Comment by iamcreasy
4 hours ago
In his El Capitan climb (Free Solo), Alex was worried about cameras or presence of friends watching interfering with the climb. As oppose to that, this climb must have felt very different!
4 hours ago
In his El Capitan climb (Free Solo), Alex was worried about cameras or presence of friends watching interfering with the climb. As oppose to that, this climb must have felt very different!
I'm wondering if this is because El Capitan is a much more technically difficult climb and thus posing much more risk than Taipei 101.
He was able to practice El Capitan over and over, though. Was he able to in Tapei?
Yes, this past week he was doing a lot of practice with a rope. This building isn't new to him. He's also climbed it in previous years I believe.
I'd assume - unlike El Capitan - the pitches here are all pretty much identical, so by the time he got to the third or fourth floor he had it figured out
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He must have. My impression from the documentary is that he practice the climb route many times with safety gear first.
Yes. You can see him here climb with ropes: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/24/world/video/alex-honnold-...
It would be insanely reckless to free solo without practicing first.
I wondered the same because there was a helicopter the entire time. Also the very tip top of Taipei 101 appeared to have many cameras mounted on it, at least through binoculars.