An Inside Look at Alex Honnold’s Adventure Van | Outside
An Inside Look at Alex Honnold’s Adventure Van | Outside
Professional climber and longtime “vanlifer” Alex Honnold gives us a tour through the upgraded 2016 Dodge Ram Promaster that he calls home.
Honnold recently upgraded his living space from a 2002 Ford Econoline E150 to a newer, custom-built 2016 Dodge Ram Promaster – so, of course, we sent photographer Max Whittaker to hang with him in Yosemite and get a peek at his new digs. Built by Honnold’s friend, Mason Earle, and customized with scrap metal from the Black Diamond factory and an etching of El Capitan on the van’s door, the small space houses everything Alex needs for simple yet comfortable day-to-day living. He discusses the pros and cons of life on the road, the joy of simplicity that comes with van living, and his philosophy on daily showering (it might not be as necessary as we think).
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This guy it awesome . I might try car life one day …..happiness is all realitive and fleeting ….comes and goes …..I love having less stuff .stuff is not going to make you happy. I think nature, being true to yourself, following your heart is a good start to true bliss . 🙏
“You know, when you get put up in a five star hotel….”
No Alex, I do not know what that is like
anyone knows what type of material he used for the walls inside ? Thank you
insde look from outside, what a paradox
Dude makes like 200k a year or so.
I would definitely need to find a solution to the washing situation. I love being able to shower daily or depending on the weather or what i’m doing- more than once per day.
Perhaps I’m missing something here, but…what about an RV? 🤨
He’s wright sometimes a smaller space is better than a larger space.
What is it about this guy that I believe every word he says is 110% honest.
So where does he take a shower?
Yes!!. I was looking for this video after hearing he loved in a van…
Totally agree with his outlook on living in a van as opposed to a conventional, "stationary" home. However, I do part company with him about the shower and "nature call" facilities. If I lived in a van, I would need at least a nominally working shower and a traditional "bathroom". If I had that, hell yeah, totally doable. Showering in the morning for me is something that I need to do.
Take your bottle to the fancy hotels, boom problem solved!
wait how do u shower tho
Who is here after free solo came out
As someone who’s spent 2 years living out of his car, whilst living free in Scotland….that piss bottle will absolutely stink. Like nothing anyone should ever smell!
It ain’t a good Honnold video if his hair doesn’t look like a deformed birds nest
Good to see all the government cheese in the fridge 🙂
Mans a millionaire that lives in a van, perfect
Showering is totally overrated.
I like how everybody in the comment sections like this idea but likely no one here’s doing it.
2:40, what latches are those on the drawers?
I love Alex but why does he need a bottle if he’s always in the woods?
I love his obsession with the pee bottle. Every interview I’ve heard, he talks about his beloved 🤣🤣🤣
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A brave, badass that I look up to! Awesome life!
Dude has bratwursts for fingers.
I super want a Hot Ones interview with this guy!
Borrowed a truck from Amazon. Only thing lacks a shower and sitter.
When I was a kid, I thought it would be so cool to own a giant mansion… As an adult, it’s not appealing at all… Not practical for someone like me
Amen Alex. I was homeless for many years until a month ago. I lived in a 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck with a cap on it. Sometimes I nearly froze, but most of the time I was okay. People don’t need so much stuff in general. However, I don’t recommend being broke and sick and living in a truck to anyone.
What a Zen guy! Totally in the moment! We should all be living like this. We don’t need 9/10’s of the shit we accumulate as we get older. Have to say though, I totally get the portable urinal thing. I have one myself and it’s an godsend (although I would have rinsed mine out before filming it).
an egomaniac and arsehole in the nicest way possible
Maybe a RV maker should sponsor him.
"Man I wish I had my bottle." LOL
Like what if like it like rains like🙄?
2:12 SO Alex does use protection!!
Ah to be living in a van down by the river.
I NEED to shower every day…if I’m going to be around people. I get sweaty and smelly just from sleeping. I can get real funky if I didn’t shower every day.
