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One man took it upon himself to climb to the top of Taipei 101, a 101-story skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan, with no ropes, no attachments, no gear, and he actually <\/em>made it to the top. Professional climber Alex<\/strong> Honnold<\/strong> just successfully scaled the skyscraper, and in a conversation with Variety<\/em>, says he did it while listening to Tool the entire time when asked what he listened to throughout his several-hour long climb.<\/p>\n

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“It was mostly Tool<\/strong>,” Honnold<\/strong> explained, “It\u2019s a random playlist that I made, that I shared with production. I made it months ago while I was driving. I\u2019ve been training to it a bunch. Basically, rock music that I\u2019ve liked my whole life.”<\/p>\n

Honnold<\/strong> went on to say that “part of the appeal of music is that actually it helps me with pacing. Each bamboo box had been taking me about five to six and a half minutes. I just know how long the songs are. So it gives you a sense of if you\u2019re going fast or slow. But in this case, it all kept cutting out anyway, and I couldn\u2019t really hear and I was kind of like, \u201cWhatever. I\u2019m just doing my thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also was asked about the connectivity issues he was having throughout his climb, to which he responded with, “I was totally unstressed about all that stuff. There were times I couldn\u2019t hear anyone. It doesn\u2019t bother me in terms of climbing, because obviously, I can just climb in my own little bubble. I was only worried about it in terms of the broadcast. I have no idea what the timing is, if I\u2019m supposed to be doing something, if someone\u2019s telling me to go faster or slower. I was like, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m supposed to do, but I\u2019ll just climb. It was fine. It\u2019s to be expected with communications. It\u2019s kind of magical that it even did work at all. There are a bunch of spots on the building that are basically dead zones, probably because they have their own transmitters and things. Cell service dies in a bunch of places in the building. So for me to have pretty good communication the whole way up this giant thing in the middle of the city, I was like, it\u2019s pretty good.”<\/p>\n

Alex<\/strong> Honnold<\/strong>‘s climb was apart of a live special with Netflix, “Skyscraper Live.” Scaling a whopping 1,667-foot skyscraper \u2013 the 11th tallest building in the world \u2013\u00a0with his bare hands, is pretty metal.<\/p>\n

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