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Sanni McCandless watching husband Alex Honnold on Netflix's Skyscraper Live
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- Alex Honnold's wife, with whom he shares two daughters watched him free solo climb the Taiepie 101 skyscraper this weekend, a feat that's being broadcast live on Netflix
- “I think he’s probably really psyched," Sanni McCandless told Netflix during their special, known as Skyscraper Live
- "I’m just trying to stay calm and be in the moment," she said
Alex Honnold's wife was on hand to watch him free solo climb a 101-story building, a feat that's being broadcast live.
“I think he’s probably really psyched," Sanni McCandless, with whom he shares two young daughters, told Netflix during their special on Sunday, Jan. 25, or Saturday, Jan. 24 (in the U.S.), known as Skyscraper Live not long after Honnold, 40, began his journey toward the sky.
"It’s beautiful conditions," McCandless said, "there’s great energy here and he’s doing what he loves.”
Later, McCandless was inside Taiwan's Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings in the world, as he scaled the structure.
She was seen on Netflix's livestream waving to him and laughing from her vantage point. He smiled back as she gave a thumbs up before briefly sticking out her tongue in a feeling of shock or anxiety.
But don't get it twisted. She earlier told Netflix during his climb: "I’m just trying to stay calm and be in the moment."
"I’m breezy," she said.
Ahead of the climb, Honnold — who made history in 2017 by becoming the first person to climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without safety ropes, which was chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentaryFree Solo —told CNN that accomplishing this feat was a “lifelong dream."
He went on to tell Tudum that he has “always had curiosity about what it would feel like to climb a building this big.”
“It’s just rare to get this kind of opportunity, so you gotta jump when you can,” he said.
But climbing a skyscraper comes with its own unique sets of challenges.
For one, as Honnold told Tudum, “buildings are steeper than most rock faces" — and that it has the potential to be "physically more taxing because you're doing the same thing over and over, so your muscles get tired."
"I think the thing that’s most uncertain to me is the psychological state — how’s it going to feel? I’ve never climbed a skyscraper before," he added.
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Ahead of the climb,producers who spoke with Variety said they were keeping an eye on the weather in Taiwan’s capital as well as Honnold’s mind-set.
“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, later adding, "The main focus has been on keeping Alex safe.”https://people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/kz7l4cuf
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From left: Alex Honnold and Sanni McCandless in 2019
Honnold, who prepared extensively for the climb, said that ultimately, the goal remains the same as with any other free solo: Don’t fall off.
“I’m sure I’ll feel a little nervous at the bottom, just because it’s something totally new,” he admitted to Tudum. “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.”
As for climbing in front of potentially millions of people, well, that doesn't seem to bother Honnold much.
“My life is on the line — I don’t really care who’s watching,” he told Tudum. “I care about doing what I’m doing and doing it well.”
Skyscraper Live is airing on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Netflix.
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