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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by DoubleCribble on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:30PM (#14501532)
Indeed. Tall, skinny, gangly, and very big hands & fingers with incredible power. Imagine doing 10 sets of reps of pulls-ups but hanging on with only one finger at a time to get an idea. As if one-arm pull-ups weren't hard enough, pinky pull-ups are on a whole different level.
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:30PM (#14502020)
I won't call him gangly. He isn't even skinny in the sense most people assume (no muscle, stick figure).

He seems to have a lot of lean muscle (http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/06/05/ap_17155772401614...)

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by DoubleCribble on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:59PM (#14502217)
No? He looks gangly to me.

gangly, adj., \ˈgaŋ-glē\ : long and thin [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gangly

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by CamperBob2 on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:57PM (#14510189)
Watch the '60 Minutes' interview with him that somebody else linked to in the thread. His fingers are the size of household water pipes.

It would be rude to call him a mutant, but that's pretty much what he is, for better or worse.

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by mistermann on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:53PM (#14501744)
Ten pull ups with one finger on only one arm?
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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by DoubleCribble on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:55PM (#14502195)
I can't find the video I want right now, but this has some nice visuals. Check out this climber planking around 0:39.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igYhX5xyprw

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Re:Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Cli... by jojoo on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @07:23PM (#14502361)
maybe it was a video from magnus mitboe? https://youtu.be/BEc5uVsM6bE?t=1m33s

or the 80ies oldschool classic; wolfgang guellich in a german gameshow: https://youtu.be/rugoETlUAVI?t=22m47s

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