Name: Alex Honnold Got Caught in a Snowstorm and Learned a Lesson About Humility
Uploaded: 2021-03-30T17:59:48.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Alex Honnold Got Caught in a Snowstorm and Learned a Lesson About Humility' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-30. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience I mean I think that is kind of a root of anxieties
like modern life like
things trigger fight or flight that shouldn't necessarily right it's like
stress at work and
your boss or whatever and it like triggers that same thing yes but um yeah it
is true that that
in my life at least the things that trigger fight or flight are like legitimate
life or death sorts
of situations where it's like oh you you know you are about to fall off a cliff
or like oh you know
like the storm is coming and you're out in the middle of nowhere and you're
like I'm about to
get worked you know it's like right like typically when I feel that kind of
major anxiety it's like
for a real reason and um I mean it is interesting yeah I mean it is it is
appropriate that way it's
like it's like it's like the correct outlet for that kind of stress it really
does completely make sense
as to and also most of the guys that I've met that do what you do and I don't
know if I've met anybody
that does exactly what you do but guys that climb a lot they're pretty chill
yeah it's a pretty well
dude I think part of that is because you get worked by nature so often that
then when you're in sort of
normal life everything feels pretty relaxed because you're kind of like oh I'm
physically comfortable
I'm fed I'm hydrated I'm like you know my body is fine I'm not about to just
get hammered by by nature
you know yeah like yeah that's my my philosophy about really difficult exercise
it's really important
because it makes other things seem easy and the stresses of regular I think we
have those just like
a standard base level of stress and when you artificially impose a higher base
level electively
like whether it's through climbing or other kind of exercise totally whatever
you're doing it makes
the rest of life seem easy seem easy yeah dude I had uh earlier this year there
was a winter storm
warning for Vegas it does snow in Vegas sometimes in the mountains especially
like get get snow there's a
winter storm warning for this like storm coming through and I'd climbed like 20
days in a row
basically or something and I wanted to use the storm day to try to hike this
one section of the traverse
that I'm trying to do of all these peaks I figured I would like take advantage
of a non-climbing day to do
the one walking section to like figure out where the route goes and so I went
out in this crazy storm and
when I started it was like snowing a little and I was like in crazy wind it's
really cold and I was trying
out these new like waterproof layers just to see how actually I wanted to try
them out before the jungle to see if
they'd be good jungle layers and um and so I go up into the mountain anyway
long story short I get
completely worked it turns out visibility is nothing I didn't know where I was
going I get
lost in the mountains it and it wound up being basically too difficult of
terrain to travel
through uh in the snow like uh because I'd sort of taken it for granted but in
red rock on those
mountains you you walk on these like exposed sandstone slabs all the time but
when you cover
them in like six inches of snow it's like really kind of horrifying you can't
just like walk up the
slabs anymore it's like now a total tobogganing death trap where you're gonna
like slide down you know so I was
like anyway so I go up quite a ways eventually I just had to give up and like
turn around but I'm
now you know 2,500 feet like up this mountainside and then I turn around and
then it all is way more
socked in I couldn't even see my tracks anymore because everything's like
filled in and visibility
is nothing and so I had like a Garmin watch on so I kept like looking at the
little track on my watch
being like am I to the left or the right of the track that I came up you know
like no idea where I am
full mountainside keep falling down and you know there's like you're falling
yeah but like sliding
over things or tripping on rocks it's really steep hillside with like and you're
stepping through you
know say six or eight inches of fresh powder but underneath it's still like
loose rocks and
cactuses and things like that so it's like you know the terrain is it's not
like a snow base or
something right like you're just stepping through it and falling over anyway so
I fell into cactuses a
bunch of times and so the thing is I was totally hypothermic completely wet
totally worked
and my hand had all these cactus thorns in it and my other hand was too numb to
like manipulate anything
so I wound up like biting the biggest thorns out and then just left the rest of
them because it's
just I was just I just couldn't use my hands and just keep staggering down the
mountain anyway eventually
I like made it back to the car made it back to the house and then I had my wife
pull all the thorns
out because I like I couldn't really use my hand that was so worked but I was
kind of like but that
was like my rest day adventure you know what I mean that's like I mean it
turned out being it turned
out being way more yeah yeah I mean I was hoping that it was going to go better
than that and it
didn't really work out but that is kind of the point that when you take on that
elective love you know
I was like I had a goal that I wanted to piece together this section of a hike
didn't work out
that way I wound up you know building a bunch of character instead but you know
you're just like
that's just a normal day out you know it's like when you're adventuring in the
mountains sometimes
sometimes those winter storm advisors actually happen you know it's just easy
living in the desert
you're like it'll be fine it'll be fine and then you're like no it was not fine
it was totally
crunk that's pretty crazy and that that does speak to what we're saying like if
you're doing that kind of
yeah and that's just like a normal day you know like that's not even like the
crazy like oh I
thought I was gonna die I was just like I was just deeply uncomfortable and
like sort of on edge for
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