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How I Climbed a 3,000-Foot Vertical Cliff — Without Ropes | Alex Honnold | TED

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Hello. I'd like to show you guys 30 seconds of the best day of my life.

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(Applause)

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So that was El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park,

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and in case you couldn't tell,

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I was climbing by myself without a rope,

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a style of a climbing known as free soloing.

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That was the culmination of a nearly decade-long dream,

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and in the video I'm over 2,500 feet off the ground.

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Seems scary? Yeah, it is,

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which is why I spent so many years dreaming about soloing El Cap

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and not actually doing it.

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But on the day that that video was taken,

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it didn't feel scary at all.

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It felt as comfortable and natural as a walk in the park,

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which is what most folks were doing in Yosemite that day.

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Today I'd like to talk about how I was able to feel so comfortable

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and how I overcame my fear.

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I'll start with a very brief version of how I became a climber,

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and then tell the story of my two most significant free solos.

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They were both successful, which is why I'm here.

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(Laughter)

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But the first felt largely unsatisfying,

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whereas the second, El Cap, was by far the most fulfilling day of my life.

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Through these two climbs, you'll see my process for managing fear.

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So I started climbing in a gym when I was around 10 years old,

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which means that my life has been centered on climbing

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for more than 20 years.

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After nearly a decade of climbing mostly indoors,

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I made the transition to the outdoors and gradually started free soloing.

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I built up my comfort over time

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and slowly took on bigger and more challenging walls.

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And there have been many free soloists before me,

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so I had plenty of inspiration to draw from.

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But by 2008, I'd repeated most of their previous solos in Yosemite

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and was starting to imagine breaking into new terrain.

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The obvious first choice was Half Dome,

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an iconic 2,000-foot wall that lords over the east end of the valley.

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The problem, though also the allure,

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was that it was too big.

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I didn't really know how to prepare for a potential free solo.

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So I decided to skip the preparations

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and just go up there and have an adventure.

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I figured I would rise to the occasion,

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which, unsurprisingly, was not the best strategy.

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I did at least climb the route roped up with a friend two days before

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just to make sure that I knew roughly where to go

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and that I could physically do it.

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But when I came back by myself two days later,

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I decided that I didn't want to go that way.

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I knew that there was a 300-foot variation

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that circled around one of the hardest parts of the climb.

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I suddenly decided to skip the hard part and take the variation,

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even though I'd never climbed it before,

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