Even the cameraman turns his head away at times and cannot watch, leaving the film running while he takes a moment to collect himself. Years in the making, Honnold sets off on the climb, which is set to take four hours. Yes, free climbed, meaning no ropes, no safety net, no way out – just up slowly, or down super-fast. The Alex Honnold to whom Nesbo refers is the notorious American climber who free climbed the 914m tall (3,000ft) El Capitan rock wall in Yosemite National Park in California. "So, it's sort of an introspective journey into your own mind and your own mental limitations because you will find those limitations. It's also an interesting way to get to know yourself, too. I don't like putting my life in danger but I do like being scared a little bit. "Sports climbing, you have this subjective feeling of fear but, objectively you're quite safe and I like that. So, as Nesbo sees it, it's a safe enough practice. The lead format Nesbo enjoys involves climbing a little way and then clipping onto a bolt already secured in the rock, so should a fall occur, the climber only falls the distance from the last clipped-on rope. I have this more than average fear of heights and so it was a way of overcoming that fear." "That was one of the reasons why I started climbing. "I probably find climbing more scary than the average climber," Nesbo told in an exclusive interview in June, ahead of the Villars Climbing World Cup in Switzerland, starting 30 June.
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