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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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