Alex Honnold can climb a half-mile of sheer vertical rock.

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@Riemann

I was talking about this with some climber friends the other day. It seems to me that he does now have a possible psychological path to that - his El Cap climb may never be surpassed, so he can justifiably feel that he has reached the pinnacle of human achievement. And there’s a very real sense in which it would be way cooler for his legacy to do what he has done… and then die at 103 of old age.

One of the most famous French free climber, Patrick Edlinger, died aged 52 by slipping in the stairs and falling down…Beware gravity’s revenge.