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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jacob Stolworthy

Alex Honnold’s wife shares what she was really thinking watching husband climb Taipei 101

The wife of Alex Honnold no doubt felt a lot of emotions watching her husband climb the world’s 11th-tallest skyscraper, but you might not have expected “joyful” to be one of them.

But that’s exactly how Sanni McCandless felt watching Honnold scale Taiwan’s 1,667-foot Tapei101 at the same time as millions of Netflix subscribers globally. Honnold, 40, is a free climber, meaning he doesn’t use ropes and relies on his physical strength alone to scale buildings.

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