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The photographer always gets there first. ⚠️ Acrophobia Warning. ⚠️ (Original Post) usonian Sep 2025 OP
Well, my dear usonian . . . CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2025 #1
That's the photog taking a picture of Alex Honnold free-climbing El Capitan. usonian Sep 2025 #2
Cameraman faster than the runners? Norrrm Sep 2025 #3
Who remembers Rosie Ruiz? usonian Sep 2025 #4
Now that is crazy HAB911 Sep 2025 #5
Very real, and well documented. usonian Sep 2025 #6
I am extremely afraid of heights HAB911 Sep 2025 #7
Alex' Honnold's brain is missing neurons for fear. (acrophobia warning) usonian Sep 2025 #8

CaliforniaPeggy

(155,975 posts)
1. Well, my dear usonian . . .
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 03:16 PM
Sep 2025

Not sure what I'm seeing here. I wish we could be a bit closer!

Striking photo, nonetheless.

Norrrm

(3,780 posts)
3. Cameraman faster than the runners?
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 04:14 PM
Sep 2025

Some say this is fake. I don't know. Heckuva meme, though.

&t=1s

usonian

(23,034 posts)
4. Who remembers Rosie Ruiz?
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 04:29 PM
Sep 2025

She won the Boston Marathon.



Helped that she took the subway most of the run. In fact, she qualified by taking the subway in the New York Marathon earlier.

She took the MTA!

With Charlie!





https://www.therunnerjournal.org/post/the-greatest-marathon-scandal-how-rosie-ruiz-cheated-her-way-to-victory

usonian

(23,034 posts)
8. Alex' Honnold's brain is missing neurons for fear. (acrophobia warning)
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 06:33 PM
Sep 2025

And here are the receipts. Lots of them.

Science shows Alex Honnold feels no fear
https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/science-shows-alex-honnold-feels-no-fear/news-story/57b006f2ea85b6f913c69e5915e0fbd6

The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber
Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us.
https://nautil.us/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-236051/

By the way:
By J.B. MacKinnon August 3, 2016 Photography by Jimmy Chin
I've repaired gutters but never ventured up to the roof.
This is AWESOME climbing and photography.

“Fearless” climbers: how the amygdala mediates fear
We can learn from this.
https://neuwritesd.org/2022/04/14/fearless-climbers-how-the-amygdala-mediates-fear/

This guy!


And THIS guy.

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