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This video did the rounds many years ago now, still quite an uncomfortable watch especially when he gets to the top! I understand they don't allow 'free climbin

This video did the rounds many years ago now, still quite an uncomfortable watch especially when he gets to the top! I understand they don't allow 'free climbing' any more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM

ddoolin 2y ago
This makes me physically very uncomfortable to watch. What a thrill.
isoprophlex 2y ago
I am afraid of heights. I had to go back halfway through going up the Eiffel tower. Jesus fuck this video has me on edge. I don't know what moved me to click that link, haha. These people have balls of tungsten, that's for sure.
- HL33tibCe7 2y ago
  These people presumably aren’t scared of heights, so I’m not sure we can really comment on their balls
  - fecal_henge 2y ago
    I'd say their balls have a relative density in between bromine and tungsten. Uranium = customer service roles.
  - Intermernet 2y ago
    People who work at heights usually have just enough fear of heights to not do something stupid. Those with no fear of heights tend to make fatal mistakes. Source: 35 years of climbing and 10 years of industrial rope access :-)
    - mordechai9000 2y ago
      To quote Jim Whitaker, once upon a time a famous climber and founder of a well known mountain guide company, "If you're not afraid of heights, I don't want to be on the mountain with you".
    - aqfamnzc 2y ago
      Hi, I've considered changing careers to rope access or similar for a while now. Can I interview you about your job? Please email me, see profile. (This request extends to other RATs reading this too!)
      - Intermernet 2y ago
        No problem, I've sent you an email.
- digitalsankhara 2y ago
  Is not the height that gets me, it is the edges!
- gadders 2y ago
  Try watching this guys Insta videos: @alainrobertofficial He's a French guy famous for free-soloing skyscrapers. I don't have a particular fear of heights but I nope out of some of his videos pretty quickly.
dist-epoch 2y ago
Also a movie, Fall: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/
- doubleg72 2y ago
  Haha a lot like the flick where the guy is trapped in a phone booth for the entire movie.
defrost 2y ago
I free climbed radio towers on mesa's in the Pilbara as part of work experience in high school .. bit before health and safety was a thing. The steeplejack work of Fred Dibnah is quite a thing to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg
- jlarcombe 2y ago
  yes indeed, and any English person of the appropriate age will have seen children's TV present John Noakes climbing Nelson's Column and then going over the edge in a bosun's chair to clean it, with no harness, utterly terrifying! https://youtu.be/tGZ-h70IK9s https://youtu.be/tGZ-h70IK9s
  - defrost 2y ago
    More terrifying and yet unseen .. the cameraman had to hump his gear past the overhang to film Noakes arriving .. and those 50+ year old cameras weren't GoPro's or iPhones.
    - jlarcombe 2y ago
      Yes! You do see him standing at the top in one of the long shots. Terry Doe, interviewed briefly in this documentary about Noakes: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c72u3 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c72u3
- Optimal_Persona 2y ago
  The Fred Dibnah stuff is some of the most impressive stuff I've seen, not just the scaling heights but the logistics of building the ladders as he went, and the demolition of large brick structures with a minimum of tools.
guerrilla 2y ago
This video was how I started to challenge my fear of heights, watching it over and over until I got desensitized, then found hundreds more similar videos and did the same, eventually getting obsessed with rock climbing movies, which taught me a lot. I haven't been able to actually climb since then due to injuries but the whole thing changed my life and made facing fears and working on myself in general a standard thing I just do now. Check out the rooftoppers who climb cranes too btw. Beautiful views. Risky stuff.
vertego 2y ago
Obligatory Man On Wire reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire Incredible and unusual documentary, not too much vertigo. It's essentially like a bank heist movie.

ddoolin 2y ago

This makes me physically very uncomfortable to watch. What a thrill.

isoprophlex 2y ago

I am afraid of heights. I had to go back halfway through going up the Eiffel tower. Jesus fuck this video has me on edge. I don't know what moved me to click that link, haha. These people have balls of tungsten, that's for sure.

HL33tibCe7 2y ago
These people presumably aren’t scared of heights, so I’m not sure we can really comment on their balls
- fecal_henge 2y ago
  I'd say their balls have a relative density in between bromine and tungsten. Uranium = customer service roles.
- Intermernet 2y ago
  People who work at heights usually have just enough fear of heights to not do something stupid. Those with no fear of heights tend to make fatal mistakes. Source: 35 years of climbing and 10 years of industrial rope access :-)
  - mordechai9000 2y ago
    To quote Jim Whitaker, once upon a time a famous climber and founder of a well known mountain guide company, "If you're not afraid of heights, I don't want to be on the mountain with you".
  - aqfamnzc 2y ago
    Hi, I've considered changing careers to rope access or similar for a while now. Can I interview you about your job? Please email me, see profile. (This request extends to other RATs reading this too!)
    - Intermernet 2y ago
      No problem, I've sent you an email.
digitalsankhara 2y ago
Is not the height that gets me, it is the edges!
gadders 2y ago
Try watching this guys Insta videos: @alainrobertofficial He's a French guy famous for free-soloing skyscrapers. I don't have a particular fear of heights but I nope out of some of his videos pretty quickly.

dist-epoch 2y ago

Also a movie, Fall: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/

doubleg72 2y ago
Haha a lot like the flick where the guy is trapped in a phone booth for the entire movie.

defrost 2y ago

I free climbed radio towers on mesa's in the Pilbara as part of work experience in high school .. bit before health and safety was a thing. The steeplejack work of Fred Dibnah is quite a thing to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg

jlarcombe 2y ago
yes indeed, and any English person of the appropriate age will have seen children's TV present John Noakes climbing Nelson's Column and then going over the edge in a bosun's chair to clean it, with no harness, utterly terrifying! https://youtu.be/tGZ-h70IK9s https://youtu.be/tGZ-h70IK9s
- defrost 2y ago
  More terrifying and yet unseen .. the cameraman had to hump his gear past the overhang to film Noakes arriving .. and those 50+ year old cameras weren't GoPro's or iPhones.
  - jlarcombe 2y ago
    Yes! You do see him standing at the top in one of the long shots. Terry Doe, interviewed briefly in this documentary about Noakes: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c72u3 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c72u3
Optimal_Persona 2y ago
The Fred Dibnah stuff is some of the most impressive stuff I've seen, not just the scaling heights but the logistics of building the ladders as he went, and the demolition of large brick structures with a minimum of tools.

guerrilla 2y ago

This video was how I started to challenge my fear of heights, watching it over and over until I got desensitized, then found hundreds more similar videos and did the same, eventually getting obsessed with rock climbing movies, which taught me a lot. I haven't been able to actually climb since then due to injuries but the whole thing changed my life and made facing fears and working on myself in general a standard thing I just do now. Check out the rooftoppers who climb cranes too btw. Beautiful views. Risky stuff.

vertego 2y ago

Obligatory Man On Wire reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire Incredible and unusual documentary, not too much vertigo. It's essentially like a bank heist movie.