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Climber Completes the Most Dangerous Rope-Free Ascent Ever (nationalgeographic.com)
42 points by peeze 3302 days ago
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Alex Honnold does not experience fear like the rest of us: http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...
When your natural programming to take risk and gain reward, ends up just taking risk. For him, staring at a screen and doing the work many here do, might be like climbing a mountain for everyone else. Risking ones life to do things so similar to things you've gotten away with before shouldn't be so celebrated.
Wow! Way to go Alex!