It is an documentary. My hands were sweating watching the climb, I was so tense. I cannot fathom how he is wired to want to do such things, but it’s amazing to watch. Leave it to a damn lib to ruin the purity of the subject matter by finding a way to hurl a TDS loogie into his own article. They just cannot stop themselves, even for a moment.
It is an EXCELLENT documentary, I meant!! Argh. Need more coffee.
The complex spiritual issue drawn in the movie of how dedicated Alex is to living his dream has led him to seemingly care little for his life which he explains as an intesiified caring borne by wanting the exhilaration of daring himself to defy the fear of death.
Either way you look at it, I think the athleticism is phenomenal.
Also I think the editorial writer is a complete asshole.
“My hands were sweating watching the climb, I was so tense. I cannot fathom how he is wired to want to do such things”
Somebody once wired up a few of these extreme climbers, EEG I suppose it was, to see if their reaction to heights is different.
An unsurprisingly it is. They are wired differently. They have zero fear reaction to heights. Some people peg the fear meter just looking at a picture taken from a high place. These characters never budge the needle when they are dangling in real life from some insanely high cliff face.