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[09/30/25 - 04:01 PM]
Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold to Climb 11th Tallest Building in the World in New Netflix Special "Skyscraper Live"
Named after its 101 floors, Taipei 101 is the tallest building in Taiwan and the 11th tallest in the world standing at 1,667 ft tall.
[via press release from Netflix]

FREE SOLO CLIMBER ALEX HONNOLD TO CLIMB 11th TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD IN NEW NETFLIX SPECIAL "SKYSCRAPER LIVE"

· Free solo climber Alex Honnold is reaching new heights!

· Today, Netflix announced a new live special coming to Netflix in 2026 featuring world-renowned American rock climber Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to free solo one of the tallest buildings on the planet: Taipei 101.

· Named after its 101 floors, Taipei 101 is the tallest building in Taiwan and the 11th tallest in the world standing at 1,667 ft tall.

· Logline: One of the greatest free soloists of all time, Alex Honnold, climbs Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings in the world - LIVE on Netflix.

· "Skyscraper Live will kick off 2026 as our latest global must-watch live event," said Brandon Riegg, Vice President of Nonfiction Series & Sports at Netflix. "Watching Alex Honnold free climb Taipei 101 will be an adrenaline inducing spectacle that you can't look away from. Everyone will be talking about it as it happens."

· Format: 2 hour special

· Production Company: Plimsoll Productions Limited (part of ITV Studios)

· Showrunner & Executive Producer: Al Berman

· Executive Producers: Alex Honnold, Grant Mansfield, James Smith, Alan Eyres, Jonathan Retseck

· Director: Joe DeMaio

· Premiere Date: Early 2026

· Skyscraper Live joins Netflix's robust slate of live programming including Paul vs. Tyson, WWE Raw, The Roast of Tom Brady, NFL Christmas Day on Netflix, FIFA Women's World Cup, Canelo vs. Crawford, Taylor vs. Serrano 3, Jake vs. Tank, Six Kings Slam, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, Dinner Time Live with David Chang and much more.

About Plimsoll Productions

Plimsoll Productions is a global leader in premium unscripted, spanning natural history, adventure, documentaries, Live and factual entertainment. Its Oscar, Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning team is behind more than 50 series, 14 live shows and seven films, including the four-time Emmy award-winning Awkwafina-narrated series A Real Bug's Life, the highest rated non-fiction series in the history of Disney+, the James Cameron-executive produced and Benedict Cumberbatch-narrated Emmy award-winning Super/Natural (National Geographic/Disney+), Animal (Netflix), Earth LIVE (NatGeo), Yellowstone LIVE (NatGeo), Tiny World (AppleTV+), as well as the Alex Honnold series The Devil's Climb and Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold (Disney+/National Geographic), among many more. The company recently premiered Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters(ITV) and Are You My First? (Hulu) and will soon launch the hybrid horror-natural history series Nightmares of Nature with Blumhouse Television for Netflix. Plimsoll's creatives have worked with a wide array of globally recognized talent including David Attenborough, Pedro Pascal, Tom Hiddleston, Robin Roberts, Jeff Goldblum, Morgan Freeman and Sigourney Weaver.





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