Coincidentally just a few days ago I saw this preview for a new Honnold movie. When I saw the thread upped I initially thought it was gonna be on this:
Here's a good interview about the expedition:
The Last Tepui, a Disney+ film, streams tomorrow on Earth Day. In it, Alex Honnold, alongside a team of climbers, help look for new species.
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Climbing: Does that change the way you’re looking at future expeditions?
Honnold: Yeah, for sure. Like, why not bring somebody like Bruce on every trip? It basically made me appreciate how difficult it is for scientists to get funding for their various ideas and expeditions, and how relatively easy it is for sports adventurers to get funding for action sports. For example, Jimmy Chin shot a couple of tire commercials in Greenland with people base jumping off like giant mountains. And, it’s easy to get funding for that kind of thing, but then it’s hard for a climate scientist to get funding to spend a month in a base camp researching things that have actual significance—certainly more significant than a tire commercial. And a trip like this just makes you appreciate that. If you’re going to any of these locations for climbing, you really may as well be bringing some expertise with you to actually learn about the area while you’re there.
Climbing: And so do you think you’re going to do that moving forward?
Honnold: Yeah, my only real big trip for this year is the trip to Greenland actually, through National Geographic as well. And it’s also with climate scientists and sort of the same ideas as this tepui trip, where we’ll be doing some learning along the way.
Climbing: That’s awesome. What do you hope viewers will take away from this and/or do after viewing?
Honnold: I kind of hope the viewers gain a certain sense of humility around the natural world. Like a realization that we don’t know that much about a lot of places on earth and that there’s still a lot to learn and there’s a lot that’s worth protecting. Some of these areas are being destroyed before we even know anything about them. Ideally, we don’t destroy them. And ideally we learn about them a little more quickly as well.