The live stream followed the professional climber’s historic trek atop one of the world’s tallest structures Netflix ’s “Skycraper Live” went off without a hitch, as professional rock climber Alex Hon...

Alex Honnold’s death-defying free solo climb of Taipei 101 captivated a global audience and became one of Netflix’s most talked about live sports spectacles to date.

“Actually, if you put it in the context of mainstream sports, it’s an embarrassingly small amount,” Honnold, 40, joked in a story with The New York Times, published Friday, January 22.