Alex Honnold Shares His WORST Climbing Experience 

i had to take a shit halfway up a climb, hanging by one hand once. i tried to tell all the other people there that it's perfectly normal, but they still banned me from the climbing gym.

Beyond being an amazing climber, Alex is brutally honest and hilariously funny without even trying.

1 handed poop while free soloing is God mode

So this man climbed a 7a multi-pitch route, with no rope, surrounded by mosquitos, in the dark, with diarrhea? I can't tell you how I feel about that.

…and “disaster poop” enters the climbing lexicon.

Only Honnold would go solo while feeling terrible

I didn't hear Caldwell's story yet, but having a go while unroped and hanging one-handed above the abyss is gonna be pretty hard to beat.

I never get tired of Alex’s stories. He’s incredibly understated, humble and honest.

His solo of El Cap is even more amazing to me now, knowing he took a shit along the way

Seems like you just need to free solo El Cap to get enlightened. You can see the love and compassion in his eyes. Truly inspirational personality.

If ever I needed an illustration of just how voraciously I gobble up Honnold content… Video about Alex taking a dump? Yes please.

This was gold! The stuff we didn't know we needed to know!

I shit my pants watching him climb with no ropes! 😬

This man is amazing. I met him at a climbing gym in the Bay Area, absolutely awesome human. I should of known he could handle any shituation 😂

"Some of the puddles looked good"

"Dangerous Poops with Alex Honnold" is the content we didn't know we needed.

And I thought it was a catastrophe shitting my pants just being out on a long run! That's why this guy is a legend!

this brought me joy

I went running one time and literally had to drop my drawers off a main road and take a dump at like mile 8 or something. When it hits you, there's nothing you can do. I'm just glad I didn't end up on the nightly news because I was afraid I would.

Huh, interesting - so that is what he meant when he said "nobody wants to see that" when answering a question whether he wanted to release a full unedited recording of his free solo :D

Alex's free solo of El Capitan is the greatest physical/athletic accomplishment by a human in the history of humans.!

The charmin ad was the cherry on top

I only climb in the nude. And I’ll only wipe if I summit.

I had the same experience in an indoor gym. Shit right off the ledge! Epic!

With all due respect to Alex... he wasn't taking a dump, the dump was taking him.

I am dying I love this so much!!!

Thanks for sharing, I think!

That's how I got banned from my local bouldering gym.

if theres a legend of our time, hes surely in competition. that shits brutal, no pun intended.

No sh*t?! 💩 Real. Now I don't feel so bad 😅 Nice set up and sound. Cool tunes. Great conversation! What equipment are you using? I love Alex!

Great story🤣🤣🤣🥲

Now That would be a documentary to watch! "Alex Loses Ballast" But, Alex, it's neither sad nor embarrassing. It's just what went down and how you handled your business.

Tu ou are young guys but late 70s the climber who put all climbing on the map and superstar of climbing was Patrick Edlinger, check him out in La vie au bout des doigts and opera vertical. He was on every tv show and died home falling in the stairs RIP PATRICK

I'd rather find a turd than a body.

Bigfoot must hate him always chunking poop rocks down at them.

Imodium is always in my bag.

Legendary

There's a saying among PCT hikers. "You aren't a real PCT hiker unless you've crapped yourself." Now I'm sure it's not a for sure thing but more so a mind set because between the PCT and CDT there are plenty of times where there's a long stretch where there's no good spot to go. I can't imagine how it'd be rock climbing.

We need someone to create a very intense re-enactment of this. 😂

my algorithm has a lot of guitar videos in it when I saw this title I was a bit confused

Respect

I shit my pants just WATCHING him solo.

😂 Great story.

Of all the reasons to shit his pants...it was his dinner 😂😂

"Oh I feel like I'm dying" "So I started soloing this route..."

quite the nugget

I mean,,, it's not like we haven't wondered !!

When Alex says “it’s a bit much”,it’s way too much!

Hopefully, no one below gets clobbered with a sh*tput. So, how many incidents were captured by drone footage? Someone would probably enjoy watching those outtakes. Maybe best viewed in FF.

what about sneezing? could that throw you off?

Fascinating! Tell us more! How did it feel? How did it smell? Is this the famous "Alex Shits Himself at Red Rock" incident? EPIC, DUDE!

Extreme fans are wondering if they can find a Honnold shit in some spot.

