Alex Honnold Netflix Alex Honnold, a longtime professional rock climber renowned for his free solo ascents, is not sweating his upcoming appearance in Netflix‘s Skyscraper Live, the live television event during which he will embark on the largest urban free solo climb by scaling Taipei 101 sans ropes and safety nets. Calling it his “lifelong dream,” the subject of 2018’s Oscar and Emmy-winning Free Solo documentary compared the feat to live football or MMA, telling CNN in an interview that the act just “seems more dramatic because the consequences are so much higher.” “I feel like it’s going to be fine,” he added. Watch on Deadline Related Stories News Brittany Snow Teases 'Hunting Wives' Season 2 Will Leave Fans "Very Shocked" & "Angry" News Matt Damon Explains How Audiences' Low Attention Spans Influenced Netflix's Rule For "How You Make Movies" Noting the risk of the daring climb, Honnold — who first rose to fame as the inaugural free solo climber to scale El Capitan’s full route — acknowledged, “If something happens, I would die — though actually, on this particular building, that’s not even totally true because there are balconies every few floors.
