Alex Honnold

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Alex Honnold is a professional adventure rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America’s biggest cliffs have made him one of the most recognized and followed climbers in the world. He recently sat with Lance in his Las Vegas home to discuss his entry into the sport, the inherent risks with free soloing and the documentary Free Solo. The film chronicles his free solo scale unsupported and without ropes up the famous El Capitan, the 3,000 vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.

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0:00.0	All right, hey everybody, welcome back to the Forward Podcast.
0:02.6	I'm your host, Lance Armstrong, happy new year, 2019.
0:07.7	You know what's crazy is next year's going to be 2020.
0:11.4	That's crazy. I remember when it was 2000 I was like how cool is that going to be when it's going to be 20-20 like the show?
0:19.0	Nobody else thought that? Okay, that's great.
0:22.0	Listen, our guest today, Alex Hahnold from, I don't know if you guys and gals have seen the documentary
0:29.0	Free Solo, which is a documentary done by Jimmy Chen about Alex climbing El Cap in Yosemite National Park without
0:37.0	ropes. I'll get to him in a little bit.
0:42.0	Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns. to him in a little bit.
0:42.6	Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns.
0:44.9	We've got to be happy about our future there.
0:48.8	Sam Eliger, great job at QB, co-chairman, everybody.
0:52.9	Congrats to the horns.
0:54.1	What else do we have?
0:57.7	What did we say?
0:59.2	Oh, run training.
1:00.5	The marathon, the Austin Marathon, me, the Charity Chaser, which most of y'all probably know, going well, a little
1:08.0	setback over the New Year holiday or the holiday season because we were down in the Bahamas.
1:13.6	It was a little tough to find paved roads to run on as opposed to water and beaches.
1:19.8	But I'm excited.
1:20.8	We got a little over a month to go and I ran into a guy last night. I says, I'm excited. We got a little over a month ago and I ran into a guy last night. He says,
1:24.5	I'm running the Austin Marathon and I'm doing everything I can to not get caught.
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