“The thing is, anybody can be happy and cozy... Nobody achieves anything great because they are happy and cozy” --Alex Honnold
Quoted from Free Solo, a 2018 documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, in June 2017. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Solo
Alex Honnold (born 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider), a climb described in The New York Times as “one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold
See the tortured artist trope: a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is sometimes associated with mental illness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortured_artist
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“The thing is, anybody can be happy and cozy... Nobody achieves anything great because they are happy and cozy” --Alex Honnold
Quoted from Free Solo, a 2018 documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, in June 2017. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Solo
Alex Honnold (born 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider), a climb described in The New York Times as “one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold
See the tortured artist trope: a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is sometimes associated with mental illness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortured_artist
CC BY-SA portrait of Alex Honnold by Cmichel67 via Wikimedia commons w.wiki/9mAj