2019/3/4
【Achilles的命運】
荷馬史詩Illiad《伊力特》的主人公Achilles是半人半神的英雄。在古希臘神話裏（不是《伊力特》史詩，荷馬史詩沒提及腳後跟一事）他的母親女神Thetis提起他的腳跟把他浸入Styx河，從此他就immortal（不朽永生）了；但他有個致命弱點--“Achilles的腳跟”：因為他的母親提著他浸入Styx河時並沒有把這部分也考慮進去，後來Trojan War結束時，Paris一劍射進他的腳跟，結束了他的短暫且光輝一生。
2004年Brad Pitt主演的Troy，也不知為什麽，導演把Achilles的死亡演化成劍射到身上，引發一片罵聲，電影在imdb上的評價也不高。
除了“腳後跟”，在古希臘神話中，Achilles還著名在他有選擇自己命運的權利。
在他出征Troy前，他已知道他的命運：死於Trojan War，再也回不到他的city states了。
在荷馬史詩Illiad第九章裏，他告訴奧德賽他的命運選擇：
我的母親告訴我，我可有兩種命運：如果選擇出征，將會英年早逝，客死他鄉，不得永生，但英名可世代流傳，永垂不朽；如果呆在家鄉，將會活得很長，但一輩子無名無跡。我選擇了前者。
這就是Achilles的命運。
【Alex Honnold的命運】
Alex Honnold是Free Solo的主人公，第一個且是唯一一個徒手爬上EI Capitan的人。在登山界，他應該是“前無古人，後無來者”的英雄了。
他知道他未來的命運嗎，如果一直堅持下去？他很清楚。
Free Solo拍攝組最擔心的就是Alex Honnold摔死的命運，導演Jimmy夫婦和整個攝製組絕對沒有讓Alex Honnold繼續的想法，如果他提出一句不爬了。但Alex 選擇繼續。
我並不認為他的女朋友懂得他的選擇，因為她需要解釋，需要世俗的責任與業務；但他的母親已接受了他的命運抉擇：從她前夫及兒子身上，她已學會接受，不與命爭。Wolownick是這樣說的：“Every time he left the house it might be the last time I'd ever see him. And if someday, next year, this year, he does come home in a box, he will have lived 50 lifetimes compared to lots of us."
Alex Honnold深知他的命運與選擇，下麵是他說過的話：
My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
You might get run over; ou might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.
I’ve done a lot of thinking about fear. For me the crucial question is not how to climb without fear—that’s impossible—but how to deal with it when it creeps into your nerve endings.
On the summit, part of me wished that someone, anyone, had noticed that I’d just done something noteworthy—though maybe it was better that I didn’t have to talk to anybody. How could I have expressed what my last few hours had been like? It was enough that I knew.
I'm not thinking about anything when i'm climbing, which is part of the appeal. I'm focused on executing what's in front of me.
I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.
I've walked away from more climbs than i can count, just because i sensed that things were not quite right.
There are certainly better technical climbers than me. But if i have a particular gift, it's a mental one - the ability to keep it together where others might freak out.
Nobody achieves anything great by being happy and cozy.
There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but tring not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.
I only make calculated decisions.
Alex Honnold的登山是精心準備仔細算計但不是萬無一失的行動，他英雄思維跟Achillies命運選擇是一致的：選擇命運，擁抱命運；完全有背於“好死不如賴活著”的生存哲學以及“適可而止”和“知足常樂”的中庸思想。
我可以手心發汗，心虛氣短地看Alex Honnold free solo；但看著登頂的他，他平實謙順的笑容，深邃的眼光，並不覺得自己緊張得窒息的觀感得到完全釋放，反而是陷入到深深的悲哀中：因為他的命運是寫著的，就象我們所有人的命運一樣。
象Alex Honnold致敬！在他麵前，任何語言都是多餘的。
“Free Solo對我來說，
是一種人生的巔峰體驗，
是一種我很享受的、美好的人生經曆，
為之冒險，我甘之如飴。”
——Alex Honnold
