Did Tom Cruise Climb Mission: Impossible 2’s Mountain Without A Safety Cable?

Mission: Impossible 2 opens with an incredible sequence of Tom Cruise rock climbing with no safety cables as superspy Ethan Hunt climbs a mountain with no safety cables leading to speculation if the stunt was real. Mission: Impossible 2 marked something of a turning point for Cruise. Before the sequel, the actor appeared in a variety of genres, with his star power alone often enough to make a given film a success. With Mission: Impossible 2, he set out to make himself an action hero, and to that end hired genre master John Woo as director and performed several impressive stunts himself. But did Tom Cruise climb the mountain in Mission: Impossible 2?