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Ben Rogerson

“What the heck were you thinking, dude?”: As Alex Honnold reveals just how much Tool he listened to during his free climb of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, the band’s frontman Maynard James Keenan speaks for all of us

Alex Honnold.

Given that he managed to scale Taiwan’s Taipei 101 - one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world - without ropes, a safety net or a parachute, we’re guessing that free climber Alex Honnold’s kit bag for the Netflix-broadcast feat was pretty small.

One thing he did have, though, was a set of earbuds, enabling him to communicate with his team and listen to music. So, what do you vibe to when you’re attempting something like this? In Honnold’s case, the answer was ‘a lot of heavy rock and metal’, with a particular focus on Tool.

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