{"id":2249113,"date":"2026-01-25T01:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249113"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:54:48","slug":"american-rock-climber-alex-honnold-begins-his-ascent-of-the-taipei-101-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/american-rock-climber-alex-honnold-begins-his-ascent-of-the-taipei-101-skyscraper\/","title":{"rendered":"American rock climber Alex Honnold begins his ascent of the Taipei 101 skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE – People take photos with the iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper in the background in Taipei, Taiwan, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo\/Chiang Ying-ying, File)<\/span> (Chiangying-Ying, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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TAIPEI<\/strong> \u2013 American rock climber Alex Honnold began his ascent of the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes.<\/p>\n

Cheers erupted from a gathered crowd as he started climbing the tower, using the horizontal metal beams to pull himself up with his bare hands. <\/p>\n

The onlookers cheered again when he paused at one point and turned around to face them, in a red short-sleeve shirt that stood out as he made the climb.<\/p>\n

Honnold’s free solo climb of the iconic building<\/a> in Taiwan’s capital city was being broadcast live on Netflix. The ascent, originally scheduled for the previous day, was delayed for 24 hours due to rain.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wsls.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FILE – People take photos with the iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper in the background in Taipei, Taiwan, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo\/Chiang Ying-ying, File) (Chiangying-Ying, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TAIPEI \u2013 American rock climber Alex Honnold began his ascent of the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes. Cheers erupted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[435260,21741,21848,22814],"class_list":["post-2249113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alex-honnold","tag-entertainment","tag-sports","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/American-rock-climber-Alex-Honnold-begins-his-ascent-of-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249115,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249113\/revisions\/2249115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}