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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Andstrain champs.

What kind of person climbs 3,000 feet without a rope?

I definitely feel fear the same as anybody else when I think I'm actually in danger.

The difference is that I'm able to differentiate when I'm truly in danger

versus when I'm just having sort of an irrational fear response.

That's Alex Honnold, the guy who just stunned the world by free soloing

El Capitan. No wall is difficult the whole way. And so in the easy parts, I think about anything.

You know, I think about the view, I think about when I'm going to eat lunch. The same way,

like when you're out jogging, your mind wanders and you think about your day.

When I get to the harder sections, that's where I really focus. And then my mind empties and I just perform.

When it's going well, I mean, it definitely feels beautiful.

It's awe-inspiring in like the actual definition of the world.

The grandeur, I mean, it's just a real sense of awe.

I mean, I'm willing to wager I spend more time thinking about death than the average person.

Just because, you know, I'm in those kind of situations all the time,

and it does happen in the community, you know, from time to time.

I don't think I have any particularly profound thoughts about it, just that, you know,

an acceptance that everybody's going to die. And so you may as well, may as well do your best

before then.

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