It’s a media spectacle – no question about it. When top US climber Alex Honnold free solos (climbing alone and without any safety equipment) the 509-meter-high Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan on Friday night/Saturday morning German time, and Netflix streams it live, Alexander Huber will probably be fast asleep.
“Climbing Taipei 101 will not provide any new insights into climbing, so from that point of view, the event is not relevant to us as climbers,” writes the younger of the two Huber brothers to me. “But of course, it will reach a very wide audience via Netflix, and Alex is obviously entitled to do it.”
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