Alex nomadland
just wait till Alex discovers Winnebago’s
watching Alex ascending El Sendero Luminosa with Cedar Wright filming – inspiring and breathtaking like watching Jesus walk on water
peeing in the bottle though – in words of Kevin Hart – your flops? boy, pick your ass up and take the trash out – there is no climate on Earth in which peeing outside is difficult, just lazy
but – Alex Gideon, you have something i want – be truely on the move and travel light like Jesus, as guest, not carrying your house around
you may think you have some idea of what your are in possession of but you do not
owning a van with all the heavy house stuff instead of using transport and friends to move around and focusing on performance – verbal and climbing rather than being "almost-guest" with a van-house
having multiple pairs of shirts and pants when – like in Men In Black – you only ever need one – the last suit you’ll ever wear – light running Nike suit: pants, t-shirt, underwear, socks, shoes, jacket – all single, all light, fast wash and instant dry – otherwise you’re heavy and cant walk on water like Jesus
having a heavy backpack instead of light one to protect your droid – laptop – like Groot protects Guardians from explosions in Vol 2
kitchen? this is most insane of all – guests shouldn’t carry kitchen or anything house around – you can easily nowadays assemble right in a store a whole foods plant based vegan magic Lothlorien dish – just choose dried fruits, nuts, fruit, salt, vegetables, grains, legumes – which can be a pack of raisins, peanuts, kiwis, some salt off the shelf that fell from bags, carrots onions potatoes, frozen corn, canned beans
cooking? no cooking needed but a light microwave touch – and microwaves are nowadays in store’s cafe – warm corn and microwave-bake potatoes and onion – and you have your mill
tuppleware? a vegan jar of beskar parens ( ) – pick up a cabbage leaf which are always left over in cabbage pile or pick one off the cabbage – that’s your plate – the jar – for the meal – like Hela says in Thor Ragnarok – darling, you have no idea what’s possible
shower? can wash oneself and clothes in a public place’s sink – in a store, in a library – because light running suit is more like skin then clothes – it dries fast, right on you – like when Hermione casts a magic dry-clothes spell in Deathly Hallows
after the meal microwave the cabbage leaf – careful, 15-30 seconds, they tend to inflame
in words of Pierce from Logan – Wolverine, seeing you carrying around all that housing-sleeping-cooking-non-guest stuff breaks my dam’ heart
soon he will be back with me
simple as Game Changers
if Jordan instead of playing the money game with all the evil commercials and being a leader just focused on being the guard, the scorer, the guests – he would have had more than 6 rings – as funny as it sounds, he underachived
if Alex Honnold didn’t settle like a family man but stayed dirt – but light for real – bag instead of recording evil master classes – master class?! seriously?! – we would have seen so many more truely free and inspiring videos and adventures like those with Cedar – Of Choss and Lions, El Sendero Luminosa – when children travel, not husbands – instead of dreadful and weepy and poisonous film Solo – like Agent J says in Men In Black 3 when K asks – do you know what’s the most destructive force in the universe? – :J sugar?
he means more to me than you will ever know
even dust of the idea of a van – hypocritical house – or carrying anyhting house with us – we shake off of our Obama-Seinfeld-Nike running shoes
but be sure – true guests – who dont own squat but move around and program freely
no money-jobs-coins-donations-ads-sponsors-bounties lethal disease
who program peer-to-peer programs, including unseen competitve games and sport and e-sport performances
who dont have and agent or bag or purse – but are butt-naked guests armed with the Word – like Jack Sparrow when he epicly steps on the dock off the sinking ship
who are focused on best performance only and are above even carrying a cup of water like Jonah Hill in his SNL Monologue – it’s a modern day Kabuki
who sing with their own voice like Peter Dinklage Still-Going-Strong
are steaming ahead on Hogwarts Express along with Pat Brown and Impossible Foods mission
and will be served in vegan jars of beskar parens ( )
this is the way
:Frank-Skinner Jon, when you’ve been a celebrity long enough you’ll realize that money is no longer relevant
He’s kinda gross ngl
Something tells me that if he were the only person on earth, he would live the exact same lifestyle.
hAh i live in a home and i dont shower!
Im so happy for Alex neck. It can straighten now after 7 or 8 yrs of living in his first van!!
Haha…. You can tell he can’t wait to get these promo things over with.
Bro… Stick to climbing. I feel like had he been born in Russia 120 years ago, he’d be some totalitarian commissar. Extolling the virtues of living a life without God, private property, meat, hot showers, entertainment, extra money as some fulfilling, self affirming experience and lifestyle. That he is here to force everyone – at gunpoint – to try.
My Hero