00:00None of us have never done anything like this.
00:04We come from the hood.
00:06South Memphis is a black working-class neighborhood.
00:10Memphis is not mountains and hills.
00:13It's murder's air work.
00:17We started a climbing gym to bring a safe place for youth.
00:22Memphis Rocks is something this community and city needs.
00:26Later this year, Rocks is taking his biggest climbing trip ever, Mount Kenya.
00:32It'll be the biggest, hardest climb any of us has ever attempted.
00:36It's easy to say that all of us are going to make it to the town of Mount Kenya.
00:39It's going to be hard to do it.
00:41If we're going up a mountain together as a team, you don't want to see nobody give up.
00:4516,000 feet is insane.
00:49Bill Henderson is one of the people I look up to the most.
00:52You want to challenge, right?
00:54We all have that common goal.
00:55Just having fun.
00:56The Memphis Rocks crew, they're coming from a tough place.
00:59They're tough people.
01:00But many of them have never claimed outdoors.
01:03Hey, bruh. We from South Memphis.
01:06The second step of this journey, we're here to learn from Mr. Free Solo himself, Alex Honnold.
01:11When did you start climbing, Mike?
01:12Six months ago.
01:13Alex Honnold is one of the greatest athletes I know.
01:17I am the black Alex Honnold.
01:20Black X Mondo.
01:22I like blowers.
01:24The stakes could not be higher.
01:26This is it right here.
01:27I'm shaking like a stripper.
01:29Call the helicopter.
01:31I've never experienced anything like the Memphis Rocks crew.
01:35Either you succeed or you fail.
01:36And as a climber, you fail all the time. That's all you ever do.
01:39People are starting to realize how hard it's going to be.
01:43Oh, yeah, no.
01:44There's no turning back.
01:46Not everyone's going to be able to make it up.
01:49Magical emergency.
01:50See the last continent.
01:51This is so hard.
01:52But y'all make it so easy.
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