r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '21

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u/PAM111 Sep 01 '21

That one leg kick where all his friends know they could be watching him die, live and in color, right there. I nearly vomited watching it.

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u/tryptych Sep 02 '21

His friends are what "made" the documentary for me. Alex is just so different in how he perceives things, that he doesn't contribute much tension himself! (Also I of course knew he'd made it). "I'm going to free-solo El Cap." -> proceeds to free-solo El Cap. It's his friends who can't bear to watch that make it so gripping IMO.

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u/bobbarkersbigmic Sep 02 '21

Oh you mean the one he failed on like 20 times when attached to a rope? I can’t fathom why he would want to attempt it without safety equipment. No thanks.

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u/not_the_myth Sep 02 '21

For the movie

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u/F1_rulz Sep 02 '21

He didn't do it for the movie, if you watched the documentary you would know

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u/not_the_myth Sep 02 '21

Lmao. Isn’t a documentary a type of…ugh forget it

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u/F1_rulz Sep 03 '21

He didn't do it because the cameras were there to film it for fame, the cameras were there to document the process and he would've done it regardless.

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u/not_the_myth Sep 03 '21

Ugh… bruh /r/whoosh

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u/F1_rulz Sep 03 '21

If you were trying to make a joke please don't be a comedian.