going solo

A picture is worth a 1000 words:
how much I respect, love, and admire my brothers who do this regularly;
and how I feel about auditions.

Going Solo

Photograph by Jimmy Chin, National Geographic

Determined to finish a new route, superclimber Alex Honnold dangles from an overhang on Oman's Musandam Peninsula. After pushing as far as possible on the rock, a deepwater solo climber simply lets go.

See more pictures from the January 2014 feature story “Impossible Rock.”

via {national geographic}