Thats rough

That feeling of needing to poo is horrible, I can’t imagine having that feeling while climbing without ropes, Christ

The virgin bathroom break versus the chad one-handed cliff dump

Alex poop will show up on Ebay for sure

The Irony of this story and the Channels name😂😂😂💀

Possible Trivia: El Cap used to be 500 feet but from all the climber's poo has grown to 3000?

Hilarious story. Only Alex could believably tell it. Sorry Free Solo cut his dump.

6:09 all I know is that a rock large enough to contain my entire shit is NOT light enough for me to pickup and hurl off a cliff. Like what are you guys dropping cat size shits on a 6" boulder, where are these boulders on a sheer cliff face exactly? I have so many questions!

he is a big guy, looks heavy

Shit happens. On mountains too.

I took a poop watching free soloing. Scared me .

That's reality. Your human body continues to operate while your activity becomes outlandish. Crazy dangerous. Glad you are alive ! As you fly across the summits of the world you're bowels are stimulated by movement and fear. Like all of us non-outrageous humans you are attempting to be mindful of those below you but not always possible. Blees you, son !

Holy $hitt hearing this stories are fun amazing and hilarious

I remember the last time I had to shit myself during a climb, I pulled my pants down and did my business like usual, but then the staff called the cops in the bouldering gym, I still wonder what i did wrong?

Don’t worry about it. I’d definitely shit myself if I were climbing there or anywhere probably. I hate heights.

Always a good idea to free solo when you have the shits and are severely dehydrated.

Limbed El capitan free solo

What is geardia?

Wonder if those dudes ever rub one out while climbing. I’m sure they’ve all got epic stories.

Despite all those incidents… he never once, felt fear or afraid of falling 😂😂

One handed shit, finished the climb with no shirt, but had a clean ass and was comfortable😅😂

Two climbers one rock...

"I was working on the HERD" a poop story

In future time. Archaeologist gonna examine a rock hard poop. One gonna say “that was one brave super sh!t”

Happy to see Alex has downgraded a lot of his free solos to an acceptable grade - I nearly shit my pants simply watching him free solo "Freerider" 5.13+ - over twenty years of committed climbing and I have yet to even top rope a 13! An amazing climb to be sure - I think for most climbers, getting married and having a kid definitely lends a different perspective to the idea of solo climbing. I hope Alex lives a long and happy life!!! Too many wonderful climbers die before their time - notably fellow Canadian Alpinist, Marc Andre LeClerc - RIP. too many others to mention here....BTW: I am in no way stating that free soloing 5.8 is safe. One of the earliest solo climbers I followed back in the 80s was a British climber named Derek Hersey....he died in 1993 while soloing the Steck/Salathe route down in Yosemite - only five or six pitches of 5.9 / 10a on this 18-pitch climb, but well within his ability - stay safe folks - cheers !!!

That story is quite a "nugget"

Giardia was bad. But the antibiotics were worse. I was absolutely miserable.

Bruh. You climb mountains with no rope. You can shit your pants and we would still believe that you are the coolest

Imagine if someone is climbing just below him

I never shat my pants soloing but then again I am not a climber but just a guitarist. I did knock over my pint once with the headstock tho, but only because this girl dressed as a vampire bit my ear hard enough to draw blood while pouring a glass of lukewarm champagne down my pants. Hazards to any occupation I guess.

Imagine if he did BJJ With that strength

I thought the thumbnail was some sort of clickbait but nah dude literally shit himself lol

Oh they mean literally

One time I had to do a shit put in a climbing gym.

He's drinking a year old puddle water... Just wow. XD

Clicked on this video thinking it was about guitar soloing....

Alex, do roller coasters scare you?

😁😊

I remember this time…I had a good friend that died because he slipped on some unknown brown liquid..now that I know that it was your shit I’m very disappointed

Got to drop the kids off at the pool!

Alex, unique solo climber, and the older he gets, the more nerdy que seems to be. I think his brain/psyquis is different from mots people. He expresses little emotion, he is super rational which allows him to speak of topics in a straight total honest way with no filters (like death as "consequence" of not executing accurately and effectively the climb.) which for the most of us would sound kind of shocking

i shit my pants just watching you so dont worry its ok

Good thing it was getting dark, no one would want to see that. 😳 There’s a lot a poop stories out there, someone should write a book….not sure how a crappy book would sell though. 😂

All these route names sound like a skit making fun of stoners talking about strains.

What if Alex had needed a shit when he soloed the Burj in Dubai?

Alex had to get shit off his chest 😳

Music makes it unwatchable

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