Alex Honnold Soloing Taipei 101

Alex is old news grasping for attention i personally prefer watching Lincoln Knowles. He is funny and has a personality.  

trailridge wrote:

Alex is old news grasping for attention i personally prefer watching Lincoln Knowles. He is funny and has a personality.  

I find LK totally unwatchable. 

Yeah he faked a fall and held it. With super dramatic music. 

Jabroni McChufferson wrote:

Did he do it yet?

This Friday, Jan 23. 

Marc801 C wrote:

I find LK totally unwatchable. 

I believe the kids would call it "cringe".

I'm glad to have not known who he was until last year. No Instagram or tik tok will do that and makes it easy to continue to avoid "influencers". 

trailridge wrote:

Alex is old news grasping for attention i personally prefer watching Lincoln Knowles. He is funny and has a personality.  

Pretty sure you're whoever Lincoln Knowles is by how much you're trying to push him in this thread

John Tuttle wrote:

His family ain't gonna benefit if he makes one mistake. You and I have very different opinions as to what is best for one's family and 2 children. A REAL plan is not doing free solos for money. Eventually it ends in tragedy. If he was "doing it for his family" he'd have a better strat than this travesty to sell caffeine water to kids.

I will bet you $100 he won't fall or slip at all. Its barely going to be 5th class for him. 

John Tuttle wrote:

 A REAL plan is not doing free solos for money.

If you get money for your solo, it is not free. 

The real question is how they make it interesting to watch. It won't be particularly interesting from a technical standpoint, basically the same moves from top to bottom. Not sure how the short form addicted masses will stay interested past the 10 minute mark. 

Whatever they add to up the suspense is likely to be a turn off to those of us who don't enjoy reality TV BS. 

anonymous coward wrote:

The real question is how they make it interesting to watch. 

M M wrote:

In your bubble maybe 

My mom can name 2 climbers and I'm one of them lol. Ole Horngold is about as household as it get. 

Matthew Bell wrote:

My mom can name 2 climbers and I'm one of them lol. Ole Horngold is about as household as it get. 

She probably noticed your Honnold posters all over your room? 

M M wrote:

She probably noticed your Honnold posters all over your room? 

Ah you caught me. I kiss my Mr. Handhold poster every night before bed. Really inspires me to be a better person and disregard the people that care about me for my own personal enjoyment. 

Why is your mom so familiar with Honnold?

Jes' askin'...

amarius wrote:

If you get money for your solo, it is not free. 

!!! rim shot !!!
hah - good one.

Now we need a new thread for determining whether it is correct to call them Professional Solos and Amateur Solos.
Or Free Solos that have lost their Amateur Status?

Simple:

Paid Soloing. 

He's been doing this for a very long time. (after all, baby needs a new pair of shoes)

Gift link to a NYT interview about the climb.  Article claims he is getting "in the mid six figures" for the climb. I also did a quick ctrl-F and he says "I mean" 9 times.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/alex-honnold-netflix-taipei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.3ZD3.WOBB8spMkr_E&smid=url-share

Math Bert wrote:

Gift link to a NYT interview about the climb.  Article claims he is getting "in the mid six figures" for the climb. I also did a quick ctrl-F and he says "I mean" 9 times.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/alex-honnold-netflix-taipei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.3ZD3.WOBB8spMkr_E&smid=url-share

Thanks for sharing! 

I'd expect mid 6 figures actually means around 500k after taxes in Dirtbaganese. I can say for sure that this live event on Netflix is not being well promoted, I wouldn't even know if it wasn't for this thread.

grug g wrote:

I will bet you $100 he won't fall or slip at all. Its barely going to be 5th class for him. 

Something about this unnerves me.  I think 5.11 granite is less risky that low 5th class Taiwanese construction.   I’m sure he’ll be fine and there are plenty of places to bail along the way, but….

• The fact that it’s “easy”, 
• It’s construction not nature
• It’s Taipei (you have to have been there - and then again maybe it’s just my experiences)
• It’s a live “spectacle”

All in all just give me a bad vibe about the whole thing.  Not in a judgy way.