Alone On the Wall: Alex Honnold And the Ultimate Limits of Adventure
“He lives in Boulder, after all, right in the thick of the climbing scene.
I didn’t anticipate, though, the explosion of postings on the Internet about the climb. I went online to check them out. My first reaction was surprise. Oh, wow, I’m in print! That’s cool. Somebody had even dug up a photo of me climbing. That’s my photo! I bragged to myself.
There was also, of course, the undercurrent of posters who wondered whether the free solo of Moonlight Buttress was an April Fools’ joke. But one thi...ng I’ve always appreciated about the climbing community, after so many of my climbs by now have gone undocumented by film or photos or unverified by witnesses, is that people have taken me at my word. In April 2008, no one on the Internet was accusing me of perpetrating a hoax. If the free solo of Moonlight Buttress was bogus, it was some poster who was lying about it—goofing on the credulity of the Supertopo audience, maybe.
I still could not have imagined ever becoming a sponsored professional climber.MoreLess
I didn’t anticipate, though, the explosion of postings on the Internet about the climb. I went online to check them out. My first reaction was surprise. Oh, wow, I’m in print! That’s cool. Somebody had even dug up a photo of me climbing. That’s my photo! I bragged to myself.
There was also, of course, the undercurrent of posters who wondered whether the free solo of Moonlight Buttress was an April Fools’ joke. But one thi...ng I’ve always appreciated about the climbing community, after so many of my climbs by now have gone undocumented by film or photos or unverified by witnesses, is that people have taken me at my word. In April 2008, no one on the Internet was accusing me of perpetrating a hoax. If the free solo of Moonlight Buttress was bogus, it was some poster who was lying about it—goofing on the credulity of the Supertopo audience, maybe.
I still could not have imagined ever becoming a sponsored professional climber.MoreLess
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