Friday, December 24, 2021

Don't Look Down

I watched the first third or so of The Alpinist over a late lunch yesterday. It's a great documentary, and when I watch it, I understand what normal folks get out of watching scary movies. 

See, regular horror flicks don't do much for me. I know that ghosts and zombies and vampires and stuff aren't real. But you know what is real? Gravity. The frickin' ground. And just watching that stuff makes me horripilate and my palms sweat.

Anyway, the climbing this LeClerc kid did was just nuts. When Alex frickin' Honnold says things that amount to "This guy's a wild man and I have no idea how he does the stuff he does", that's saying something.