Let’s play “imagine this”.  You are climbing the exterior of a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan.  Without ropes. (The photo actually shows a climber in Santiago, Chile, with ropes).  One slip – and you are plastered on the pavement below.

How do you keep cool, keep your heart rate down, and keep the enormous fear welling inside you from paralyzing you or from igniting a fatal panic?

In a Science Friday podcast, stellar climber Alex Honnold explains, to Flora Lichtman (host) and sports psychologist Jessica Bartley, how he does it – how he conquers fear.  Since all of us, in life, face fear, big or small, we can learn a lot from Honnold, 40-year-old climber who famously  “free solo”........

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