Free Climber Emily Harrington Talks About Alex Honnold

This season it was a lot of, it was some baby steps of like going back to that route and just placing a lot of gear so I felt super safe and then you know climbing it in the same style that I was going to climb with Alex, Simon climbing it, but still placing more gear and then during my try this year I actually told Alex because he was, he's definitely more comfortable than almost anyone I know on El Cap. Most people at least feel a little bit of intimidation, a little bit of fear, like you know there's a little bit of anxiety around it and he's just so casual that he was like yeah you should just like you know just run it out like go all the way like he was basically just wanting me to do it the same way that I was doing it before and I was like you know Alex I'm going to be a little slower this time like I just, I think I need that for my head and he was like okay. So he felt like you should do it with the same amount of gear that you did before and just don't fall, just don't fall this time Emily. Yeah kind of. Real simple. Yeah he was like you know but Alex one thing he always says is he's just like okay follow your heart and I was like okay well I'm going to go slower. Well just so the audience knows Alex told me that he did a route once and on his way up realized that he hadn't brought any chalk. So he had to borrow it from someone else who was strapped to ropes so he's free soloing. Yeah. No chalk. Says hey I don't have any chalk and the guy gives him a bag and he left the bag at the top so that when they got to the top they could retrieve the bag. Yeah that's the classic Alex situation. You know what like how do you not bring like if you lift weights you like chalk it's like it's very important. Yeah for me too I'm kind of obsessed with having chalk. I don't have chalk I just won't go climbing. I just can't imagine. But you know I think he's the type of person that you know going back to like talking about heart rate like I bet I bet when he's in those types of situations like he's so relaxed and his heart rate is so low and he's just he's a different I think he's truly unique you know and I think I think that he just has a different like even brain chemistry than than a lot of us in terms of like how he feels fear and how he can maintain that composure in a very dangerous situation. Well he's remarkably calm all the time. Yeah. Like he just seems always like on this one plane. Yeah. He's got like this like 55 beats per minute that he just stays at all the time. Yeah and it's great climbing with him actually because it kind of rubs off on me a little bit. Like when I climb with Alex I feel more confident I feel more capable I tend to climb better even though he kind of gives me shit all the time for being nervous he's always like you're always nervous like you're you're always stressing out but it's actually when I'm with him I'm like you know what I can chill out a little bit I can like I can I can be on that wavelength a little bit more so that's part of the reason why I like climbing with him up there and why I chose him for this project. Well that makes sense I mean I guess when you're around people that are if you're doing a thing and you're around people that are excellent at that thing it's contagious or at least inspirational. Yeah. I mean I think it's important to like do yeah to practice practice things that you want to be better at with people who are better than you. Yeah for sure. Episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience are now free on Spotify. That's right they're free from September 1st to December 1st they're going to be available everywhere but after December 1st they will only be available on Spotify but they will be free that includes the video the video will also be there it'll also be free. That's all we're asking. Go download Spotify. Much love, bye bye.