Alex Honnold Breaks Down Extreme Climbing In Movies & TV | GQ Sports
Professional rock climber and free-solo ascent master Alex Honnold is back to break down more rock climbing scenes from …
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December 4, 2024
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Also Clint Eastwood is maneuvering in blue jeans and hard, inflexible hiking boots. Ouch.
"Oh yea btw I climbed the Burj Khalifa like Tom Cruise in mission impossible" holy this guy is a chad.
28:55 Nepalese climbers are not "local" to K2 which is in Pakistan. The locals are Balti.
4:30 would that rope not be for the backpack incase he dropped it or needed to cut it?
Yea, there's basically 3 options these days for ledges/sleeping, the porta-ledge as he said, the hammock style (there's one called the taco that seems pretty popular), and then there's this kinda weird cross between a porta-ledge, a hammock, and an air mattress that some people swear by.
4:00 this is (one reason) why high-liners use segmented rope(well, webbing) nowadays, the backup line is attached at each segment, so if any single segment breaks, then it gets caught by the backup after like 5-10ft.
What are the magnet gloves even magnetized to if he's slapping the window?
I hate the background music I hate the transitions
I was totally expecting vertical limit and the other Tom Cruise rock climbing scene
30:54 definitely TM Herbert’s son Tommy
His first point is not so true. We are afraid of hights aswell as falling. It has to do with dimensions around us. In rock climbing its not my biggest problem but indoors im so scared. If I stand in a church looking far up on the ceiling I get scared. People are not normally afraid of dying because its an unknown concept, we are afraid of what we feel when we feel it. Such as being on stage, looking up or down, and so on.
Honnold has massive ears
Furious that thy didnt do the princess bride
Crazy bro mentioned climbing the Burj K like it was a hike
Nepalese team – K2 – local mountain?
Safe to say this guy has balls of steel or should I say sandstone
bro is THE tom cruise
He never blinks.
I absolutely love this! My dad loves to point out bloopers in any movie. He was a carpenter by trade until he retired, but a professional movie blooper spotter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You couldn't smash into the rock for a hold, you aren't wonder woman!!
31:20 I aspire to be this casual about things one day
Speaking of building toughness in kids, my elementary school gym teacher had us 1st or 2nd graders climb a thick rope all the way to the high gym ceiling — without any belaying ropes or safety gear, other than a pad at the bottom and a hulk of a gym teacher standing underneath, who would presumably catch us if we fell… lol – I doubt schools would get away with doing that these days – this was early 80s.
Thats kinda the point of captain fantastic. Hes a neglectful father, who ends up in trouble with cps.
Come on…K2 is in a different range.
Why these lists never include The Mountain with Spencer Tracy? Is super unknown and super cool climbing movie. Clint Eastwood made E.S. because he was into climbing. Respect.
Pick up a paddle and go play some pickleball, that's more fun than climbing
My head spins and i feel dizzy even if i look out of my bedroom window. I am nog afraid of falling nor of dying because there are bars. How do you call that if not fear of heights?
Alex Honnold feels like the exact guy to watch a mission impossible clip an go "oh, I done that a few years ago"
Insane.
I have a hard time just watching Tom Cruise cutting through the glass on the Burj without squirming in my chair that is firmly planted to the ground.
K2 is in Pakistan, not Nepal.
The Burj Khalifa scenes were so scary for me
8:22 Hey a place ive actually been, and taken fotos outside the glass
That was my BIL's favorite expression: "I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of falling. 😂
I used to "chimney" climb doorframes as a child. 😁
always glad to see some criticism of Captain Fantastic. Easily the worst film I have ever seen in theaters. I cannot believe the non-critical reviews it got at the time.
Alex is such a guy. His voice is super monotonous but all of his content is entertaining af
Just noticed that he never blinks lol