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Alex Arnold.

Greetings.

Hello.

Very nice to meet you in person and very nice to have you here on the show. I'm super psyched that you decided to come and join us because I watched one of your videos. I've seen several of them online for folks who don't know.

Alex is what you call a free solo climber,

is that how you would describe it?

Yeah, you could say that.

And he essentially climbs gigantic scary mountains

with no aid.

You don't have ropes, you just climb it with your hands and your feet.

Yeah, I mean occasionally.

Occasionally.

Yeah. Well you...

Normally I climb with ropes, that's just special occasions, you know.

But you do it a lot.

I mean, there's a lot of videos of you doing this. You say it occasionally for the average human being if they did something like this once they would sit around the campfire kids. Grandpa's didn't tell you about how he climbed the mountain with his bare hands.

And everybody would go on and on about it, like it was a once in a lifetime, insane, you know, death-defying event.

How many times have you done it?

Well, how many times have a free solo climbed?

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