The HURT

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This month, Alex completed his multi-year project to traverse Red Rock’s iconic skyline. In 32 hours, Alex ticked off 35 miles, 23k feet of climbing up to 5.11- and 20 named summits to complete the HURT – Honnold's Ultimate Red Rock Traverse. Fitz and Alex’s conversation digs into what went into this cutting edge effort.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Fitz here.
0:05.0	A few weeks ago, Alex completed the hurt,
0:08.0	Honnold's ultimate Red Rock Traverse, a project he'd been working on for a few years.
0:13.0	It was a link up of the stunning set of canyons, peaks, and must-do climbing routes outside of Las Vegas,
0:20.0	an absolutely incredible feat of endurance.
0:22.7	I caught up with him the day afterwards.
0:25.1	He was worked, but totally psyched.
0:26.8	We both figured that this little adventure
0:28.3	should probably have a home on the internet somewhere.
0:31.1	I felt like it was an intriguing window
0:32.7	into how a cutting-edge endurance feat comes together.
0:35.8	We talk red rocks,
0:37.3	the probability of getting acquainted with the cactus,
0:39.6	and the healing power of Oreos.
0:49.7	How was it?
0:51.3	Like, I mean, were you psyched on it?
0:53.6	I was about to say, like, oh, it was great, you know, really nice. And I was like, ah, you know,
0:57.2	no, it was good. Yeah, yeah, I did the thing. It was, uh, it was, it was good. I mean,
1:03.1	the thing was something like that is by the end,. And then the second 12 hours, you know, you're like, okay, I'm persevering.
1:14.3	And then by the second day, it's really not very fun anymore.
1:19.3	So here are the total spec.
1:21.1	So what I did.
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