Brie Larson just let a year-long secret spill, and it involves a pretty impressive physical feat. Larson climbed Grand Teton, the second highest elevation in Wyoming, back in August 2019 after only six weeks of training. The actress just released a short documentary of her climb on YouTube, which is filled with spectacular views and an even more incredible story.
Larson was challenged by her trainer Jason Walsh, who is from Wyoming, to climb the 13,775 foot mountain after the two trained hard for her role in Captain Marvel. In the YouTube video, Larson calls the climb a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” she couldn’t pass up. So the duo enlisted the help of Jimmy Chin, a professional climber and Academy Award-winning director, to help train and guide them on their journey.
Though climb took place a full year ago, but Larson told no one, as the climbing crew wanted to keep the accomplishment a secret until it was the perfect time to release the 16-minute documentary of the experience.
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In the video, Larson recaps how she and Walsh trained for six weeks, but caveats that the two were in really good shape ahead of time due to Captain Marvel training. To begin their dedicated rock climbing training, the pair spent hours at the climbing gym to practice basics because neither had ever rock climbed before. Then they took their practice to an actual cliffs, which Larson says was “way, way harder” than she thought it would be.
“Are you sure this is a practice climb?” Larson asks Chin during one climb that was indeed just for practice. Admittedly, Chin was purposefully giving Larson and Walsh extremely difficult practice climbs to make Grand Teton seem more manageable. But the 13,000 foot behemoth was still an intense challenge.
“I’m just now realizing I never even googled the Grand Teton to know what I was signing up for,” Larson says in the video just days before the climb is slated.
Ready or not, climb day comes and the crew puts almost two months of relentless training to the test. Larson says that the ability to control her mind and emotions, which she learned through acting, helped her to stay calm, motivated and persistent in her climbing. Chin adds Larson was one of the most successful students he’s ever trained due to these key qualities.
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With fierce determination and impressive skill, Larson completes the climb with Walsh. And when the actress reaches the summit of Grand Teton, she revels in the view and the accomplishment, as one should.
“I don’t know how to describe getting to the top,” Larson says in the video. “You just get so deeply rewarded with that view. That view is out of control.”
Larson says she hopes her experience will inspire others to push their limits—and maybe give climbing a try.
“If I can do it, you can do it,” she says. “I don’t think that I am a superhuman. I know that I play one in a movie but there’s a lot of CGI and wires involved.”
Watch the entire climb, from training to summit, below:
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