English subtitles for clip: File:Steph Davis, Fearless Flyer - HUMAN Limits.webm

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Three...two...one...

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There's an old saying that says, "There are
old climbers and there are bold climbers,

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but there are no old bold climbers."

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What they're saying is that free-soloists
eventually die.

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Free-solo climbing,

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it's probably one of the least common

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types of climbing even though

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it's really the simplest type of climbing.

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You don't have a rope.

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You don't have a partner, you're climbing for a long distance,

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usually pretty high off the ground,

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only relying on yourself.

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I know what happens to the human body

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when it hits the ground from even 30 feet.

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That fear is embedded in me.

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Steph has found a way to marginalize the fear,
she's found a way to compartmentalize it.

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I started base jumping because I started skydiving

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and the reason I started skydiving was because

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I am so interested in this idea of fear.

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You ready?

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Yes.

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Are you?

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I'm ready.

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Three, two...one.

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It's not like I'm some fear ninja now and,
like, nothing scares me

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because I do these things that seem scary.

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It's just that I have some tools to try to
function a little better when I'm scared.

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It's actually kind of how I met Mario because
I had started skydiving.

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I'd started base jumping.

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I was flying wing-suits and he had come to
Moab to fly the plane at the skydiving center.

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We got married.

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We were doing a wing-suit flight together
in Italy

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and I had jumped first and he followed me.

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So when I landed, he wasn't there,

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and, you know, I'd been wing-suiting long enough that

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when somebody goes missing in a wing-suit,
it usually is the worst case scenario.

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Pretty quickly my brain started to understand
that he wasn't coming down.

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It's obviously one of the most devastating
things that can happen to a person

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and she was basically a newlywed.

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I started climbing pretty soon after he died,
but it was kind of a question mark for me

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about flying wing-suits because that was so
associated with losing Mario and I thought,

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"Do I even...is that even going to be a thing
that feels good anymore?"

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About four months after he died,

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it was winter so I went down to Arizona.

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People said, "Hey, you know, we're going to go to some canyons and do some wing-suit base jumps.

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Do you want to go?"

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So I thought, "Yeah, I'll go and see."

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It was kind of a big moment for me and I was really happy to be surrounded by friends,

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jumping off the cliff and remembering the last time he was behind me

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and then he wasn't there anymore.

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It was a really intense moment,

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you know, it made me cry,

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but I also felt that I love flying

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and Mario loved flying and flying keeps
me close to him in some way.

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So it became a good thing instead of a bad thing.

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Visualization is a huge part.

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In my mind I'm watching myself do every single move.

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She gets to this point where it's almost like
she's sleepwalking.

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She likes to rehearse the jump

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a little bit in her mind.

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She's able to regulate her fear so easily

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and so well

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that it may be that she's able to

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transfer that to other emotions

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that she's feeling as well,

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like sadness or depression.

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That's something that could be really interesting to study in the future.

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Steph's chosen a life less traveled

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and it's not an easy one.

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She's been through a lot.

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It's cost her a lot, but it's also given her
the life that she really wants.

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We're inspired by people like Steph Davis
because she really is awe evoking.

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Just getting more comfortable with the idea of fear and what it means,

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that directly translates to life.

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We all have these things that pop up everyday and it's either really upsetting

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or really scary, seems like a really big deal.

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When you get more used to managing those feelings,

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little things don't ruffle you as much in life

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and when the big things happen in life,
you have better tools to deal with them.