Alex Honnold
I Did not Make A lot Climbing Taipei 101!!!
Revealed
Alex Honnold says the cash he made free solo climbing one of many tallest skyscrapers on the earth was shockingly low.
The legendary rock climber revealed his payday for scaling Taipei 101 — a 1,667 foot, 101-story tower — was “embarrassingly small,” particularly when in comparison with the huge contracts earned by mainstream professional athletes. The demise defying climb, which aired stay on Netflix, earned Honnold a “mid six figures” payout, in accordance with the New York Instances.
Regardless of the modest test, Honnold says the cash wasn’t the motivation. In actual fact, he admitted he would’ve taken on the damaging climb even with no paycheck if he had permission from the constructing.
“If there was no TV program and the building gave me permission to go do the thing,” Honnold instructed the paper, “I would do the thing because I know I can, and it’d be amazing.”
The stunt took simply over an hour and a half and added one other jaw dropping achievement to Honnold’s resume. He famously grew to become the primary particular person to free solo climb El Capitan in Yosemite in 2017.
