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Would you include Alex Honnold in the Mt Rushmore of America's greatest athletes?
Jim Thorpe, Joe Lewis, Tom Brady, Jesse Owens, Allyson Felix, Babe Ruth all possible candidates.
Replies to: Would you include Alex Honnold in the Mt Rushmore of America's greatest athletes?
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Honnold is a shithead.
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Absolutely. His Yosemite gambit alone gets him there.
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Sure...since he's the only one of them that could climb it without a rope...
He has the advantage of an amygdala that doesn't fire like everyone else's.
(Unfortunately he will eventually perish while climbing...which is why many people watch.)
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He seems like an odd case, compared to some of the others.
He seems to be fearless but not a thrill seeker. Some of the people who also mostly free soloed up El Capitan died while wingsuiting into Yosemite. Admittedly my knowledge of AH is very limited but he doesn't seem like that. Hopefully he will survive to a ripe old age.
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I know very little about him other than having watched Free Solo…which I found terrifying to even …
…warch…and I knew the outcome.
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