Holy crap...

[Zappy]

Another non-boxing link and it seems like the video isn't staying up long, so if the link goes down, just do a search for “Stairway to Heaven Climb”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccjrp5NRYE

My legs are still weak after watching this. I don't think I could do that job even for a winning powerball ticket.

[Kicksome]

Yeah, that video was awesome.

[Mosg2]

I think of myself as a pretty manly man but I almost had a panic attack watching it.

[not5150]

Anyone else get sweaty palms while watching this?

I fly small planes and do occasional rock climbing, but this is CRAZY.

[Lyonheart]

damn they took it down.. can you desicribe what it was?

[Kicksome]

A video of a guy climbing a crazy tall tower, way, way taller than the empire state building.

Here's a pic from the video:

http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/End-Frame.png

[Kicksome]

Here's the clip on Yahoo:
http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494&l=5144241

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'd do it, but it would take me a lot longer as my procedure would be:

1) Go up two rungs.
2) Reattach safety harness clip.
3) Repeat steps 1-2.

[Mystic]

It is a helmet-cam shoot of a radio tower engineer, doing his climb to the top of a quarter-mile high tower, largely foregoing safety measures for the sake of efficiency. Ugh. No thanks, for any amount of cash.

Here's a link that is still alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRIbo7cvmQs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRIbo7cvmQs)

[Littleburst]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PKW8PtUjs

A video from guys skydiving with a Winged suit. Now that's on my to do list before i die ^^

[Mosg2]

Skydiving is on my list of things to do but... Just looking at that video made me break out in shivers and stress-sweat. No safety measures basically the whole way. And then when he's on top still nothing--A stiff breeze could've blown him off. No way.

[Littleburst]

Skydiving is on my list of things to do but... Just looking at that video made me break out in shivers and stress-sweat. No safety measures basically the whole way. And then when he's on top still nothing--A stiff breeze could've blown him off. No way.

No need to a jackass like them, just hop out of an airplane and flyyyyy :D

[Coltimar]

Why do they keep taking the video down?

[MiRai]

I could barely watch that tower video, you could not pay me enough to do that.

[ebony]

http://thetural.com/wow/images/a_a85603f41fc94c9fbc6601d6968a6960.png (http://thetural.com/wow)

Had to

[Zappy]

Here's the follow up of something similiar, but much more stupid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjDWWpYfNI&feature=player_embedded

[ebony]

It is a helmet-cam shoot of a radio tower engineer, doing his climb to the top of a quarter-mile high tower, largely foregoing safety measures for the sake of efficiency. Ugh. No thanks, for any amount of cash.

Here's a link that is still alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRIbo7cvmQs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRIbo7cvmQs)

removed :(

[Zappy]

I doubt this copy will get pulled quickly:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81100181/

[zenga]

'bah drama queens' was my initial thought upon reading the thread ... while i was waiting on top of the stairs inside voa till raid was ready. until i started to watch the vid, then looked down on my wow screen and quickly ran off the stairs

[wyofiddler]

found another link by searching youtube... OMFG.

I would probably be able to get to the top, but there would never ever be a single second that I didn't have at least one safety line securely attached.

I also consider myself a reasonably-manly man and got sweaty palms after a few seconds, then stopped it and closed the window about halfway thru the 7 min video. N F-ing way would I do that without using safety gear.

The link of the basejumpers seemed a lot more sane/reasonable than this moron climbing with no usage of safety gear.




At least falling from 1768 feet he'll have time to call his lawyer and dictate a will before he goes splat :P

[heyaz]

if you aren't terrified of heights...

why is this a big deal

[not5150]

I'm going to guess his employer is issuing the requests to kill the video.

Hopefully he didn't get fired for making the vid.

[Mosg2]

Well, I'm not terrified of heights but this still freaks me out.

So does that make me terrified of heights? I'm just not sure.

[tanknspanker]

tbh, its very scary.. but i think safety is top priority here,
so i guess i would TRY it ^^
maybe i'll get to 100 meters and thats it xD or maybe more ^^

[Oatboat]

I was getting dizzy the whole time watching that... Everytime he would have to switch ladders i would have to look away....

I wonder how much these tower climbers make... its probably not enough.

[moosejaw]

I am pretty sure this is a copyrighted training video for those in the field. Companies pay big bucks for training and the associated videos. Having the video taken down is the copyright owners way of protecting their investment.

Btw the yahoo video was still up at the time of this post. /yikes Holy vertigo batman.

[daviddoran]

Meh, It's the commute thats the killer for that job...

[lans83]

At least falling from 1768 feet he'll have time to call his lawyer and dictate a will before he goes splat :P

They'd be able to hear me screaming like a banshee from that 55 miles he mentioned too. Would suck ass if he had no cell coverage too.

The heights ain't what made me dizzy from watching it, it's the fact he moves his head around way too much. I'm still wanting to go sky diving, so who's with me? :D