Alex Honnold does not experience fear like the rest of us: <a href="http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber" rel="nofollow">http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...</a>
When your natural programming to take risk and gain reward, ends up just taking risk. For him, staring at a screen and doing the work many here do, might be like climbing a mountain for everyone else. Risking ones life to do things so similar to things you've gotten away with before shouldn't be so celebrated.