Alex Honnold Shares His WORST Climbing Experience
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Alex Honnold is on the podcast! Who? The guy that free handed Yellowstone? Close enough.
Seriously though, this was such a great interview. We talked about his two most epic solos that nobody heard about, near misses, lessons from other climbing legends like Tommy Caldwell, Jonathan Siegrist, and Peter Croft, pooping while free soloing stories, how the film Free Solo exceeded his hopes and dreams, the commitment to excellence, and much more!
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i had to take a shit halfway up a climb, hanging by one hand once. i tried to tell all the other people there that it's perfectly normal, but they still banned me from the climbing gym.
underrated lol
this is a good joke.
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO
So this man climbed a 7a multi-pitch route, with no rope, surrounded by mosquitos, in the dark, with diarrhea? I can't tell you how I feel about that.
3:20 "I was like ugh, feel like I'm dying, started soloing..."
And with his pants down
I have had staff take 3m days off work for runny poo…….context hey
Hopefully no diarrhea? 😂
@@iyziejane😂😂😂 exactly what I was thinking
1 handed poop while free soloing is God mode
Beyond being an amazing climber, Alex is brutally honest and hilariously funny without even trying.
totally agree!!!
Because he has autism
@@drewcunningham2 Maybe you're thinking of someone else. Alex is still alive and well (knock on wood).
@@MikeB-1965 Yeah, sorry man.....I was actually referring to Canadian Alpinist, Marc Andre LeClerc.... I had two separate comment streams going thus I posted the above to the wrong conversation - just deleted my error...thanks for pointing out my mistake...... anyway, cheers from chilly Canada!
Only Honnold would go solo while feeling terrible
😂😂😂
and in a cast on his ankle o0
…and “disaster poop” enters the climbing lexicon.
😂
I never get tired of Alex’s stories. He’s incredibly understated, humble and honest.
His solo of El Cap is even more amazing to me now, knowing he took a shit along the way
I didn't hear Caldwell's story yet, but having a go while unroped and hanging one-handed above the abyss is gonna be pretty hard to beat.
Whoa, strange to see you here, my favourite factorio man
If ever I needed an illustration of just how voraciously I gobble up Honnold content…
Video about Alex taking a dump? Yes please.
please don't say gobble up in this context lol
Just GOBBLED it up
@@holliswilliams8426 My apologies! Actually, I listened later to the entire interview at the link provided in the description - highly recommended (if you haven’t already due to gobble-disgust)
Seems like you just need to free solo El Cap to get enlightened. You can see the love and compassion in his eyes. Truly inspirational personality.
"Dangerous Poops with Alex Honnold" is the content we didn't know we needed.
"Some of the puddles looked good"
😂
Lol such a bad take since stagnant water can be full of bacteria regardless of looks
A water filter would be worth carrying. They are so small.
@@runr100 nah dude you gotta be bold
2:50
I shit my pants watching him climb with no ropes! 😬
😂
This man is amazing. I met him at a climbing gym in the Bay Area, absolutely awesome human. I should of known he could handle any shituation 😂
This was gold! The stuff we didn't know we needed to know!
And I thought it was a catastrophe shitting my pants just being out on a long run! That's why this guy is a legend!
Happened to me, I had to shit behind a parked billboard truck, would not recommend lol
I went running one time and literally had to drop my drawers off a main road and take a dump at like mile 8 or something. When it hits you, there's nothing you can do. I'm just glad I didn't end up on the nightly news because I was afraid I would.
Did you happen to see Eminem while you were dumping?
@@collinsmcraewith all that chocolate running down his legs sure he has
@@SolarSourcerer888 He edited his comment. He mentioned he was near 8 mile before.
Alex's free solo of El Capitan is the greatest physical/athletic accomplishment by a human in the history of humans.!
Huh, interesting - so that is what he meant when he said "nobody wants to see that" when answering a question whether he wanted to release a full unedited recording of his free solo :D
this brought me joy
That's how I got banned from my local bouldering gym.
