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Stuff that leaves one with sweaty palms…
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Nice. Thanks.
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Yikes!
What you wonder about that photo, is if they got to a point where the "road" was too narrow to even keep the wheel that far on, how would they reverse out! (Yes, I know, very carefully).
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All of those terrify me just looking at them, except the bottom one which looks like the most fun ever.
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The all scare the bejebus out of me except the twister one.
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They didn't even want to go that way. They just had to overtake a cyclist.
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How did he get there? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216200392/in/photostream/)
How he got back part 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216877526/in/photostream/)
How he got back part 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/217713707/in/photostream/)
So very close to a Darwin Award.
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They didn't even want to go that way. They just had to overtake a cyclist.
I was thinking, "Another sat-nav victim."
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(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/HowOnEarth.jpg)
They didn't even want to go that way. They just had to overtake a cyclist.
.. or followed the SATNAV.
/Satnav voice
Now turn right
;D
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I've posted this one before.
http://www.tommarsland.com/images/lighthouse-wave.jpg
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How did he get there? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216200392/in/photostream/)
How he got back part 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216877526/in/photostream/)
How he got back part 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/217713707/in/photostream/)
So very close to a Darwin Award.
That has made me feel ill. I expect he'd think I was a bit soft for worrying about it.
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I've posted this one before.
http://www.tommarsland.com/images/lighthouse-wave.jpg
This is the phare de la Jument, the guy got out thinking that it was a rescue heliciopter when in fact it was the photograph coming in.
La Jument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jument)
It is in Ushant, a beautiful place in a wild way and well preserved because it is relatively tricky to navigate there.
In 1940 when De Gaulle called for people to join the free forces, all the men from Ushant crossed the channel leaving women and children live there on their own. As they were first apparently De gaulle said "I did not know that France was just Ushant".
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All of those terrify me just looking at them, except the bottom one which looks like the most fun ever.
I got pounded into the sea-bed by 3 breakers in a row, once - and couldn't get to the surface for air. The panic that you might not survive another 'cycle of the washing machine' if you can't grab a breath before the fourth wave hits, is NOT fun.
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Twister fun! Surf, um, fun-ish! Hike slope jollity!
Corniche ridge of mere-luck not-deadness TERROR.
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
:o :o :o :o
I was alternately feeling dizzy and sick and my testes have retracted rather a long way. I'm still swallowing to try to get them to return to their rightful place1.
I had to stop watching when he reached the naked antenna.
1 Sorry if that is either TMI or too gender specific.
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It is in Ushant, a beautiful place in a wild way and well preserved because it is relatively tricky to navigate there.
In 1940 when De Gaulle called for people to join the free forces, all the men from Ushant crossed the channel leaving women and children live there on their own. As they were first apparently De gaulle said "I did not know that France was just Ushant".
<Sings>From Ushant to Scilly is 35 miles</sings>
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It is in Ushant, a beautiful place in a wild way and well preserved because it is relatively tricky to navigate there.
In 1940 when De Gaulle called for people to join the free forces, all the men from Ushant crossed the channel leaving women and children live there on their own. As they were first apparently De gaulle said "I did not know that France was just Ushant".
<Sings>From Ushant to Scilly is 35 milesleagues</sings>
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Thank you. :-[
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"Nother one. Where did the scaffolding go!?
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That bridge reminded me of this one, which is part of the Caminito del Rey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_del_Rey). Watching the video, I'm just gobsmacked that anyone could walk that route, let alone videoing it whilst they walk!
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/CaminitoDelReyBridge.jpg)
Click for YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrN6PzhiyWo)
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All of those terrify me just looking at them, except the bottom one which looks like the most fun ever.
I got pounded into the sea-bed by 3 breakers in a row, once - and couldn't get to the surface for air. The panic that you might not survive another 'cycle of the washing machine' if you can't grab a breath before the fourth wave hits, is NOT fun.
I'm sure you're right, but if I had to pick one of those photos to be my method of death, it'd be that one because at least it would be fun for a while. ;D
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That bridge reminded me of this one, which is part of the Caminito del Rey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_del_Rey). Watching the video, I'm just gobsmacked that anyone could walk that route, let alone videoing it whilst they walk!
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/CaminitoDelReyBridge.jpg)
Click for YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrN6PzhiyWo)
I'd be on my hands and knees most of the way round that.
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It looks scary but ok - until they get to the bits where the concrete has crumbled. then you know that the whole path could potentially go with the next footstep.
