It's a shame you got downvoted. I agree with you. I too have mixed feelings about the implicit normalisation and glorification of such an activity through profi

It's a shame you got downvoted. I agree with you. I too have mixed feelings about the implicit normalisation and glorification of such an activity through profit-led media projects. Most curiously it's not just the media community that feel it's ok, but even the general opinion in the climbing community seems to accept it. Whereas I feel it sends deeply problematic mixed messages. On the one hand as a climber it's drummed into you to make safety the first and foremost concern. Yet here we see the romanticisation of an endeavor fundamentally dependent on the absence of life-saving safety. It makes no sense to me other than the simplistic gimmick of morbid curiosity. I cannot believe for a moment that Alex Honnold doesn't get something from the attention he receives. There's something almost akin to the social taboo of watching others have sex, such as in pornography. We're not so much watching an athlete, but a psychologically notable person that allows us to vicariously experience the intimacy of emotions that arise from handing over one's very existence to the precipice.