Alex Honnold Free Climber , Balls of Steel

[NarcissisticDeity]

This dude is epic  

[The Keto Kid]

Fuckin crazy...how the hell do you get back down from there?

[tommywishbone]

I've stood right there... you walk a few miles north, get in a car and drive back to the Valley floor. Those are my shoes. El Cap is across the valley, far left... I am on the summit of Half Dome in this shot.

[Ropo]

This dude is epic  

No balls, just stupid enough to do that. Just like any other "tough guy" who do freaky things only because he isn't smart enough to realize how stupid things he really is doing. These stupids are ready to lost their life while seeking the fame among internet morons. How cool is that? 

[Bevo]

These kinds of stupid shit mostly white people do, Hebrews would shoot each other and rob a 7 eleven for 20 dollars and swisher sweets

[nzmusclemonster]

I've stood right there... you walk a few miles north, get in a car and drive back to the Valley floor. Those are my shoes. El Cap is across the valley, far left... I am on the summit of Half Dome in this shot.

Brutal douchebag salomon speedcross shoes, $3 walmart socks and casper the ghost tan.

[SF1900]

Not impressive. He practiced climbing two times with safety equipment. Would have been much more impressive without the two safety climbs before the climb without the safety equipment.

[loco]

[Skylge]

Guy probably is manic depressive, is the case with many skydivers / extreme risk takers

[Grape Ape]

Brutal douchebag salomon speedcross shoes, $3 walmart socks and casper the ghost tan.

Yup.....I just picked up a new pair too....

Might grab some Hokas as well for asphalt...

[NaturalWonder83]

No balls, just stupid enough to do that. Just like any other "tough guy" who do freaky things only because he isn't smart enough to realize how stupid things he really is doing. These stupids are ready to lost their life while seeking the fame among internet morons. How cool is that? 

agreed 100%-he's a moron who will prob die from it at some point
When he dies it will be deserved-just like morons who interact with lions, snakes, bungee jumpers, etc
Not heroic or incredible
Just idiots

[Grape Ape]

agreed 100%-he's a moron who will prob die from it at some point
When he dies it will be deserved-just like morons who interact with lions, snakes, bungee jumpers, etc
Not heroic or incredible
Just idiots

I have talked with some bungee jumpers and never felt threatened.

[Obvious Gimmick]

Uses chalk = pussy

[mazrim]

Why are there two climbers on the side? What are they going to do? Yell "Goodbye!" if he slips?

[NaturalWonder83]

all right cool-so it's completely fine for a new father with a little baby at home to start bungee and sky diving and motorcycle racing so they can die in a freak accident -then his kid can grow up fatherless-cool bro!

[The Abdominal Snoman]

agreed 100%-he's a moron who will prob die from it at some point
When he dies it will be deserved-just like morons who interact with lions, snakes, bungee jumpers, etc
Not heroic or incredible
Just idiots

There is nothing in any humans life that's ever existed that matters. In time, everything is forgotten. If he falls and dies, so be it. It doesn't matter. If he lives to 100 years old and cures cancer, it won't matter in the long term.

[Bevo]

all right cool-so it's completely fine for a new father with a little baby at home to start bungee and sky diving and motorcycle racing so they can die in a freak accident -then his kid can grow up fatherless-cool bro!

It's called selfish and these guys are delusional like the guys from blackstone labs Cody "punchable face" Montgomery

[ratherbebig]

There is nothing in any humans life that's ever existed that matters. In time, everything is forgotten. If he falls and dies, so be it. It doesn't matter. If he lives to 100 years old and cures cancer, it won't matter in the long term.

your post doesnt matter. so fuck off

[Costanza]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/science-shows-alex-honnold-feels-no-fear/news-story/57b006f2ea85b6f913c69e5915e0fbd6


YOU may have already heard about Alex Honnold, who climbed the mighty El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any safety gear on the weekend.

The elite rock climber reached the summit in about four hours using only his hands and feet. The 31-year-old became the first person to climb the 3000-foot (914-metre) granite wall alone without a safety harness or ropes to catch him if he fell.
If you do already know his story, you may also be wondering how the hell he had the courage to attempt such a feat in the first place. Is he crazy or stupid? Or both?


Well, science has the answer.

Neuroscientists recently studied Honnold’s brain. They put him in a large machine and then quickly showed him a series of terrifying and off-putting images — toilets overflowing with faeces, mangled and bloody faces, a climber dangling over the void — the sort of stuff that would send most people shivering, gagging, or both.

It didn’t register with Honnold. They hadn’t seen anything like it. His amygdala, the part of the brain that reacts to fear, lay dormant.
“Maybe his amygdala is not firing — he’s having no internal reactions to these stimuli,” said neuroscientist Dr. Jane Joseph. “But it could be the case that he has such a well-honed regulatory system that he can say, ‘OK, I’m feeling all this stuff, my amygdala is going off,’ but his frontal cortex is just so powerful that it can calm him down.”

