Comment by potamic

2 hours ago

I, on the other hand, had the privilege not to watch this. I don't know how one can without feeling sick to the stomach.

You statistically have a higher chance of dying from being in proximity to an ICE agent than Honnold does free soloing this building. He might actually be safer up there than he would be back home.

There are many answers depending on what you meant by this, but in terms of actual risk this is probably not much worse to him than e.g. riding a motorcycle, and certainly better than what it would have been to be crew on the space shuttle.