Juliette Deseilligny

“When I protested that it seemed like too serious a situation to rely only on the sun and wind, Piero drew an analogy to climbing. Sometimes you find yourself in positions where falling would mean death. So you don’t fall. It helped me understand. The nomads just don’t make mistakes.”
― Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall

“Use the apple test

"If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.”
― Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“I've done a lot of thinking about fear. For me the crucial question is not how to climb without fear-that's impossible- but how to deal with it when it creeps into your nerve endings.”
― Alex Honnold

“On the summit, part of me wished that someone, anyone, had noticed that I’d just done something noteworthy—though maybe it was better that I didn’t have to talk to anybody. How could I have expressed what my last few hours had been like? It was enough that I knew. I didn’t make a sound. I took off my shoes and started hiking down the Cable route. It was only then that someone noticed. “Oh, my God,” this dude blurted out. “You’re hiking barefoot! You’re so tough!”
― Alex Honnold, Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure