“It’s obviously a conversation that everybody has,” Netflix executive Jeff Gaspin told Variety magazine. “We’ll cut away. We have a 10-second delay. Nobody expects or wants to see anything like that to happen.”
The climb is now due to take place on Sunday. Announcing the delay, Netflix said: “Safety remains our top priority, and we appreciate your understanding.”
Taipei 101 has been conquered before. In 2004, France’s Alain Robert, who called himself Spiderman, climbed it in four hours using a safety belt and rope.
Netflix said there will be three stages to Honnold’s rope-free climb.
First, there is an initital 113m section of sloping steel and glass followed by the eight “bamboo” boxes before reaching the final stage which includes scaling the spire at the very top of the tower.
