Navy SEAL on Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold | Joe Rogan Experience

that's another thing that freaks me out is climbing did you do much climbing I was a lead climber up until the point where I don't have use of my ankle anymore because of the nerve injury oh and it's funny is I'm actually I don't like Heights how'd you free solo at all uh as long as I wasn't more like than three feet off the ground yes I'm totally comfortable free soloing and moving laterally but not vertically away from the ground because I see oh my god Honnold I watched maybe three times in a row and here's the thing I know he's alive I know he was on your podcast I listened to it and in the final scenes I realized I was sitting there white-knuckling my recliner like my hands were sweating I'm like I know he lives but it still freaked me the [ __ ] out Wow I mean that guy yeah he's something you know what's interesting about climbing is you get the more exposure you have the less it bothers you like I solely climbing is interesting especially if you are placing your protection as you go if it's drilled and both saying League or lead led to like uh someone's in front of you rope as a lead climber you are probably setting the ropes at least a mile job you're setting the ropes for the people who are gonna follow them most of the time when you see people what not most the time but one of the disciplines would be there's bolted routes that go up a rock so you can just bring you know carabiners and put the carabiner through that and you loop the Rope through it and you're good to go another aspect would be is you don't use the bolted end stuff and you basically carry on your climbing harness a rack of gear so as you're holding on to the rocks you're trying to wedge a block or a stopper in or a cam system that it rotates to be smaller then as you release it opens up and if you pull against it it locks itself into the rock right so you're setting your own protection and you trust those things so that was the point that I was getting to sometimes you get to a place you know like this is the perfect piece of gear and of course you're always like six feet off the ground when the perfect piece of gear and then you'll get multi pitches up in the air should be two 300 feet up in the air and you're a lead climber so there's nobody above you and you're setting your own pro and you're starting to get emotionally involved in the situation that you're in and you set a piece of pro and it's it's rattling around a little bit so I don't know we don't know how good that one's gonna be but we're gonna keep climbing and then the next piece of pro you said not the most awesome piece because you're worried about the one beneath you and you don't want to fall so you get it in there and then you just keep climbing so sometimes it's awesome and sometimes it's terrifying and then you've got to think that if you do fall all that force if one pops and then the second one pops you've got a lot of distance well you get to think it's double the distance if you're ten feet above the last piece of protection you put in you follow the ten feet to the protection then the ten feet pass the protection clink-clink-clink and then it pulls on the perfect on the pro so it's actually double the height that you are above it it's not I've been probably more scared out of my mind actually the security scares I've ever been is a you were lived in Boulder right yeah there's a climb there called the Bastille crack it's in one of the national parks and I was there with a buddy it is just me and him in a world-class climber and I was at the East Coast command at the time so budget was no option I had the newest shiniest stuff I'm like taking plastic off of climbing gear to go climb this rock this guy pulls up in a van with a Marlboro hanging out and you know tennis shoes that have laces probably on one of them one of the one of the shoes and an old pair of pants and he's climbed like every mountain ever so it's me and my buddy were climbing our way up I'm leading this pitch so you switch one guy will climb he sets an anchor the other person comes up and they pick all the protection out so you can just switch and then the other person leads the way on the next one so I'm like half way up this pitch and I can't move because I'm losing my [ __ ] I'm like 15 feet above the last piece of protection that I just put in I'm convinced that I feel my feet slipping off of the rock I'm holding I had my hand jammed into the rock and then you make a fist to like you know prevent it from falling out you can actually see Alex doing that in free solo as he's climbing up they'll slide their hand in and then they'll manipulate the shape so it pulls and as I my world is collapsing on me and I'm just sitting there I've got full sewing machine leg just sitting there just shaking I hear voice just over my shoulder he's like hey man just put the piece of pro right there and I look over and this professional climber is right next to me with no rope in his [ __ ] tennis shoes smoking a cigarette which is what he was using to point to where I should have placed the next piece of protection cool calm and collected and I almost fell off the rock cuz he scared me so bad I was so freaked out of what he was doing that I almost fell I'm like you need to get away from me immediately he's like yeah no prob and just scurried up the rock and tennis shoes - shoes tennis shoes but you're not supposed to use tennis shoes I don't think it mattered I think the guy like he was a partial complete monkey he just when you're around world-class climbers yeah I mean they can hang on an edge that is like a couple pieces of paper mm-hmm and this in the Bastille crack is not a difficult route so I'm sure there was one right next to it and he just as I'm freaking out he's just sitting there just hey buddy and I didn't know he was there I literally almost fell off because he talked to me get away from me different kind of you but I guess it's one of those things where it's like you dispose you're better at it you just yeah after a week of climbing you will not feel bad about walking up to the edge and just standing there Alex Honnold was telling us a story about one time who's free soloing and he was halfway up and he well he was in the middle of this journey up this [ __ ] mountain he realized he didn't bring any powder so didn't have any chalk with him cool so his hands are sweating and he's just climbing within it with no powder so he met a guy halfway up these guys that were using ropes and you know they were doing it the right way and he's doing it with no ropes and he goes hey man can I borrow your chalk and the guy gives him a chalk bag and he goes I'll leave it for you at the top of the mountain so he takes the chalk bag past these guys see yeah it just keeps going and then leaves the bag for the guy at the top of the hill I'm like what in the [ __ ] man how could you start something like that like and apparently said that once you start climbing you are committed to climbing in order to climb down and up yeah [ __ ] that there's not enough money in the world that would make me attempt the stuff that he does and if I was a climber that had Olaf I was like you know feeling like I'm kicking ass filming him sweaty filming him just talking about it I sweat like a pig I'm telling I was watching it white knuckling and if I was a climber and he passed me was like hey do you mind if I borrow your Chuck chalk I would finish that climb and never climb again yeah but because I would realize that I am a complete and utter [ __ ] in comparison to what he is like if that's what's possible yeah and I'm sitting here like strug I'm like I'm out you're also built wrong for it you know you I think the thin wiry guys it's the way to go he also has like these gorilla mask fingers man his fingers just used to yeah just grabbing but he also said that he had gone through a series of injuries for the first time in his life like recently over the last few years yeah that was in the the movie yeah like a compression of his discs and then a really bad strain on his ankle and he was didn't take six months off since we just started climbing in a cast sure such it's a different kind of human I mean he also lives out of a van I mean he's world famous guy who's living in a van traveling around just [ __ ] climbing rocks did you have him on after he had completed that climb like they were yeah okay so he had been successful they were just probably editing a project I had him on earlier like years ago yeah and then I had him on again recently okay yeah it's uh the guy I would want to talk to is Jimmy chin the photographer who is capturing all that oh he's up there with him right that's that's the thing I when he talks about it a little bit more so in the promos for the film but the how sketched out he was to actually be involved and sit there in film and how much of a burden he felt to like stay out of the periphery and not engage get engaged in the head space and make Alex do something different because the cameras were there that would of course cost him his life right I can't imagine the pressure of doing that or just I wouldn't do it like if a buddy of mine was like hey will you come fill me you know freeze I would say no because I would be so afraid of just watching them peel off Oh imagine if you were up there filming and you watched a girl fall that would be rough and there of course good friends mm-hmm and this guy yes Savage well he's got his hands on the camera only well he's got he's got a bunch of stuff so he see his foot his left foot is in he's kind of sick yeah he's kind of secured down there he's got that carabiner he's got one going to his harness he's actually got two ropes going to his harness so he's kind of angled in there's like a triangle but he's a world-class climber in and of himself he also has a giant ass camera bag look at that big-ass bag hanging from his hip look at that position he's in - oh [ __ ] all this Jimmy so that's how they get it that's how they get into position for a lot of it he's jus marring instead of climbing the rock he's got basically ascenders that will I to push it up and then they lock on the rope mm-hmm so he's got one leg in there in one arm and he's kind of jumar we used those a lot of the times as well but he's a world-class climber in and of himself I kind of think you'd have to be right in order to be able to capture that yeah yeah the team that I think they put together was like 5 to 7 world-class guys but there's a movie of him called yeah no thanks what is that what is that guy doing he's hanging probably 3,000 foot over nothing focusing on capturing the shot I would be focusing on the urine streaming down my leg yeah soaking your socks Oh God like I couldn't do that but I could go to the edge of that cliff and zip up my suit absolutely no problem and send that off there and I bet you he would want no piece of that it's so bizarre yeah if he's shootin Alex who's shooting him Mikey shooting Jimmy in the free solo movie I think they had a team of like 5 to 7 people they had so they had long lens they had people up there they had remote cameras I mean it's a whole they obviously had drones flying around yeah well there was a film that you know that besides this film the recent documentary which is a thing is called solo precella free solo yeah before that there was also a late night one of those new shows like ABC World News Tonight or something like that they did a whole piece on him and they had this one guy who was a you know world boss climber and said it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when he falls every innovator in the wingsuit world yeah is dead yeah it's I mean but at the same I mean I say that I would totally agree with that but I also understand why he's doing it I mean the end state for all of us is predetermined and I would suspect having never talked to the guy that he would rather meet his end like that than at 80 years old as a geriatric yeah I would imagine yeah but that doesn't ease the burden on the people around him and that's the that's the piece that was the toughest for me when it came to the wingsuit base with him there it's insane what's wrong with that man but meanwhile he's such a nice guy when you talked to Alex in real life he's a sweetheart you just you your route for him to quit look man you already did it stop I've yet to hear him expressed desire to do so though he's not quitting you know I mean I don't know it's built different

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I don't get the hate in the YouTube comments, guy seemed cool to me.