Is alex honnold gay

Alex Honnold (born August 17, ) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. Alex Honnold is continuing his reign as a girl dad. The Free Solo climber, 38, and wife Sanni McCandless have welcomed their second baby together, another daughter, a rep for the couple confirms. On June 3, , my boyfriend, Alex Honnold, became the first person to free-solo El Capitan, a 3,foot wall in Yosemite National Park.

It was an achievement compared to the lunar landing. Pro rock climber Alex Honnold and Sanni McCandless just said “I do”—again! After canceling their original wedding plans due to the pandemic, the couple wed last September in an intimate. Alex Honnold lived up to his name by forgetting to mention his engagement in his year end recap.

“I love you so much. But also I love climbing more, just to be totally clear, climbing will always be my #1. Anyway, will you marry me?” -Alex Honnold, probably. Sanni's engagement post was captioned "He said, do you want to keep doing what we're doing?. When you're just playing by yourself, anything you do is going to be something that has never been done before. Not a lot though. It's kind of out of vogue, people don't really do that much anymore because….

Laughs I think some of that is cultural stuff. In the seventies and eighties, there were more people free soloing, it was slightly more common, and I think part of that is that climbing has gotten safer. Climbing used to be extremely countercultural and fringe, this niche outrageous activity. And now it's much more mainstream, much more accepted.

I walked over to the climbing wall here in town today and a bunch of folks are on their lunch break climbing. These are not people who are part of a counterculture, you know, these are like, bankers and stuff in central London. In you got an MRI scan to determine if there was something in your brain that makes you experience fear differently than the rest of us.

I mean, it wasn't exactly rigorous science but basically the results were just that through lots of exposure, I'd sort of desensitized myself to certain kinds of stimulus, which makes total sense. If you practice something you get better at it or you become less sensitive to it — so I saw the results as totally normal. That makes perfect sense to me. It seemed to suggest that you are some sort of psychopath! But would you say that you, or any extreme athlete, has less fear of death?

I've always been afraid of death. I've never wanted to die. Last year, I watched this guy die in Red Rock. It was this horrible freak accident thing. He fell and he cracked his head and basically just bled out. That was the first time I'd ever actually seen a climbing accident like that. It was kind of sobering — he was even wearing a helmet — it was a reminder of how dangerous climbing can be if things go wrong even when you have all the ropes on.

No, I mean, seeing what happened to this guy or even having known people that have died in accidents doesn't really make it easier or harder.

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I still don't want to die. You try to learn from accidents that happen. You try to take some kind of lesson from it, but ultimately you're still always doing your absolute best to not die in an accident. I probably have a more nuanced relationship with death now because I've thought about it a lot more. I've talked about death a lot more since appearing in the documentary, Free Solo. I actually did a panel discussion with Philippe a couple years ago, and I was really excited about it because he was a big inspiration for me.

I saw that film, Man on Wire , maybe six, seven years ago or something. And I couldn't help think of it in terms of El Cap. Well, certainly some, you know what I mean?