Now this is high

[goldk28611]

I\'ve got sweaty palms watching that

Dito ...and i love heights too. Bet that would be awesome to basejump off.

[yehreally]

yeh, what is it with that reaction :confused: like if you were that high you wouldn\'t want sweaty palms.........glu secretions would be more useful...:rollin
 

I\'ve got sweaty palms watching that :Giggle

[andrewrx7]

Have you noticed when he is actually standing on the very top and reaching for his safety lines, he is not actually even holding on! He doesn\'t wrap his right arm around the pole just reaches down to untangle the lines!
At that height, I assume the whole tower would be swaying to? Would you feel the movement?

[Prof]

I\'m actually wondering how they assembled this rather slender tower in the first place- there\'s some quite hefty nuts and bolts at the top - surely someone didn\'t have to climb up there with those tools :confused:
 
You\'d never get a crane in that high either.

[andrewrx7]

Someone asked the same question in one of the comments under one of the copies of the video on Youtube. The reply (rightly or wrongly) was that yes, someone does have to be up the antenna bolting it together. They lift the relevant pieces by helicoptor. If that is true, it\'s onehellofa dangerous thing to be doing! Can\'t see how you would do it any other way. Mind you, the weight of the sections must be pretty large - how on earth do they position the pieces even before they get to bolt them together?!?

[AMH]

When they were building the Burj Khalifa in Dubai you could see the cranes actually attached to the main structure at the top. Apparently the guys operating them stayed up there all week as it took so long to climb up and down.

[Hi RX7]

Someone asked the same question in one of the comments under one of the copies of the video on Youtube. The reply (rightly or wrongly) was that yes, someone does have to be up the antenna bolting it together. They lift the relevant pieces by helicoptor. If that is true, it\'s onehellofa dangerous thing to be doing! Can\'t see how you would do it any other way. Mind you, the weight of the sections must be pretty large - how on earth do they position the pieces even before they get to bolt them together?!?

Yes you are right they do normally use a helcoptor but there still has to be someone to bolt it together a very dangerous highly skilled job which is very well paid.

[johnf]

Back up

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8244494?fr=yvmtf

[Arnie_O]

not a big fan of hights but thats some seriously scary doodoo

[AtomicRex]

It\'s now on Sky News!
 
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100918/video/vod-amazing-video-of-workers-scaling-hug-dfc7e2c.html
 
I used to climb and would happily climb routes I knew without ropes...happily climbing multi pitch routes without ropes.....but that is just nuts!
 
I guess not being able to hear the running commentary by the climbers makes it even more scary!
 
I would like to see his life assurance form...lol