{"id":389527,"date":"2026-01-25T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:08:08","slug":"alex-honnold-completes-live-netflix-free-solo-climb-of-taipei-101-without-safety-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/389527\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Honnold completes live Netflix free solo climb of Taipei 101 without safety gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taiwan&#8217;s Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim congratulated Honnold on the ascent, writing on X: &#8220;I admit I would probably feel sick, too, barely able to watch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Honnold was greeted at the top of the building by his wife, who expressed concern for the wind and heat as he climbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there was another distraction during his ascent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Honnold reached the 89th floor, fans cheered and waved, face to face but for the window with the man clinging to the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DT6sBlck43T\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video of the moment, external<\/a> was shared by Honnold and Netflix on Instagram, showing the climber continuing undeterred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Honnold has made many extreme climbs during his career. A documentary about his ascent of the 3,000 foot (915m) El Capitan, titled Free Solo, won an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim congratulated Honnold on the ascent, writing on X: &#8220;I admit I would probably&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-389527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}