire structure between the Twin Towers and performed his high-wire act 1,776 ft above NYC with no safeties.
Everyone interested should watch Man on Wire... a gorgeous inspiring documentary film.
(Please refrain from the foolish Hollywood replica movie.. it simply waters everything down)
Honnold is the greatest climber no doubt and also an artist because he creates feelings that make people feel alive.
best comment so far. underrated
The el cap climb is the most amazing physical task/ challenge in sports, any human has ever done imo
Whoever at Stride thought it would be great to have someone climb on glued in ornamental bricks should be fired.
Boats 😂
They didn’t ask him to climb it
Boats, Yes, it's risky, but 'glued in' is Alex's tongue-in-cheek way of describing the protruding bricks. Looks as though they are an integral part of the wall construction. Now climbing the steel structure - that looks hairy . . .
@@jamesneilsongrahamloveinth1301 they're a facade. They are not structural, and they are indeed "glued on"
he’s climed very hi roks befor
If there was a fire in his block he'd just climb down like no biggie
he would have climbed out of the twin towers if he was there.
actually climbing down is almost impossible (well exponentially harder). ascending, you can see where to place your hands. descending you can't see where to place your feet. ask any climber.
Dave Fisher loool you got mad technical, you're right though. I was tryna right a funny comment, forgot I wrote that
The dude lives in a van
Dave Fisher He wasn’t saying it’s no biggie to climb down versus up... he was just saying that it’s cool how he has control in that situation while others don’t. Try not to be so pedantic when someone is clearly just making a fun comment...
He has a natural pure approach to everything. He isnt detoured from his initial life mission by anything. I dont know if ive ever seen someone like him. Im kinda always in awe watching and hearing him.
Got the chills just watching that
The last shot of the top of the brick building had me reeling back with butterflies is my stomach and im lying in bed at 2am not climbing 😂
Lately I’ve been looking to Alex and his skills for inspiration on just how to live my daily life. He’s amazing and hardly knows it. We can all learn from his humbled abilities.
As a masonry and concrete contractor, I really hope that Alex consults with an expert who knows exactly how these structures are built prior to climbing. Man made structures can be very deceiving.
Even if he consulted the architect etc you still can't be certain. Many contractors make tiny mistakes or cut corners in a way that would not fundamentally harm the foundation of a building yet can be detrimental once you start climbing it relying solely on the specification / blue print / official materials used
this dude has an increadible streanght to do free climbing.. much respect 💪🤘
4:50 The way he just casually walks up onto the top of the building is insane, it looked effortless.
I absolutely love this guy! What a solid human being.
My hands are drenched with sweat from watching this guy climb
Watching the Free Solo documentary and having seen him scale El Cap makes this a breeze to watch, whereas my palms were sweaty throughout the entirety of that documentary. Still so cool to watch though.
This dudes absolutely Gifted!! True legend!!.
Alex is an interesting man. Not only his skills are amazing and his stamina is just inspiring, but he has this calm, calculated, rational approach to climbing. So different from many climbers that just carelessly go for the adrenaline rush. (Who are still inspiring and awesome in their own way).
I actually gasped in fear at the end when the camera looked over the edge of the building and I had to look away
Every time I watch an Alex Honnold video I know I'm going to get scared. Even though I know he's ok I get that crazy vertigo feeling in my gut. Please don't ever fall.
My palms sweat just watching this guy 🤙🙏
And it just so happened he wore the same colours as spiderman
Red stands out for the camera.
Spiderman wears the same colours as him. True story...
He is the spiderman. . Cover blown!
I like alex honold a lot. He is a role model for many young climbers. I appreciate the work he is doing for our overcrowded planet. Darwin would approve!
I climb stairs all the time. Totally relate to alexs journey!
Just woow,this very ameizing,respect man.
3:10 I didn't know that that is possible, seriously amazing
Anybody else have sweaty palms?
my palms ARE sweaty....knees weak, arms are heavy...mom's spaghetti
Yes
No one like you Alex Honnold's, more genius than Einstein.Great love and regards from Pakistan.
