Free Solo

practicing the moves over and over again. 458 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,697 I work through the fear, until it's just not scary anymore. 459 00:30:44,165 --> 00:30:45,664 Oh, no, no, no, no. 460 00:30:45,666 --> 00:30:49,004 Oh, so slippery. 461 00:30:49,270 --> 00:30:53,576 But, um, for years Freeblast has given me the heebie-jeebies. 462 00:30:54,609 --> 00:31:00,415 You're standing on tiny edges, small variations in the texture of the rock. 463 00:31:01,282 --> 00:31:05,084 If you slip, your hands can't hold you. 464 00:31:05,086 --> 00:31:09,256 It's just the two tiny points of contact that keep you from falling, and 465 00:31:09,258 --> 00:31:12,996 when you step up, there's only one. 466 00:31:13,394 --> 00:31:15,764 Oh. 467 00:31:23,704 --> 00:31:30,112 It's like, it looks so much better today than yesterday, but we'll see. 468 00:31:33,147 --> 00:31:36,449 I probably fell about 30 feet. 469 00:31:36,451 --> 00:31:40,754 We're up there, we're roped up, Sanni's belaying me, and then I just fell off, 470 00:31:40,756 --> 00:31:41,921 I don't know. 471 00:31:41,923 --> 00:31:44,623 I just, I don't even know how, I just, like, fell off. 472 00:31:44,625 --> 00:31:46,392 Show me how much you can go up and down on your own. 473 00:31:46,394 --> 00:31:49,395 It's, it's like, you know. 474 00:31:49,397 --> 00:31:51,664 I think this looks to me just like your straightforward ankle sprain. 475 00:31:51,666 --> 00:31:53,033 Okay. 476 00:31:53,035 --> 00:31:55,334 So, you know, we say ankle sprain, but more or less an ankle sprain 477 00:31:55,336 --> 00:31:56,469 is torn ligaments. 478 00:31:56,471 --> 00:31:57,872 - Yeah. - That's what it is. 479 00:31:57,874 --> 00:31:59,239 ...So what does that mean in terms of, uh, like hiking and stuff? 480 00:31:59,241 --> 00:32:02,542 I mean, if I just, like, immobilize it and then, uh, still just hike. 481 00:32:02,544 --> 00:32:04,577 Yeah, I mean, you gotta' get yourself through the first few days. 482 00:32:04,579 --> 00:32:05,813 Yeah. 483 00:32:05,815 --> 00:32:07,146 Um, but after that and it's just strengthening and rehab. 484 00:32:07,148 --> 00:32:10,116 Well, and actually, can I make it worse really, through activity? 485 00:32:10,118 --> 00:32:14,557 Um, you could probably do too much too soon. 486 00:32:21,829 --> 00:32:24,331 Wait, you don't need to keep that right. 487 00:32:24,333 --> 00:32:26,900 I can worry as much as I want internally, 488 00:32:26,902 --> 00:32:30,903 but if he doesn't do this stuff he'd regret it. 489 00:32:30,905 --> 00:32:35,709 If Alex and I got married and had kids, I would feel a lot more willing to say 490 00:32:35,711 --> 00:32:40,479 what I thought about what was acceptable risk or not. 491 00:32:40,481 --> 00:32:42,751 He should have put his shoe on. 492 00:32:45,621 --> 00:32:48,591 - Stubborn. - Stubborn. 493 00:32:55,730 --> 00:32:59,498 I thought you were, you know, walking and stuff now, I thought you're fine. 494 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:00,801 Oh, I am, but what. 495 00:33:00,803 --> 00:33:03,236 Doctors said you were supposed to push it, Alex, come on. 496 00:33:03,238 --> 00:33:04,804 Don't you want some watermelon? 497 00:33:04,806 --> 00:33:07,940 Oh, well, good thing you have a personal slave to do that for you. 498 00:33:07,942 --> 00:33:10,309 Uh-huh, I know, I'm pretty stoked about that. 499 00:33:10,311 --> 00:33:13,212 All right, um, is it gonna be that no matter how I do this, you're like, 500 00:33:13,214 --> 00:33:14,748 "Why did you do it that way?" 501 00:33:14,750 --> 00:33:16,382 I just want watermelon. 502 00:33:16,384 --> 00:33:18,351 I kind of wanted to blame Sanni to some extent because 503 00:33:18,353 --> 00:33:19,786 you're just like, "Whatever." 504 00:33:19,788 --> 00:33:21,321 I haven't been injured in, like, seven years and then it's like I'm 505 00:33:21,323 --> 00:33:24,224 hanging out with this girl that doesn't climb and I suddenly start getting 506 00:33:24,226 --> 00:33:25,659 injured all the time. 507 00:33:25,661 --> 00:33:28,230 It's like you just cut down a tree. 508 00:33:36,805 --> 00:33:41,641 When they say "active recovery," no, that doesn't mean you're walking 509 00:33:41,643 --> 00:33:44,547 all over the place. 510 00:33:44,747 --> 00:33:48,683 I would be happy if he didn't free solo. 511 00:33:49,684 --> 00:33:54,254 I've always appreciated that he never told me beforehand that he was gonna 512 00:33:54,256 --> 00:33:56,222 free solo or anything. 513 00:33:56,224 --> 00:33:59,292 I could come down on him and say, "You shouldn't be doing that," 514 00:33:59,294 --> 00:34:02,328 and alienate him, and, uh, it would've alienated 515 00:34:02,330 --> 00:34:04,930 him because that's his, uh, whole life. 516 00:34:04,932 --> 00:34:08,434 I think when he's free soloing