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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

Do You Want to Achieve and Survive?

I was a diver. I wasn't even willing to take enough risk to compete on platform. And it seems like, you know, that was one of the things I was thinking about as I watched you climb is I would get up on a 10 meter platform knowing I've spent years working on the skills and twist and landhead first. It's probably going to go fine, but I'm just terrified of getting lost in mid-air and like crashing on the water. The thing that trips me up a little bit is why not do it with the ropes? You don't have to worry that you might die. But then occasionally you just want that extra, that extra little test, let

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