Medically, it would seem, Honnold does not experience fear. At least not in the way that you or I would. Or, if he does experience it, he requires a lot more to set it off than anyone this team of neuroscientists at least has ever studied.

What Honnold does have in spades, from a neurological perspective, is a tendency to seek out sensations, a drive nearly double that of your average brain based on their study. This pushes him, of course, but it also hints at something darker, something addictive.


Dzamn, same as ESF

[nzmusclemonster]

Yup.....I just picked up a new pair too....

Might grab some Hokas as well for asphalt...

I only knew because I have a pair as well 

I'd love a pair of Hokas but importing them to NZ is so dam expensive

[Simple Simon]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/science-shows-alex-honnold-feels-no-fear/news-story/57b006f2ea85b6f913c69e5915e0fbd6


YOU may have already heard about Alex Honnold, who climbed the mighty El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any safety gear on the weekend.

The elite rock climber reached the summit in about four hours using only his hands and feet. The 31-year-old became the first person to climb the 3000-foot (914-metre) granite wall alone without a safety harness or ropes to catch him if he fell.
If you do already know his story, you may also be wondering how the hell he had the courage to attempt such a feat in the first place. Is he crazy or stupid? Or both?


Well, science has the answer.

Neuroscientists recently studied Honnold’s brain. They put him in a large machine and then quickly showed him a series of terrifying and off-putting images — toilets overflowing with faeces, mangled and bloody faces, a climber dangling over the void — the sort of stuff that would send most people shivering, gagging, or both.

It didn’t register with Honnold. They hadn’t seen anything like it. His amygdala, the part of the brain that reacts to fear, lay dormant.
“Maybe his amygdala is not firing — he’s having no internal reactions to these stimuli,” said neuroscientist Dr. Jane Joseph. “But it could be the case that he has such a well-honed regulatory system that he can say, ‘OK, I’m feeling all this stuff, my amygdala is going off,’ but his frontal cortex is just so powerful that it can calm him down.”

Medically, it would seem, Honnold does not experience fear. At least not in the way that you or I would. Or, if he does experience it, he requires a lot more to set it off than anyone this team of neuroscientists at least has ever studied.

What Honnold does have in spades, from a neurological perspective, is a tendency to seek out sensations, a drive nearly double that of your average brain based on their study. This pushes him, of course, but it also hints at something darker, something addictive.


Dzamn, same as ESF

that actually means he is a psychopath, not lacking a fear gene.

[Ropo]

agreed 100%-he's a moron who will prob die from it at some point
When he dies it will be deserved-just like morons who interact with lions, snakes, bungee jumpers, etc
Not heroic or incredible
Just idiots

Who remember these guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bachar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Potter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman

Only difference is that these guys has fall to their death. People forget them as soon as they hit the ground..

[Bevo]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/science-shows-alex-honnold-feels-no-fear/news-story/57b006f2ea85b6f913c69e5915e0fbd6


YOU may have already heard about Alex Honnold, who climbed the mighty El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any safety gear on the weekend.

The elite rock climber reached the summit in about four hours using only his hands and feet. The 31-year-old became the first person to climb the 3000-foot (914-metre) granite wall alone without a safety harness or ropes to catch him if he fell.
If you do already know his story, you may also be wondering how the hell he had the courage to attempt such a feat in the first place. Is he crazy or stupid? Or both?


Well, science has the answer.

Neuroscientists recently studied Honnold’s brain. They put him in a large machine and then quickly showed him a series of terrifying and off-putting images — toilets overflowing with faeces, mangled and bloody faces, a climber dangling over the void — the sort of stuff that would send most people shivering, gagging, or both.

It didn’t register with Honnold. They hadn’t seen anything like it. His amygdala, the part of the brain that reacts to fear, lay dormant.
“Maybe his amygdala is not firing — he’s having no internal reactions to these stimuli,” said neuroscientist Dr. Jane Joseph. “But it could be the case that he has such a well-honed regulatory system that he can say, ‘OK, I’m feeling all this stuff, my amygdala is going off,’ but his frontal cortex is just so powerful that it can calm him down.”

Medically, it would seem, Honnold does not experience fear. At least not in the way that you or I would. Or, if he does experience it, he requires a lot more to set it off than anyone this team of neuroscientists at least has ever studied.

What Honnold does have in spades, from a neurological perspective, is a tendency to seek out sensations, a drive nearly double that of your average brain based on their study. This pushes him, of course, but it also hints at something darker, something addictive.


Dzamn, same as ESF

Sounds like how serial killers are made

[falco]

He lacks the fear gene. Many men suffer from this mutation.

[ratherbebig]

"Neuroscientists recently studied Honnold’s brain. They put him in a large machine and then quickly showed him a series of terrifying and off-putting images — toilets overflowing with faeces, mangled and bloody faces, a climber dangling over the void the Random Pics-thread on getbig.com — the sort of stuff that would send most people shivering, gagging, or both.

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