Climber Dad Alex Honnold's Attempt to Scale 101-Story Building on Live TV Delayed by 24 Hours: 'Safety Remains Our Top Priority'

NEED TO KNOW

• Alex Honnold will still be scaling the Taipei 101 skyscraper live on Netflix, just not on Friday
• Less than an hour before the event was planned to start, Netflix announced they had to reschedule for Saturday
• "Safety remains our top priority, and we appreciate your understanding," they said in a statement

Alex Honnold's attempt to climb a 101-story building will have to wait because the live Netflix event has officially been postponed.

In a statement posted online less than an hour before the Skyscraper Live event was set to begin, Netflix announced that "due to weather, we are unable to proceed."

"It has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 24 at 8 PM ET | 5 PM PT," the announcement continued. "Safety remains our top priority, and we appreciate your understanding."

Producers who spoke with Variety before the event was originally scheduled to take place on Friday, Jan. 23, mentioned that they were keeping an eye both on the weather in Taiwan’s capital and would delay the event if they needed to.

In fact, there were a number of things that they said could delay Honnold's free solo climb of Taipei 101, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world.

“There’s a two-tick system,” said Grant Mansfield with Plimsoll Productions. “First and foremost, he [Honnold] has to feel good about it. And we’ve said to him repeatedly, if you’re not feeling it, despite the fact it’s a live broadcast, and there’s a bunch of TV people hanging around, you are under no pressure to do this climb.”

“And the second tick is, if we get in a situation where he’s saying, ‘Yeah, I’m going for it,’ but [if] there are things that bothering us, we have the right to say ‘no,’ “ Mansfield continued. “He won’t be on that building unless we’re all comfortable."

Honnold, who has said he's wanted to scale Taipei 101 for over a decade now, recently told Netflix’s Tudum that when he starts his climb, there will be some butterflies in his stomach to bat away

“I’m sure I’ll feel a little nervous at the bottom, just because it’s something totally new and I don’t know how it’s going to feel,” he said. “I’ve spent 30 years climbing rock faces; this is going to be my first big handmade structure, so I’m sure it’ll feel a little different.”

Honnold went on to add: “My life is on the line — I don’t really care who’s watching. I care about doing what I’m doing and doing it well.”

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However, in another conversation with CNN ahead of his climb he said that a fall on this particular building wouldn't necessarily be fatal.

"There are balconies every few floors,” he said. “The geometry of the building, the shape of the building is such that you actually could fall in tons of places and not actually die, which makes it in some ways safer than a lot of rock-climbing objectives.”

Speaking with Tudum, Honnold said, “I’m very confident that I can climb the building, which is why I’m doing this, but I want to have a good time, I want to smile and enjoy myself, I want to have a good experience.”

Skyscraper Live airs on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Netflix.

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