Khloé Kardashian said what we all were thinking as she watched Alex Honnold do the seemingly impossible.
“I want to die just watching this,” Kardashian, 41, wrote via her Instagram Stories, alongside a screenshot of Netflix’s Skyscraper Live.
Honnold, 40, embarked on a free solo climb along the side of the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan on Saturday, January 24, without any rope or harness for safety. Honnold’s feat was simultaneously broadcast on Netflix for almost two hours, in which he managed to safely scale the 101-story skyscraper.
“Is this man OK?” Kardashian asked in another Instagram video, further marveling over the rock climber’s stunt. “That’s too slippery! How does he even know?”
As Kardashian kept her eyes glued to the screen, she continually gasped as Honnold climbed higher and higher up the 11th tallest building in the world.
“This guy is psychotic, he’s just on the edge giving an interview, like, not afraid,” the Kardashians star quipped. “I can’t go on f***ing ferris wheel and this guy is literally just chatting, like, step back [from the edge]. I can’t handle [that he’s] speaking on the ledge like it’s nothing. I’m gonna throw up.”
As Honnold climbed, he frequently stopped mid-climb to greet fans waiting inside the building. Without taking his hands off the wall, he briefly paused to allow the individuals to snap selfies.
“This is the most stressful thing. Why is everyone waving at him?” Kardashian lamented. “Let him focus! We’re almost there. I don’t like the selfies. This is terrifying. They should have closed down the building, this is so crazy.”
Alex Honnold. Chong kok-yew/Netflix
She continued, “I’m not built for this. He’s going to hang [off the side] again. I can’t handle it. He’s so far up, this is insane — but for what? Why are we doing this?”
According to Kardashian, she was the most floored that Honnold was even able to scale a building without any safety precautions in place.
“This is the most insane thing I’ve ever seen,” she quipped.
Honnold ultimately reached the very top of the building in just under two hours, snapping selfies of the panoramic landscape from the building’s spire.
“OK, he did it even though I had a heart attack this whole time,” Kardashian said at the end of the livestream. “He seems calmer, like, he seems so cool and calm and collected — this is insane. And stop looking down! Wow, OK, it’s windy. Don’t wave [and] just get down. How the hell does he get down? But, good job, Alex.”
Honnold eventually climbed down from his record-breaking ascent, marveling to Variety that he was capable of accomplishing his goal.
“When I was standing on the top, I was kind of like, ‘Am I slow? Am I fast? Should I stay here forever?’ I was just having a great time,” he told the outlet from inside the 88th floor. “One of the main challenges of the climb is the pacing. If you have to go really fast, you get tired, but if you take your time and you wave to people and you enjoy the experience and enjoy the views, you don’t get as tired. It makes the whole thing feel less scary. And so I was kind of like, ‘I’m just gonna embrace the experience and just have a good time, and it’ll make it all feel better.’”
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