Alex Honnold scaled a skyscraper on live TV. So you would think he's a man without fear, but one mundane thing terrifies him.
Honnold became a household name after climbing Taiwan's nearly 1,700-ft. Taipei 101 tower without safety equipment. But at home, he's terrified of his two-year-old, Alice, climbing out of her crib.
"She just learned how to get out of the crib [last night]," Honnold tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, "so we have to redefine our sleep situation — I woke up, like, every 45 minutes. I watched through a tiny crack in the door after I put her to bed, and I just watched her. It looked effortless."
Alex Honnold Talks Climbing
As far as climbing skyscrapers, Honnold didn't have that in his future when he was younger. "I didn't really have a tremendous vision [for my future]," he said. "I was just going with it. At the time, professional climbing wasn't really a thing. I kind of thought I'd end up being a mountain guide or something like that."
So being a father is much more scary than climbing a skyscraper. In fact, he says that he enjoyed and had a good time climbing.
"My strategy was to just have a good time and that made it more fun," he said. "Although, it was a little stressful having all those people in their offices watching me through the windows."
