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Top 10 Tips to Puke Free Climbing
- Find an elevator that will take you the first 1600 feet.
- Where your hard hat… you know, just in case you fall.
- Put a camera on your hat so people can see just how crazy you really are!
- Bring your 30 pound tool bag with you. We wouldn’t want your job to be too easy.
- OSHA? Tell them to go take a hike!
- For safety, use your hook that is big enough to fall off what you clip it to.
- Don’t do any free weight exercises the day before.
- Avoid storm clouds.
- Don’t look down!
- Don’t eat breakfast. If you were to puke it would land on the guy below you.
Could you do this job? Could you even watch this video? Share in the comments.
If he was smart he would carry a parachute in that pack as well so he can make it back down quicker.
Yeah, if one is crazy enough to climb all the way up there then how uncrazy is it to jump off.
Good Grief!!! I feel dizzy just watching it. I think I have been lower than that in planes!!!
Well I hope your plane landed
Seriously though, I’ve watched it twice and I get a funny feeling doing so.
Okay… I’m not even going to attempt to watch this one, Mel.
I get a bit woozy just reading about ‘climbing’.
*urp*
But from the top you can see 50 miles out. Those would be some awesome moonwalk photos you could take.
Hahaha… I can’t see 5 feet if I’m passed out cold though!
I would have got someone else to climb for me
Well we did get somebody else to climb for you. He’s the man in the video
No thanks, I pass on the video. I have enough problems at half that height. Mind you, I have no trouble at the top of Sears Tower (it is SEARS TOWER – screw that “Willis Building” crap) looking out the windows. I think it’s being sealed inside, no matter how tenuously.
(No, I just stood at it’s edge, on seemingly solid ground, and peered over – that was enough for me!)
My best AND worst encounter with height was Dallas’ Reunion Tower. I was out “seeing the sites” with some guy a friend had foisted me onto, and the woman I was convinced would be my wife (and she did). The other guy was also interested in her, so we were doing the whole macho routine, and the three of us ended up on the open observation deck overlooking Dallas. I only found out about 6 months later, that all 3 of us were scared of heights, but the other guy and I wouldn’t admit it, and my wife-to-be wanted to be with me, so we were all three trying to out-brave each other! You should’ve seen my wife when we got to the viewing deck of the CN tower in Toronto. They have a glass panel in the floor so you could see straight down – my wife spotted it from several feet away, latched onto an upright, and I swear she left finger grooves in the solid steel when I tried to get her to walk out on it!
I don’t care how pretty the girl is, when it comes to heights it ain’t happening. I proudly tell my wife that I am a chicken.
I have heard about this tower in Toronto. I hate heights but I think I might actually step out on this.
Glad you got the girl.
I’m totally showing this to my husband. He’s insanely afraid of heights. There’s a good shot he might pass out just watching this.
I would be right there with your husband, passed out on the floor.
I came back to watch it again. Every time you think he’s gone all the far enough he starts climbing again. Right at the very end I can’t believe he is barely bothering to hang on while he’s attaching his safety rope. Don’t think I would trust that rope, it hardly seems thick enough. Watching it I was literally getting sweaty palms. Amazing
Really crazy stuff. I was looking today at how many deaths there were in the last 10 or so years and I think it was under 15… I think.
I’d die the first day and probably only at 20 feet high!
11. Strap rocket to your back and ignite. Much quicker.
Agreed!