Random people fancy themselves free soloists after watching Alex Honnold climb Taipei 101. Because how hard can it be? The Free Solo star recently climbed the 1,667-foot skyscraper live on Netflix without ropes or safety equipment. Fortunately, AsiaOne has compiled some of these attempts in a social-media post, so we can all marvel at how not-normal Honnold really is.
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“Alex Honnold’s free-solo climb on Sunday (Jan 25) was mind-boggling . . . here’s how regular folks fare trying to replicate it,” wrote AsiaOne in the Instagram post.
Watch some random people try to climb Taipei 101, just like Alex Honnold:
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