Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure

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There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if I have a particular gift, it's a mental one — the ability to keep it together where others might freak out." Souza, Tarik de (22 April 1983). "Balladas De Pink Floyd Contra A Guerra". Jornal do Brasil. p.40. Archived from the original on 10 November 2020 . Retrieved 7 November 2020. (...) In Brazil, where the trajectory of the group's recent LPs is a little fluctuating, ( Animals (77), 60,000 copies, Wish You Were (75), 80,000 copies and The Wall (79), 110,000 copies) (...)

French video certifications – Pink Floyd – The Wall" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 7 November 2020.There's a definite transcendent spiritual side to what Honnold and Petit do, demonstrating the far-edge potential of our spirit’s ability to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles with persistence, practice, concentration, focus, opportunity, full-on commitment, and a little help from friends. Alex in particular succeeds in doing what they say good writing should do: he makes the strange seem familiar, "freeing" for readers the sense that what he's doing is even possible, climbing without ropes or any sort of protection straight-up El Capitan in Yosemite, 3K feet of granite, perched on tiny "smears," indentations, ripples, worming up vertical fissures, ALL WITHOUT A ROPE OR NET OR anything to make it anything less than a death sentence if he simply slips. He's so good, such a master in terms of technique and temperament -- the Hendrix of climbing -- he makes it seem effortless, a sure sign of mastery, and yet when you watch videos or look at a picture (or even read about it) it induces vertigo and a sense of my god dude is gonna die. When I watched the film, for days after I wondered if he just fell off some cliff in Chad or Patagonia or Nevada -- reading this I started worrying about him again. I try to expand my comfort zone by practicing my moves over and over again. I try to work through my fear until it’s not scary anymore." My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible." MacDonald, Bruno (2006). "Pink Floyd: The Wall". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p. 441. ISBN 978-0-7893-1371-3.

It’s the best thing in life to take the one thing you love most and have it work out that you can make a living that way."GRIPPING. MAGNIFICENT. Chin and Vasarhelyi have done such a good job laying out some of El Capitan’s specific challenges for the viewer that they become resonant beats in a mini-story arc. It’s scary and exhilarating stuff." GLEN KENNY, ROGEREBERT.COM In a real sense, I performed the hard work of that free solo during the days leading up to it. Once I was on the climb, it was just a matter of executing."

As well as being more flexible, repeated replay of magnetic tape can, over time, reduce the quality of the recorded material.Because of the sheer scale and difficulty of its soaring, clean granite walls, Yosemite offers almost limitless challenges to today's best climbers - as it will, I'm sure, to the stars of the next generation. No one, for example, has yet attempted a free solo of any of the routes on El Capitan." The Music Australia Loved". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2013. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Nevertheless, the album topped the Billboard charts for 15weeks, [94] selling over a million copies in its first two months of sales [89] and in 1999 was certified 23× platinum. [nb 4] [95] It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time in the US, [86] [95] between 1979 and 1990 selling over 19million copies worldwide. [96] The Wall is Pink Floyd's second-best selling album after 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon. There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully." Classifica annuale 2010 (dal 28.12.2009 al 26.12.2010)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 19 April 2021.

Beginning in 2010 [116] and with dates lasting into 2013, Waters performed the album worldwide on his tour, The Wall Live. [117] This had a much wider wall, updated higher quality projected content and leading-edge projection technology. Gilmour and Mason played at one show in London at The O2 Arena. [118] A film of the live concert, Roger Waters: The Wall, was released in 2015. [119]There's no question though, that my impulsive push on Rainbow Wall had everything to do with what was going on with Stacey." Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1980". Billboard. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020 . Retrieved 5 November 2020.