TAIPEI CITY — After spending over an hour-and-a-half climbing to the top of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, Alex Honnold was left kicking himself after realizing there was an elevator just inside.
Honnold paused to look down after ascending all 101 stories of the massive skyscraper, only to see there was an elevator there the whole time.
"I'm such an idiot," sighed Honnold, seeing people waving as they exited the elevator. "I could have died trying to get up here, when all I had to do was just press a button and wait. Aw man, I really should have picked up on something when I started seeing people through the windows on the 54th story. Boy, do I feel sheepish."
According to local sources, hundreds of people on the street below tried to yell to Honnold to tell him about the elevator, but to no avail. "We kept telling him to come down, that there was an elevator just inside," said local man Lin Hsu. "But the idiot thought we were just cheering for him, and kept waving with a big dumb grin. What a moron."
At publishing time, Honnold had asked if anyone could please let him in through a window so he could at least take the elevator back down.
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