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Facing Fear with Alex Honnold | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Climbing Gold

CHAPTER

Climbing Elcat

I know it does seem kind of kind of outrageous, but you have to remember that I was spending three months a year at least in Yosemite climbing full time. It reminds me a little bit of the proverb that says, you know, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? And my reaction is no, don't eat an elephant. But if you succeed, there's a decent chance that people who never would have tried Elcat before are going to die climbing it. You're really only doing it if you're highly intrinsically motivated. So it's kind of better in some ways.

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