00:001,667
00:03That is how many feet
00:05Rock climbing legend Alex Honnold
00:08Climbed to get to the top
00:10The Taipei 101 Skyscraper
00:12This weekend
00:12Who knew there were
00:13Rock climbing legends
00:15Not me
00:15But let me tell you
00:16What this guy did
00:17Was as impressive
00:18As it was
00:19To
00:20Terrifying
00:20He did this insane
00:22Climb with no ropes
00:24To keep him secure
00:25If he fell
00:26Think about how high that is
00:28The 40 year old American
00:29Needed
00:30Just 90 minutes
00:31To scale the glass
00:32And steel tower
00:33The world's 11th
00:35Tallest
00:35Building
00:36Fun fact though
00:37It was number one
00:38When it was completed
00:39Back in 2000
00:40But things just got bigger
00:41From there
00:41Anyway
00:42Honnold is no stranger
00:43To the daredevil
00:45Aspects of climbing
00:46The Sacramento native
00:47Is also known
00:48For his ropeless ascent
00:49Of
00:50El Capitan
00:50In Yosemite
00:51And being the first
00:52To climb a
00:533700
00:54Foot
00:55Sheer cliff
00:56In Greenland
00:57Which also sounds cold
00:58Honnold
00:59Was not the first
01:00To scale Taipei 101
01:02Though
01:02A French climber
01:03Scaled that building
01:04Back
01:04On Christmas
01:05In 2004
01:06As a sort of
01:07Grand opening event
01:09Because
01:10You know
01:11That's what you do
01:11He however
01:12Used ropes
01:14Could
01:14As sanity
01:15Honnold's feet
01:17Caused a big
01:18Hoopla
01:19Because it's
01:19Streamed live
01:20On Netflix
01:20Over the weekend
01:21Now he declined
01:22To tell the New York Times
01:23How much he earned
01:24For the stunt
01:24Calling it
01:25An embarrassing amount
01:27But embarrassing
01:28Big
01:29Or embarrassing
01:29Small
01:31I feel like
01:32I would want
01:32A big chunk
01:33Of change
01:33To do that
01:34Without
01:34I
01:34A net
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