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U.S. climber Alex Honnold made an hour-and-a-half "free solo" ascent of Taiwan's Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday (January 25) without ropes, watched by thousands of cheering and waving fans as he clambered up one of the world's tallest buildings. - REUTERS

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00:00You know, I first saw Type 0101 over 10 years ago and was like, wow, that's incredible for
00:15climbing. That would be amazing. But at the time, didn't get the opportunity to actually climb it.
00:19I thought about climbing it without permission, you know, don't tell anybody. You know, but I was
00:24kind of like, oh, I know I can do it and it would be amazing. Like, maybe I should. But then out of
00:27respect for the building and respect for all the people on the team who had allowed me
00:31access to look at it, I was like, well, obviously I'm not going to poach this. Like, I'm going
00:34to, you know, respect the people and just see if it ever comes together. And so then for
00:38the project to come together more than a decade later, I'm like, oh, it's so great. What an
00:41opportunity. Yeah, I was like, what a view. It's incredible. I was like, what a beautiful
00:44day. It was very windy. So I was like, don't fall off the spire. I was like trying to balance
00:49nicely. But I was like, what an incredible position. And I mean, what a beautiful way
00:52to see Taipei.
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