{"id":262546,"date":"2026-01-25T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/262546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:47:08","slug":"live-updates-alex-honnold-to-free-solo-climb-taipei-101-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/262546\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Alex Honnold to free solo climb Taipei 101 skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2243878547.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"Alex Honnold speaks at Yosemite National Park, California on October 26, 2025.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2445\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhpkqx00023b6p5k79a84i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Alex Honnold, 40, has been climbing since childhood \u2013 later dropping out of college to pursue the sport full-time.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhqo1e00083b6pbyipdrbm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He became a wunderkind in the climbing world in 2008 when he was the first person to free solo the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome at Yosemite National Park, and the Moonlight Buttress at Zion National Park.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhqo1e00093b6pwasgnu4a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He continued climbing major routes around the world, setting records and gaining international attention \u2013 including a 2010 documentary about his Half Dome climb, and a 2016 memoir he penned about the experience. He also founded the Honnold Foundation, an environmental non-profit focused on supporting solar energy initiatives.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhqo1e000a3b6p67ucr99o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But it was El Capitan that made him a household name.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhqo1e000b3b6pv0h65umd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In 2017, after more than a year of preparation and training, Honnold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/05\/us\/rock-climber-alex-honnold-first-free-solo-el-capitan-yosemite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free soloed the vertical rock formation in Yosemite<\/a>, a nail-biting ascent captured in the award-winning 2018 documentary \u201cFree Solo.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhqo1e000c3b6pt007ame2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Honnold became an instant celebrity, appearing on talk shows like \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d and delivering a TED Talk that\u2019s been viewed millions of times on YouTube.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmkrhqo1e000d3b6ptg0l9i09@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Since then, he\u2019s gotten married, had two children, launched a podcast, and \u2013 of course \u2013 kept climbing.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Honnold, 40, has been climbing since childhood \u2013 later dropping out of college to pursue the sport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,107162,61,129781,60],"class_list":["post-262546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-hnk","tag-ie","tag-intl","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}