TAIPEI, Jan 25 (BBC): American climber Alex Honnold has successfully scaled a Taiwan skyscraper without a rope, harness or safety equipment.
The building, named Taipei 101 for the number of its floors, stands at 508m (1,667ft) of steel, glass and concrete and is designed to resemble a stick of bamboo.
Honnold is renowned for being the first person to climb El Capitan, the vertical granite cliff in California's Yosemite national park - also without ropes or safety gear.
Honnold completed the climb in one hour and 31 minutes and celebrated the achievement with one word: "Sick." His time more than halves the record of the only other person to scale the tower.
Alain Robert, a Frenchman who called himself "Spiderman", made it to the top of Taipei 101 - at the time the world's tallest building - in four hours. He did so with ropes and a harness.
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