The "Thank God Ledge" in Yosemite National Park, California

That's a nope for me, dawg.

It’s Alex Honhold. He’s wired differently than most people. Definitely not tethered.

http://www.alexhonnold.com/

Wired very differently. Free-climbing El Capitan is certified bonkers.
- It’s amazing to me that he’s still alive, and lives in Las Vegas with a wife and kids. Like somehow he has a “normal” life on top of his climbing insanity.

Fun fact, Alex said in an interview that this is a picture of him having a panic attack. Just shaking and desperately trying to keep calm as adrenaline pours through his system.

Didn't know that he was able to have panic attacks at all. Something to do with his amygdala or something. Good to know that he's only human, I was deeply moved after watching him in Free Solo.
Is it this picture or this ledge? I believe his half dome assent was scary because he wasn’t fully prepared. However this specific picture was taken afterwards.

The good thing about this is that you don't have to do this

Why? Why would you do this?

And to quote Gwen on Galaxy Quest:

Well fuck that!

I have a fear of heights, so this is terrifying to me. I also wonder why people do this.
- I have a fear of heights.
  I broke my ankle in a life altering way falling down two stairs unto a sidewalk. That, to me, justified my already reasonable fear of heights.
  I don't understand why this is the "Thank God" ledge rather than the "Oh My God!" or similar ledge.
- I'm very far from doing something like this, but I do have quite a bit of experience hiking/climbing in exposed terrain, so I can do my best: People usually start off enjoying relatively light hikes in the mountains, because it feels good to be hiking in cool terrain with awesome views. As you get more experience, what seemed scary a couple years ago doesn't look scary anymore. You like hiking, so you go for the hike, without thinking much about the fact that you thought it looked scary and dangerous a couple years ago.
  Keep repeating this cycle, and you might suddenly find yourself tied into a rope, with crampons, an ice pick, and skis on your back, on the top of some frozen mountain that looked insurmountable some years ago. It doesn't even feel scary, just really awesome.
  Add some brain damage (slight joke, but Alex Honnold does have a smaller "fear center" than most people), and you end up in situations like the one in the photo.
  My point is that it isn't really about adrenaline seeing like a lot of people think. It's about going for awesome hikes, and your limits for what you feel safe doing shifting over time as you gain experience.
"Well ~~fuck~~ screw that!"
- Is my memory failing me and she actually did say "fuck that" and they dubbed it over with "screw that"?
Never give up, never surrender!

Remember kids, it's not the fall that kills you...it's the sudden stop at the end.

Just completely miss the ground and you'll be fine, duh
- Today I fell off a ledge into orbit.
- True, good luck breathing
That and all the bouncing off the rock face on the way down.

What a nice place to relax and have a cool refreshing glass of NOPE.

"Because it's there" is not sufficiant reason for climbing a mountain.

Row, row, row your boat?

Imagine sneezing

"Thank God Ledge" is an iconic feature on the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. This narrow granite ledge, approximately 35 feet long, varies in width from about 5 to 12 inches and is situated roughly 1,800 feet above the valley floor.

Just looking at this picture makes my hands sweaty

Imagine standing there and then suddenly that slab under your feet shifts.

On a scale of "1 to NOPE" I rate this an "absolutely the fuck not, what is wrong with you?"

I can imagine myself on that ledge and being the one person where after thousands of years of being perfectly fine, the ledge finally decided to give way and separate from the cliff.

As a Pyr of science you should test your hypothesis and publish your findings

It's not as bad as it looks, the photo is at an angle. Look at the horizon or the trees. The actual ledge leans back

Reminds me of the Via Ferrata in Switzerland. It really gets the blood pumping and gives you a massive adrenaline rush, as your feet are walking on tiny metal bolts driven into a sheer cliff. You can see all the way down to the valley floor from between your toes :3

There's more than one via ferrata.
- They are all super cool :)
Yeah, nope. That sounds utterly terrifying.

nonononononono. nope. non. nein.

One fart and I'm dead

Please mark this NSFL.

Is it really as steep as shown in the picture? The trees seem to lean a little bit to the left.

Either way. Hell no.

It's the sheer face of half dome. It may not be exactly 90° upright but it basically is.
Oh you're right. If I tilt my laptop so that the horizon is flat, it's not as steep. (but still.. too steep for me.)
- See the pic somebody else linked. The horizon is not flat in that area :)

I can feel my perineum clench when I look at this

That is one dedicated Shel Silverstein fan.

Idk man, I think you'd want more than one God to thank if you want to make it out of there alive. lmao

Never, never, never... Never

This picture makes my feet tingle, and not in a good way. You can keep that, good sir. AAll yours.

Yeah, thank god I'm nowhere near that damned thing, and never will be.

WHY

Yeah, no.

No. I'm not going there.

Nope!

The ledge he's standing on looks like its already detached and ready to fall