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Facing Fear with Alex Honnold | ReThinking with Adam Grant
Climbing Gold
What Is the Ultimate Purpose of Climbing?
Climbing has a lot of meaning, but it's not as obvious to me who benefits from it or who it helps. That's the part that puzzles me, the contribution part. And if you feel like you can do something that humans haven't done before, I feel like there's almost an obligation to do that just because they're showing a certain capability. But climbing isn't making anybody's life better and it's not improving global conditions in any way. You are just pushing into the unknown a little bit.
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