American climber Alex Honnold, 40, has scaled Taiwan’s tallest tower, without a safety net or a harness, thereby becoming the first person to do so.
Spectators in hundreds gathered as Alex began his journey up the ‘Taipei 101.’
After an hour and a half, Alex had successfully climbed 1,667 feet (508 meters), and uttered the word “sick” as he took in the view.
The risky adventure was captured and broadcast live on streaming platform Netflix. “Time is finite,” Honnold said in a press briefing, adding that people should “use it in the best way.”
Honnold told reporters that it is a dream come through as it has been his lifelong dream adventure to scale Taipei 101. He added that he had considered scaling the building without permission after his first request was denied.
“But then out of respect for the building and respect for all the people on the team who’d allowed me access to look at it, I was like, well obviously I’m not going to poach this, I’m going to respect the people and just see if it ever comes together,” he told reporters.
“For the project to come together more than a decade later… It’s so great. What an opportunity, it is such a pleasure.”
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1: NETFLIX
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