Title: jared leto- Tommy Caldwell( 2)

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here come so about how far down is that? do you have any idea?

that's about 3,000 feet at least really

our tallest mountain in Georgia's 3,000 feet

this is insane

how's it feel stepping over the edge?

just like going to work? I'm pretty used to it

It will slide I mean definitely it was

nerve-racking for a while though like

the first time I wrapped off the top of

El Cap I was like oh Jesus this is intense

and the problem is no matter how well you

guys film you're not gonna capture how ridiculous this is

this is a whole another level of crazy

the kind of climbs I do are inherently quite risky

but I think the moments in my life where I've

been close to death or some of the most

powerful they tend to change you the most

this girl was taken hostage by Islamic

militants in Central Asia they were on

the gunpoint for six days little food no

water and freezing cold temperatures

at 13,000 feet Caldwell says while they

were held captive the conditions were horrible

my first big international climbing

exhibition when I was 21 years old was

to Southwest Kyrgyzstan this remote

beautiful climbing valley that was very

similar to Yosemite but you know in Central Asia

Came into that trip is like

this little kid and I kind of came out of it really messed up for a while

But it really was this coming-of-age moment

about a week into our climbing trip a

rebel group called the Islamic movement

of Uzbekistan moved into the valley and

the Kyrgyz military showed up to fight

ended up just kind of colliding right on top of us

and we were taken hostage by the Islamic movement

during the six-day period our that

rebel group got kind of picked off one by one by the Kyrgyz military

And we're left with just one remaining captor

to me it was just so obvious

this was our chance to escape

and we ended up climbing up this big steep mountainside through the night

I remember scrambling really quietly

across this rocky ledge behind our captor

I remember reaching out grabbing his gun strap

that was strapped over his shoulder

I remember pulling him off remember him

falling like 50 feet hitting this ledge and then

just like bouncing out of sight into the blackness

and just laying down and putting my head in my hands

and just kind of breaking down and being like what did I just do

within six months after that experience

I was living every day to its fullest

I was like we lived through this experience

and I felt empowered in this way

so for me it was like this incredible life driving force really

about three or four months afterwards

a reporter actually discovered that he

survived the fall and he was taken captive

by the Kyrgyz military and was in jail

people around me that describe

that time in my life when I found that out

they say I came to life again

although I don't really remember it that way

I just remembered I had it within me

to actually take a life

it's one of those things that is just too much to absorb

I'm view my life really as everything

that led up to Kyrgyzstan and then

everything sensed like it had this ripple effect

I think it really led to everything I've done since