Honnold\u2019s family<\/a>, and another for the broadcast (which ran on a 10-second delay for that very reason). \u201c\u2018What are we going to show? What are we going to say?\u2019 We just made the very simple decision that if, God forbid, something happened, we would just cut away within that 10-second timeframe, to either a wide shot of the building \u2026 or we could have cut to the desk where Elle would have said something like, \u2018Something\u2019s gone wrong. We\u2019re going to end our broadcast for now. Please pray for Alex,\u2019 \u201d he reveals. \u201cNothing more than that \u2013 then it becomes a news story.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Alex](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/free-solos-alex-honnold-says-84134001.jpg\")
Alex Honnold with his wife and child. sannimccandless\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Duncan had that contingency statement written on a card, which she kept nestled in her lap for the entire stream as a \u201creminder of the stakes\u201d of Honnold\u2019s climb. \u201cWe all had a lot of confidence in Alex,\u201d she tells Page Six Hollywood. \u201cBut what if there was an earthquake? What if a storm came in? There were just a lot of intangibles and extenuating circumstances outside of his control that led to this idea that this man\u2019s life is actually at stake in front of everyone. And certainly you wonder, if it was to happen and you have to sort of be the face of it, how do you handle it with the delicacy that\u2019s required, with the tone that\u2019s required?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thankfully, none of those plans came to light, as Honnold successfully scaled the building in just over 90 minutes. That feat has spurred on even more viewers watching the full stream post-release with the knowledge that it won\u2019t result in tragedy, Gaspin says. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who didn\u2019t have the heart or the stomach to watch it live, not knowing how it would end.\u201d The numbers prove he\u2019s right: Page Six Hollywood can exclusively reveal that \u201cSkyscraper Live\u201d has landed in Netflix\u2019s Top 10 again on its second week, securing an additional 5.3 million views \u2013 and proving it was never just about the life-or-death stakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope what [Honnold] did was inspire people: this man is willing to put his life on the line in front of the world in pursuit of something that he has always wanted to do. And we got to witness someone who finally saw a dream come true. But also we got to witness one of the greatest athletic feats of all time, from a person who is humble and chill \u2013 afterward, he went to the hotel buffet and had some food with his cameraman,\u201d Duncan says with a laugh. \u201cHe is a remarkable, wonderful person who lives a remarkable life. But I think his message to everyone is that you don\u2019t have to be remarkable to do remarkable things. If you work hard, if you focus and if you really, really, really try to push yourself outside of your limitations, you can accomplish incredible things, and we witnessed him do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Events like \u201cSkyscraper Live\u201d are exactly what coaxed Duncan to join the streamer \u2013 while she won\u2019t be reporting daily on WNBA games like she once did, she now will front events less frequently, but with a much higher impact. \u201cThe tried and true sports fan is gonna tune in no matter what,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I think what\u2019s cool about Netflix is that they\u2019re always trying to approach shows for people that are interested in spectacle, like a big event. You don\u2019t have to watch 162 games of baseball to enjoy Netflix\u2019s Opening Night or Home Run Derby or the \u2018Field of Dreams\u2019 game. They only choose major events that really cross the spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watching a father of two dangle off the side of one of the world\u2019s tallest buildings may sound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,1316,180661,348],"class_list":["post-451460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-page-six-hollywood","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Alex Alex Honnold attends the screening of \u201cFree Solo\u201d at the 2018 LA Film Festival at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on September 27, 2018 in Beverly Hills. Getty Images for Film Independen<\/p>\n