Metal Anarchy

Free solo climber Alex Honnold recently climbed the Taipei 101 in Tapei, Taiwan as part of a live special for Netflix. Notably, he has since revealed that he was listening to Tool during the death-defying stunt. He told Variety the following about that:

“It was mostly Tool. It’s a random playlist that I made, that I shared with production. I made it months ago while I was driving. I’ve been training to it a bunch. Basically, rock music that I’ve liked my whole life. Part of the appeal of music is that actually it helps me with pacing. Each bamboo box had been taking me about five to six and a half minutes. I just know how long the songs are. So it gives you a sense of if you’re going fast or slow. But in this case, it all kept cutting out anyway, and I couldn’t really hear and I was kind of like, ‘Whatever. I’m just doing my thing.’”