Hahahah oops
I had the same experience in an indoor gym. Shit right off the ledge! Epic!
With all due respect to Alex... he wasn't taking a dump, the dump was taking him.
The charmin ad was the cherry on top
I only climb in the nude. And I’ll only wipe if I summit.
Man of God 🙏🏻
if theres a legend of our time, hes surely in competition. that shits brutal, no pun intended.
No sh*t?! 💩 Real. Now I don't feel so bad 😅 Nice set up and sound. Cool tunes. Great conversation! What equipment are you using? I love Alex!
Now That would be a documentary to watch! "Alex Loses Ballast"
But, Alex, it's neither sad nor embarrassing. It's just what went down and how you handled your business.
I am dying I love this so much!!!
There's a saying among PCT hikers. "You aren't a real PCT hiker unless you've crapped yourself." Now I'm sure it's not a for sure thing but more so a mind set because between the PCT and CDT there are plenty of times where there's a long stretch where there's no good spot to go. I can't imagine how it'd be rock climbing.
Tu ou are young guys but late 70s the climber who put all climbing on the map and superstar of climbing was Patrick Edlinger, check him out in La vie au bout des doigts and opera vertical. He was on every tv show and died home falling in the stairs RIP PATRICK
I'd rather find a turd than a body.
Great story🤣🤣🤣🥲
Bigfoot must hate him always chunking poop rocks down at them.
"Oh I feel like I'm dying"
"So I started soloing this route..."
I shit my pants just WATCHING him solo.
We need someone to create a very intense re-enactment of this. 😂
The virgin bathroom break versus the chad one-handed cliff dump
Alex poop will show up on Ebay for sure
😂 Great story.
When Alex says “it’s a bit much”,it’s way too much!
Extreme fans are wondering if they can find a Honnold shit in some spot.
Dude..... grim
What would it fetch on ebay? Provenance might prove difficult.
That feeling of needing to poo is horrible, I can’t imagine having that feeling while climbing without ropes, Christ
Of all the reasons to shit his pants...it was his dinner 😂😂
Imodium is always in my bag.
Immodium is awesome, if you took it and you still got the shits you just didnt take enough..when I was in egypt with a buddy we literally ate a handfull each morning, otherwise we wouldnt been able to leave to hotel, joke with the phramacist about us wanting the familie pack 😂
my algorithm has a lot of guitar videos in it when I saw this title I was a bit confused
I mean,,, it's not like we haven't wondered !!
quite the nugget
That's reality. Your human body continues to operate while your activity becomes outlandish. Crazy dangerous. Glad you are alive ! As you fly across the summits of the world you're bowels are stimulated by movement and fear. Like all of us non-outrageous humans you are attempting to be mindful of those below you but not always possible. Blees you, son !
Hopefully, no one below gets clobbered with a sh*tput.
So, how many incidents were captured by drone footage? Someone would probably enjoy watching those outtakes. Maybe best viewed in FF.
Legendary
Hilarious story. Only Alex could believably tell it. Sorry Free Solo cut his dump.
The Irony of this story and the Channels name😂😂😂💀
Respect
Bruh. You climb mountains with no rope. You can shit your pants and we would still believe that you are the coolest
Fascinating! Tell us more! How did it feel? How did it smell? Is this the famous "Alex Shits Himself at Red Rock" incident? EPIC, DUDE!
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what about sneezing? could that throw you off?
he is a big guy, looks heavy
Possible Trivia: El Cap used to be 500 feet but from all the climber's poo has grown to 3000?
Two climbers one rock...
Thats rough
6:09 all I know is that a rock large enough to contain my entire shit is NOT light enough for me to pickup and hurl off a cliff. Like what are you guys dropping cat size shits on a 6" boulder, where are these boulders on a sheer cliff face exactly? I have so many questions!
Wonder if those dudes ever rub one out while climbing. I’m sure they’ve all got epic stories.
I remember the last time I had to shit myself during a climb, I pulled my pants down and did my business like usual, but then the staff called the cops in the bouldering gym, I still wonder what i did wrong?
