Alex Honnold climbs skyscraper
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How much was Alex Honnold paid to climb the Taiplei 101 skyscraper? Inside the "an embarrassingly small amount" he received.
But that’s exactly how Sanni McCandless felt watching Honnold scale Taiwan’s 1,667-foot Tapei101 at the same time as millions of Netflix subscribers globally. Honnold, 40, is a free climber, meaning he doesn’t use ropes and relies on his physical strength alone to scale buildings.
Pat McAfee handed out an ideal nickname for Alex Honnold amid his record-breaking Taipei 101 climb, underscoring how ludicrous his Netflix payday was.