Again within the Seventies, Philippe Petit carried out a harmful tightrope act between the World Commerce Middle’s Twin Towers, a feat chronicled within the nice 2008 documentary Man on Wire. In 2018, Free Solo supplied a take a look at one other sort of daredevil, Alex Honnold, a world-renowned rock climber well-known without spending a dime soloing, the act of climbing with none ropes or harnesses. The movie follows Honnold on his quest to free solo El Capitan, a sheer 3,000 foot cliff at Yosemite Nationwide Park, and the toll it took on his physique and thoughts. Free Solo arrives to Netflix Jan. 1, so you possibly can stream it earlier than you tune in to Skyscraper Reside on Jan. 23, a Netflix particular occasion the place Honnold will try and scale one of many tallest skyscrapers on this planet, the 1,667 foot hight Taipei 101, with no ropes, dwell on digital camera.