What is geardia?
giardia is the reason you filter water.
I took a poop watching free soloing. Scared me .
Limbed El capitan free solo
Shit happens. On mountains too.
Holy $hitt hearing this stories are fun amazing and hilarious
One handed shit, finished the climb with no shirt, but had a clean ass and was comfortable😅😂
Happy to see Alex has downgraded a lot of his free solos to an acceptable grade - I nearly shit my pants simply watching him free solo "Freerider" 5.13+ - over twenty years of committed climbing and I have yet to even top rope a 13! An amazing climb to be sure - I think for most climbers, getting married and having a kid definitely lends a different perspective to the idea of solo climbing. I hope Alex lives a long and happy life!!! Too many wonderful climbers die before their time - notably fellow Canadian Alpinist, Marc Andre LeClerc - RIP. too many others to mention here....BTW: I am in no way stating that free soloing 5.8 is safe. One of the earliest solo climbers I followed back in the 80s was a British climber named Derek Hersey....he died in 1993 while soloing the Steck/Salathe route down in Yosemite - only five or six pitches of 5.9 / 10a on this 18-pitch climb, but well within his ability - stay safe folks - cheers !!!
Yeah, I hope he lives a long life. I think after El Cap he had nothing else to top it so now he can settle down and relax a bit, and not push it.
Don’t worry about it. I’d definitely shit myself if I were climbing there or anywhere probably. I hate heights.
Despite all those incidents… he never once, felt fear or afraid of falling 😂😂
Always a good idea to free solo when you have the shits and are severely dehydrated.
That story is quite a "nugget"
In future time. Archaeologist gonna examine a rock hard poop. One gonna say “that was one brave super sh!t”
Giardia was bad. But the antibiotics were worse. I was absolutely miserable.
"I was working on the HERD" a poop story
Y do all the route names now sound like they are poop themed😂
I think it's "HURT", or "Honnold's Ultimate Redrock Traverse"
Imagine if someone is climbing just below him
I never shat my pants soloing but then again I am not a climber but just a guitarist. I did knock over my pint once with the headstock tho, but only because this girl dressed as a vampire bit my ear hard enough to draw blood while pouring a glass of lukewarm champagne down my pants. Hazards to any occupation I guess.
Clicked on this video thinking it was about guitar soloing....
Oh they mean literally
I thought the thumbnail was some sort of clickbait but nah dude literally shit himself lol
Imagine if he did BJJ
With that strength
One time I had to do a shit put in a climbing gym.
Got to drop the kids off at the pool!
He's drinking a year old puddle water... Just wow. XD
I remember this time…I had a good friend that died because he slipped on some unknown brown liquid..now that I know that it was your shit I’m very disappointed
All these route names sound like a skit making fun of stoners talking about strains.
Alex, do roller coasters scare you?
Good question. I know for a lot of people, they're scared of roller coasters because they're not in control of what happens. They're on a track and it's going to take them where it takes them. Whereas a free solo climber would feel in control of every single movement.
@@fakecubedFree solo climbers also know that not everything that happens is within their control. Rocks can give way.
Alex's brain doesn't experience fear the way ours does. His amygdala stays relaxed when ours would freak out. That was in Free Solo.
"Some puddles looked good" and "disaster poop" are two phrases that shouldn't be used in the same story
Alex, unique solo climber, and the older he gets, the more nerdy que seems to be. I think his brain/psyquis is different from mots people. He expresses little emotion, he is super rational which allows him to speak of topics in a straight total honest way with no filters (like death as "consequence" of not executing accurately and effectively the climb.) which for the most of us would sound kind of shocking
NOTHING LIKE A GOOD SHIT STORY
i shit my pants just watching you so dont worry its ok
😁😊
Good thing it was getting dark, no one would want to see that. 😳 There’s a lot a poop stories out there, someone should write a book….not sure how a crappy book would sell though. 😂
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Alex had to get shit off his chest 😳
What if Alex had needed a shit when he soloed the Burj in Dubai?