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[OtayBW]

"The Moon Landing of Free-Soloing"

Wow! Amazing! What skill! What ballz!

[Cicli]

Yeah, no.

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[Matthew]

Absolute, pure lunacy. And incredibly impressive.

[gasman]

I think it's one of the most incredible athletic achievements ever.
This guy agrees:

http://eveningsends.com/is-alex-honn...hievementever/

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[sales guy]

If I remember right some guy who looks like Tom Cruise did it a long time ago. It was even done on film. I think his name was Ethan Hunt.
So no biggie.

[Louis]

Inf'ngsane. What more can you say?

The focus, the strength, the endurance, the skill...

My knees start to shake if I stand at the edge of my roof, only two stories up. I can usually calm myself down and proceed with whatever gutter repair I was up there doing, but that's 1 / 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 what Honnold's accomplished.

About all you can do now is wish him the best in the future.

[batman1425]

The guy is a climbing legend. In addition to this historic free solo, he holds speed records up several of the worlds biggest ascents including the solo (not all free solo, but about 90% of it was) triple crown of Yosemite. The 3 biggest peaks - Mt. Watkins, El Cap, and Half Dome non-stop, back to back to back in 18hrs 50min. Unreal.

[notsew]

Madness. Utter madness.

[Tickdoc]

It's an incredible achievement.

What will be even more incredible is if he makes it to old age.

[rodcad]

Never even considered rock climbing and never will. What he did is astounding......

Yet, if one spends their life totally focused and preparing for something like this, I would presume the risks are greatly diminished. I would even wager the risks are a lot less than the guys who do the wingsuit thing, where wind comes into play. Huge risk with climbing still obviously, but if every handhold and foot placement is carefully thought out and rehearsed beforehand.......Seems like this guy has mastered controlling his mind and body to another level.

[batman1425]

There is a good documentary - Valley Uprising, which features him, among some other legendary Yosemite climbers and their pursuits. They talk briefly about John Bachar, who was among the first to push free-soloing and who died at age 52 in a free-solo accident.

This illustrated a point that struck me hard about the sport and the calculated risk. It is a pursuit that allows no mistakes and nearly no bailout plan when things start to go pear shaped. Calculated risk yes, but at some point, the body will not continue to support the pursuit. An experienced, driven, world class athlete may have difficulty accepting when that day has come after a lifetime of pushing the boundaries of what us mere mortals consider "possible" and the result could be a fingertip worth of lethal mistake. Sobering to consider.

[Matthew]

How in the hell would you even know which route to take specifically? The face of that is huge and you would think there would be spots of just sheer smoothness. What do you hold onto? And how do your hands not completely seize up. I get scared on a ladder!! This is just insane.