For Alex Honnold, the feat of free solo climbing Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings in the world, was never about the money. Even so, he said he was paid an "embarrassing amount" to perform the daring climb on Netflix's Skyscraper Live on Saturday, January 24. "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. "You know, Major League Baseball players get like $170 million contracts. Like, someone you haven't even heard of and that nobody cares about.