The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!
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It drives me crazy that nobody else thinks about risk this way. People call me crazy for taking risks, but at least I'm choosing them. People party every weekend, get buzzed, and drive home. Sedentary people staying home playing video games face higher risk of heart disease. Everyone takes unchosen risks and dies anyway, so take smart, calculated risks, do what you want, and die happy.
Alice Honold scaled one of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
People conclude from brain scans that I don't experience fear because my amygdala lights up less on scary images. I hate the brain stuff because it boxes me as different. I'm a middle-class suburban kid with no athletic family. After 20 years climbing 5 days a week and being scared, I respond differently than average. There was emotional turmoil, periods of trying hard but not being good enough, living in a car with a couple hundred bucks a month for 10 years. You can't master a craft overnight. People don't see the persistence required.
How do you create conditions to out-persist others?
Most scared moment: expedition to Antarctica, hoping it would get better but it worsened. I could die.
Do you converse with your partner before such climbs? She wrote a letter: "Obviously, this is your worst nightmare, but we all have to do scary things sometimes, Alex."
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