Perhaps more than any other athlete in recent history, people have been wondering: what will Alex Honnold do next? He can probably hang up his climbing shoes any time he wants to – scaling a 2,000-foot vertical hunk of rock in under four hours without any protection is more than most rock climbers will achieve in one lifetime.
Yet if you watched the determination and focus with which he tackled El Capitan back in 2017, you’ll have found it hard to imagine that he’s just going to sit back and revel in his success. And obviously, you’d be right.
