Alex Honnold has become the first person to climb the Taiwanese building alone without safety equipment.
  • thenewred@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The media was trying to make it sound death defying and extreme the entire time, but any time they’d ask a climber about it, “oh he’s chilling.”

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      Regular and reliable holds like this are fairly easy for someone like Honnold. Each individual move is basically trivial so the challenge is maintaining focus over a long period of time, which he is accustomed to as well.