He was dangling 600 feet in the air when it happened.
Back in the day, Jared Leto used to climb all over the scaffolding above the stage at Thirty Second to Mars shows. He clearly had a taste for the sport, but over the weekend the actor/singer revealed that he had a very scary near-fatal incident on a rock face.
Without revealing when it took place, Leto tweeted out a pic on Friday in which he is seen hanging off a rock face on the left and holding up a nearly ripped-in-half climbing rope on the right.
“Not to sound dramatic, but this is the day I nearly died,” he wrote. “Took a pretty good fall climbing with @AlexHonnold at Red Rock. Looked up and within seconds the rope was being cut by the rock while I dangled some 600 ft in the air. I remember looking down at the ground below.”
The climbing excursion appeared to be an outing with Honnold, the subject of the thrilling 2018 documentary Free Solo, about Honnold’s quest to be the first person to free solo climb Yosemite’s daunting El Capitan. A second post included some footage of their climb with another message about the terrifying/exhilarating nature of climbing.
“It was a strange moment – less fear, more matter of fact, and slightly melancholy,” Leto wrote. “The adrenaline came after, when I got back on the wall. But we made it through and lived to see another day Overall it was actually quite fun. we continued climbing into the night…”
Check out the tweets below.
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