Alex Honnold: Daily Routine

Alex Honnold trained 40 hours a week, deleted his social apps, and lived in a van—all to climb a 3,000-foot wall without a rope.

For Alex Honnold, the thought of scaling the sides of El Capitan, a summit located in Yosemite National Park approximately 3000 feet in height, is positively energising. It’s just the other stuff that comes with being a world famous rock climber that’s exhausting.

“The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring,” he told Outside. “But the actual big climbs — that’s what I live for.”

This isn’t surprising at all, considering how much Honnold loves the simple life. “I think I’m the world’s highest paid professional rock climber, but the sport has a minimalist ethos about it,” he said in an interview with Wealthsimple. “I really value that about climbing.”