There are no words for a skill as this level.
I know Alex is a legend (no disputing that) but I wanna see him descending his climbs free soloing.
YES ! At the end of watching this, I thought just how amazing it would be to see him climb back down !
Still, I do not mean to detract at all from this highly impressive display of his amazing ability.
Alex is truly a legend. Absolutely a MASTER of his craft. RESPECT ! So much RESPECT for him !
Alex Honnold is the greatest climber who ever lived!
+Dave Stonehill says the learned scholar of all things climbing.
Aaqilian5.0 Valid point. I only base my estimation of Alex Honnold on what I have seen on you tube. Truth is, I know nothing about this sport so my opinion can't be given much weight.
+Dave Stonehill Has Alex ever even climbed anything harder than a 5.10? I haven't seen it on TH-cam. He catches peoples attention because he doesn't use ropes but in terms of technical climbing there are quite a few people out there climbing harder routes and problems than Alex.
John D Maybe. I don't know much about the sport so I am open to more informed opinions. Please refer me to those climbers you think are better and those climbs that are more difficult than the ones he has mastered.
Dave Stonehill Well, I think the best in the world right now as far as technical climbs is Chris Sharma and maybe Kevin Jorgeson. But If you are into free soloists, look up Michael Reardon, Derek Hersey, Patrick Edlinger(possible misspell|). These guys all free soloed way before Honnold, and did way harder climbs free solo than he has.
I love this guy so much.
that brickwall... insane. INSANE
My hands are sweating
Haha, same.
My too 😰
moms spaghetti
Wtf me too
There’s vomit on his sweater already....
If rock climbing is defined as a sport then this is the greatest sportsman ever full stop , I can't think of another sport where 1 mistake will be fatal ?? His ability to climb is otherworldly but his ability to control normal human emotions of fear anxiety pressure is even more outstanding , what he done at El Capitan will likely never be repeated by another human ever , that's an insane thought !!
"I can't think of another sport where 1 mistake will be fatal ??"
Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (motorcycle road racing). There are fatalities at every event (6 in 2022).
Search: "List of Isle of Man TT Mountain Course fatalities"
Fastest lap: 136.358 mph (219.447 km/h)
John McGuinness TT 2016 onboard Superbike Qualifying
th-cam.com/video/3CVAVAU5Tpg/w-d-xo.html
Fastest EVER Lap of the Isle of Man TT | Peter Hickman - 136.358mph
th-cam.com/video/31RZ5wU-Fg0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Alex
"He conquered both worlds."
What a legend!
When he climes that building i thought he was going to use those little overhangs that are like a foot apart all the way up, ....NO!!!!! He just used the mortar spaces. Which is like less then a quarter of an inch deep. GEEZ!
he uses the ledges...NO mortar .. you can clearly see it in 3:14 .. later when the camera is further away, our eyes are telling us lies..classical optical illusion :)
+jos i dont know what the fuck you are talking about
McRespawn Exactly!
+Jay B He's climbing the ledges which you can see at 3:04. Follow the mortar line to the edge of the wall; it's a ledge. It's also why one of the construction guys asked "what were you thinking?" because he was referring to the fact that those ledges aren't structural. They are a decorative very thin layer of bricks basically glued to the wall.
Looks about an inch deep
This man is playing with fire
The end seemed so genuine but I could see right through it.
Watching this made the palms of my hands and feet very sweaty lol
Alex Honnold is a monster
Stranger: I'm locked out of my appa...
Alex: say less.
Brutal. como todo lo que haces, Alex
I did this with some friends of mine when we were young. The highest building was 25 stories high. Too sad we didn’t film it.
This guys awesome
alex es una leyenda mis respetos sin dudad el mejor
I'v Emet Alex and he's such a kind and unique man. He talks with me and my team sometimes at my home gym
That building in San Francisco was crazy.