Alex Honnold opens up about the music and mental discipline that carried him through one of the most dangerous climbs of his career, a rope-free ascent of Taipei 101. From a carefully curated rock playlist to a laser-focused mindset built on presence and repetition, Honnold reveals how he stayed calm while scaling a skyscraper with no safety equipment.
Alex Honnold is a professional rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America’s biggest cliffs have made him one of the most recognized and followed climbers in the world. The pinnacle of his career and maybe also the sport of climbing, as captured in the Academy Award winning film, Free Solo, was his 2017 rope-less climb of El Capitan in Yosemite, an accomplishment which The New York Times called “one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, ever.” Contact us to learn more.
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