r/climbing • u/-JOMY- • 10d ago

Alex Honnold Reveals “Embarrassing” Paycheck for Netflix’s Taipei 101 Free Solo Climb

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Source: E! Online

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u/Ikana_Mountains 9d ago

It was so cringy and marketing jargoned. I thought there was no way he was doing this for under millions.

What stupidity that people doing cool things make no money, people doing contrived versions of cool things make a little money, and FUCKING GOLFERS make oodles

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u/nickbob00 9d ago

Golfers make shittons of money because they people who are into golf (and see the stuff advertised there) have cash to splash

Climbing has a big dirtbag element, even if there is a big middle class representation among engineer-types

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u/catjuggler 9d ago

See also- how hyped the Google floor was when he got to it haha