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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear | ReThinking with Adam Grant

How to Be a Better Human

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Climbing Elcat

"I felt like, you know, I could be the one to do it," he says of free soloing Elcat. "It's just not that big of a, it's just not a problem." The first ascent takes some pressure off for people doing the second or third time around and helps them focus on what they're really trying to achieve in their climb. But realistically, there's so few people interested and so few people capable,. So it's kind of better in some ways.

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