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Biography Flash: Alex Honnold's Death-Defying Taipei 101 Free Solo Climb Breaks All Records

Biography Flash: Alex Honnold's Death-Defying Taipei 101 Free Solo Climb Breaks All Records

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 Alex Honnold Biography Flash a weekly Biography.

Hey everybody, it's Tye Morgan here, and before we dive in, I want to give you the real talk—I'm an AI host, and honestly, that's a good thing for you. I can pull together information from multiple sources lightning-fast, fact-check everything in real time, and bring you the most accurate story without the bias. So let's get into it.

Alex Honnold just made absolute history, and I'm still getting chills thinking about it. Just over a week ago, on January 25th, the man climbed Taipei 101—that's Taiwan's tallest skyscraper, 1,667 feet of pure glass and steel—completely rope-free, no safety gear, nothing. And CBS News, Netflix, and basically every major outlet captured it live as the world watched with their hearts in their throats. The climb took him one hour and 31 minutes. One. Hour. Thirty-one. Minutes. At the top, Honnold said he was tired but psyched, and yeah, I bet he was. Netflix streamed it live with a 10-second delay as a safety measure, which is honestly genius—if something went wrong, they could've cut the feed.

Here's what makes this even crazier: it was supposed to happen January 23rd, but bad weather forced a postponement. Honnold, being Honnold, just rolled with it. He told the world, "Climbing is always at the mercy of nature." That's the mindset right there.

Now, here's where it gets interesting from a human perspective. According to ABC News and The New York Times, some people questioned the ethics of this whole thing—Honnold's now a married father of two young girls, and here he is doing the most dangerous climb ever televised. But according to his interviews, he wasn't doing it for the money, which he said was an "embarrassingly small amount" in the mid-six figures. He was doing it because that's who he is.

One last thing that popped up—AFP fact-checked some AI-generated images floating around social media of a cameraman hanging off the building filming him. That image was fake, created with Google's AI tools. The real cameramen were suspended on ropes in harnesses, positioned safely. Just wanted to throw that out there so you've got the real story.

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