This boy is Alex Hornod. Alex is a famous unprotected climber and a little boy who loves his dreams.

Unprotected rock climbing is climbing with your own body without protective measures and climbing tools.

The death rate of unprotected rock climbing is as high as 50%, but Alex, born in 1985, has created miracles with his own efforts.

In just 3 hours and 56 minutes, he climbed the Emirates Rock with his bare hands, which is as high as 3,200 feet, quite close to the cliff of 1000 meters.

Emirates Rock is "Mount Everest in Rock Climbing". On the other hand, Alex is the first climber in the world to reach the top of Emirates Rock with his bare hands.

Rock climbing opened a new world for him.

Such a brave climber has a relatively autistic childhood.

Being born in an American family that can't express love makes Alex calm and introverted.

Related to this growing environment, Alex seems to be born without fear.

He once went to the hospital for a brain test, and the doctor concluded that "the amygdala in Alex's brain is completely inactive, which is an important reason why he was born without fear."

The amygdala is an organ in the human brain, which stimulates people to make a stress response when facing danger.

Although Alex does not agree with this conclusion, it is precisely because of the dual influence of physiological reasons and family reasons that he has formed a more autistic character.

Alex, who lacks love and is autistic, urgently needs a means to find the value of existence. It is because of his urgency and desire that he has the courage to climb. Rock climbing also opened a new world for him.

Rock climbing, a way to get along with the world.

10-year-old Alex found his love at a glance when he was taken to the indoor rock climbing hall by his father. From then on, Alex began to get along with the world with "rock climbing".

Alex, a teenager, has never got rid of his autistic character, which makes him naturally incompatible with indoor climbing halls.

He couldn't break through his own limits and asked strangers to take protective measures for him, but in order to stick to this love, he chose outdoor unprotected rock climbing. He was only 19 at that time.

So Alex found his true love-outdoor unprotected rock climbing. This way of climbing allows him not to face great social pressure, and he can find inner freedom and peace in this loneliness.

Alex once said: "I am also afraid of falling off a cliff and dying, but when you challenge yourself and do your best, you will have a sense of satisfaction, which is even stronger when you face death." Perhaps "extreme satisfaction" is exactly what Alex pursues.

Give up everything for love.

In order to achieve this "extreme satisfaction", Alex once gave up everything. Dropping out of Berkeley University was an important turning point in Alex's rock climbing career.

When Alex 19 years old, his father died of a heart attack. At this time, he began to think about the meaning of "living in the present". In order to feel the freshness of life again, he needs to use all his strength to persist in his love, even if this persistence requires him to give up everything.

After dropping out of school, Alex had to live on his father's insurance bonds.

Alex, who lost his superior living conditions and gave up the bright future of Berkeley University, began to live as a backpacker in different rock fields.

From then on, he began to live in an RV. Simple living conditions not only did not reduce his love, but made him more focused on his own climbing, and he was able to get rid of worldly and material fetters.

His love needs precise planning and ability.

Almost reaching paranoid love requires him to complete it with precise planning and ability. It is not to pull back from the brink, but to need 10 years of ability training and every precise plan.

Self-breakthrough has become Alex's main keyword since 1 1 year old. When I realized that rock climbing was my true love, rock climbing became the most time-consuming existence in Alex's life.

Alex's daily training includes fingerboard, pull-ups, simulated rock climbing and so on. Up to 18 hours of high-intensity training every week makes him approach his ultimate goal step by step, that is, chieftain rock.

For anyone, climbing Emirates Rock with bare hands is an impossible goal. But for Alex, no.

Faced with the challenge that everyone thought impossible, he broke it down into every small goal, and then gradually completed it until he reached the top.

Before climbing with bare hands, Alex had climbed Emirates Rock with ropes for more than 40 times. It is this kind of simulation and training that laid a solid foundation for him to climb Emirates Rock with his bare hands in the future.

"freehand rock climbing" after the summit

June 3, 20 17, which is an important day. On this day, Alex successfully achieved his goal. In nearly four hours, he added another warrior to the world. The new record made Alex's name resound through the rock climbing world.

"Freehand Rock Climbing", a documentary recording the whole process of Alex's rock climbing, won the Oscar for best documentary.

Through "climbing with bare hands", people saw Alex's ability. While admiring his courage, it also provided him with fame and fortune.

But after the film was finished, when the crew asked Alex what to do next, he replied, "Today is my hanging training day, so I'm going to do hanging training next."

Then, Alex, who had just come down from Emirates Rock, went back to his trailer and focused on his love again.

"You must be on the safe side. If you are a perfectionist, freehand rock climbing is the closest thing to your wish. In an instant, it is really good to be perfect. " He makes us feel the purity and greatness of focusing on love.

Born to love, born to love.

Many people will ask Alex, "Are you afraid of death?" He is not afraid of death, he just loves it enough.

Because of his great love, he can pursue training for 20 years in a row, overcome his fear of death again and again, and even give up all his reputation and material life just to keep his love.

"When the mountains call, I will go there." This is what Alex said, and it is also the purest explanation of his love for himself.

Perhaps he was not born excellent, but in the process of constantly looking for his own love, he became excellent and finally reached a height that one could not reach. This is the truest portrayal of "living for love".