{"id":10687,"date":"2018-11-06T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T08:58:07","slug":"fearless-the-story-of-alex-honnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/11\/fearless-the-story-of-alex-honnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless &#8211; the story of Alex Honnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/31\/opinion\/what-if-he-falls.html\">NYT<\/a> has a disturbing story about Alex Honnold. What if he falls?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alex Honnold, 33, is the world\u2019s foremost free soloist. To \u201cfree solo\u201d means to climb without ropes or any safety gear. Mr. Honnold began climbing without ropes as a teenager. As he got better at climbing on his own, his aspirations and goals grew bigger. For years, he had his eye on free soloing the 3,000-foot peak of Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan. In 2017, he decided to go for it, a superhuman accomplishment that makes up the arc of our new feature film, \u201cFree Solo.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-vOcJtlTQAY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How free solo looks like<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Phl82D57P58\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and Honnold&#8217;s comments<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6iM6M_7wBMc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is the difference between the average attention seeker and Honnold?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/39\/sport\/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber\">nautil.us\/issue\/39\/<\/a> has an answer showing results of a MRI scan<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Purl scrolls down, down, through the Rorschach topography of Honnold\u2019s brain, until, with the suddenness of a photo bomb, a pair of almond-shaped nodes materialize out of the morass. \u201cHe has one!\u201d says Joseph, and Purl laughs. [&#8230;]<br \/>\nInside the tube, Honnold is looking at a series of about 200 images that flick past at the speed of channel surfing. The photographs are meant to disturb or excite. \u201cAt least in non-Alex people, these would evoke a strong response in the amygdala,\u201d says Joseph. \u201cI can\u2019t bear to look at some of them, to be honest.\u201d [&#8230;]\u00a0\u201cNowhere, at a decent threshold, was there amygdala activation\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After having watched \u00a0nowthe excellent National Geographic documentary, I do not believe so much in an anatomical curiosity. As his father was suffering to Asperger (according to his mother in the movie) I think the key is more with some unsual development combined with some excellent extrapyramidal reactions.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 01.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT has a disturbing story about Alex Honnold. What if he falls? Alex Honnold, 33, is the world\u2019s foremost free soloist. To \u201cfree solo\u201d means to climb without ropes or any safety gear. Mr. Honnold began climbing without ropes as a teenager. As he got better at climbing on his own, his aspirations and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/11\/fearless-the-story-of-alex-honnold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fearless &#8211; the story of Alex Honnold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2993],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12422,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions\/12422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}