{"id":268549,"date":"2025-10-01T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268549\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:03:09","slug":"alex-honnold-to-scale-taiwans-tallest-skyscraper-in-netflix-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/268549\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Honnold to Scale Taiwan&#8217;s Tallest Skyscraper in Netflix Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/free-solo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_free-solo_1\" data-tag=\"free-solo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Solo<\/a> climber Alex Honnold is reaching new heights in an upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix_1\" data-tag=\"netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> special, Skyscraper Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the new 2-hour live special, world-renowned American rock climber Honnold will attempt to become the first person to free solo one of the tallest buildings on the planet, named Taipei 101. The skyscraper, which is the tallest building in Taiwan and the 11th tallest in the world, stands at 1,667 ft tall and includes 101 floors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cSkyscraper Live will kick off 2026 as our latest global must-watch live event,\u201d said Brandon Riegg, vice president of nonfiction series and sports at Netflix. \u201cWatching Alex Honnold free climb Taipei 101 will be an adrenaline inducing spectacle that you can\u2019t look away from. Everyone will be talking about it as it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHonnold was previously featured in the Oscar-winning documentary, Free Solo. It followed his historic free solo of El Capitan\u2019s 3,000-foot Freerider route in Yosemite National Park, which means he climbed it without a rope and alone. Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the film won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHis other accomplishments include the free solo ascents of Zion\u2019s Moonlight Buttress, Yosemite\u2019s Half Dom and the Yosemite \u201cTriple Crown,\u201d which he completed alone and in under 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNetflix\u2019s Skyscraper Live is produced by Plimsoll Productions Limited (part of ITV Studios), with Al Berman serving as showrunner and executive producer. Honnold, Grant Mansfield, James Smith, Alan Eyres and Jonathan Retseck are also exec producers. Joe DeMaio will direct the special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile an exact release date for Skyscraper Live has yet to be announced, the special is expected to premiere in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free Solo climber Alex Honnold is reaching new heights in an upcoming Netflix special, Skyscraper Live. 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