One man took it upon himself to climb to the highest of Taipei 101, a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan, with no ropes, no attachments, no gear, and he really made it to the highest. Skilled climber Alex Honnold simply efficiently scaled the skyscraper, and in a conversation with Variety, says he did it whereas listening to Device the complete time.
“It was principally Device,” Honnold defined, “It’s a random playlist that I made, that I shared with manufacturing. I made it months in the past whereas I used to be driving. I’ve been coaching to it a bunch. Principally, rock music that I’ve preferred my whole life.”
Honnold goes on to say that “a part of the attraction of music is that really it helps me with pacing. Every bamboo field had been taking me about 5 to 6 and a half minutes. I simply understand how lengthy the songs are. So it provides you a way of in the event you’re going quick or gradual. However on this case, all of it stored slicing out anyway, and I couldn’t actually hear and I used to be sort of like, “No matter. I’m simply doing my factor.”
He additionally was requested concerning the connectivity points he was having all through his climb, to which he responded with, “I used to be completely unstressed about all that stuff. There have been instances I couldn’t hear anybody. It doesn’t hassle me by way of climbing, as a result of clearly, I can simply climb in my very own little bubble. I used to be solely anxious about it by way of the printed. I do not know what the timing is, if I’m imagined to be doing one thing, if somebody’s telling me to go quicker or slower. I used to be like, I don’t know what I’m imagined to do, however I’ll simply climb. It was superb. It’s to be anticipated with communications. It’s sort of magical that it even did work in any respect. There are a bunch of spots on the constructing which might be mainly lifeless zones, in all probability as a result of they’ve their very own transmitters and issues. Cell service dies in a bunch of locations within the constructing. So for me to have fairly good communication the entire method up this big factor in the midst of the town, I used to be like, it’s fairly good.”
Alex Honnold‘s climb was aside of a reside particular with Netflix, “Skyscraper Dwell.” Scaling a whopping 1,667-foot skyscraper – the eleventh tallest constructing on this planet – together with his naked palms, is fairly metallic.
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