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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Free Souling

I think you call it risk in consequence. I've always thought about it as just the severity versus probability question. If your odds of bombing on the ted stage were probably higher than they are of you falling when you climb. And there's the sort of misguided feeling that bombing in front of so many people will be almost as bad as dying. You dn't how embarrassing yourself in public can feel as bad as anything else in life. Yet if you fall, then you're you dot ely, least you don't have the embarrassment.

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