:hand:
I'd like to know how it was built. Quite a feat of construction.
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Some of the history of it is on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminito_del_Rey).
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Missed this before. I've walked down a via ferrata in the Pyrenees, alone, at the end of quite a hot day. Not too bad if you're careful - and I'm not keen on the very exposed climbs in today's pictures.
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I've been in similar situations to many of the climbing/mountaineering shots...
It's never comfortable but always exciting. Quite often I regretted going there until the next day when we told others about how tough it was :)
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Well, at least she's got sensible boots on:
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Well, at least she's got sensible boots on:
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Yosemite?
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No, it's not Guess the place you daft bugger.
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Well, at least she's got sensible boots on:
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Yosemite?
I take it you would?
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Well, at least she's got sensible boots on:
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Yosemite?
I take it you would?
I very well (Yose)mite. ;D
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Ok, this is a video but you can't help admire this guy's fearlessness as well as fitness.
Youtube - Ueli Steck Eiger climb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-dPjDYVKUY&feature=youtu.be)
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Well, at least she's got sensible boots on:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Sensibleboots.jpg)
Yosemite?
I take it you would?
yesemite
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Ok, this is a video but you can't help admire this guy's fearlessness as well as fitness.
Youtube - Ueli Steck Eiger climb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-dPjDYVKUY&feature=youtu.be)
Thank you very much for that Cyclers. I could happily watch from a distance, but once the close camera angle kicked in, so did the sweaty palms in record time! Must be bonkers.
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If we can do videos:
Aconcagua Speed Flying on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/1765056)
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How did he get there? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216200392/in/photostream/)
How he got back part 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216877526/in/photostream/)
How he got back part 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/217713707/in/photostream/)
So very close to a Darwin Award.
Although maybe not quite as close as it looks
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp (http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp)
Dave
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Sweaty palm time:
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Oh my Lord, that's gonna hurt…
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As usual, you post a photo with a pipe in it, I see! :D
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Hey-hey! Boom-boom!
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Looks like Norway but not juvdalsflyet (by Geiranger) or Prekestolen (on Hardangerfjord)
Edit: It is Trolltunga (the trolls tongue) near Kjerag, Norway http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel8275/2180739003/ for the link.
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
That was terrifying. The "ladders" just kept getting less and less substantial.
It appears they were going to fix the flashing light on top :o
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Thank you for that Nmcagafdnn-ers. This has been posted before and seen by many. I have to say, even watching 30 seconds into the video I had to stop. Sweaty palms …again! And I know worse is to come! I can't imagine for 1 minute that the tower remains perfectly still.
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That mast climbing one!
Sorry but I had to turn it off.
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One of my other pastimes: surveying abandoned metal mines.
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The hole is about 40 feet deep. The difficult part was putting in the steel spikes for the safety line.
(How do I post a decent-sized image?)
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Cliffs of Moher. 600 ft above the sea.
(http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/http-inlinethumb63.webshots.com-42430-2320113150104181437S600x600Q85.jpg)
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-terrifying-mountain-biking-trail-on-earth/8975?image=4
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
I forgot to go back and look at this one at the time, as it was blocked at work, but I have now... However much they pay that guy, its not enough. Not even if you paid me £10million, I just could not do it. I feel slightly sick, and I looked away a few times... my heart rate is not healthy right now, and I need a drink.
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I've just watched several of the videos on that site, and learned random things about knots and RF engineering rather than going to bed.
Oops.
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
I forgot to go back and look at this one at the time, as it was blocked at work, but I have now... However much they pay that guy, its not enough. Not even if you paid me £10million, I just could not do it. I feel slightly sick, and I looked away a few times... my heart rate is not healthy right now, and I need a drink.
Wombat, that is staggering. I found myself thinking, "Please let him be at the top now!". It's the act of faith the gets me as much as the height. I'd be thinking, "Am I going to grasp a Monday-morning spike and have it come away in my hand?" or "What if there's a peregrine falcon waiting to put my eye out over the next ledge?". That's assuming I got above thirty feet, which I wouldn't.
Also, why were they protecting the second guy's anonymity? Was it a flash-climb? Most people would be watching through their fingers anyway!
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
I forgot to go back and look at this one at the time, as it was blocked at work, but I have now... However much they pay that guy, its not enough. Not even if you paid me £10million, I just could not do it. I feel slightly sick, and I looked away a few times... my heart rate is not healthy right now, and I need a drink.
Wombat, that is staggering. I found myself thinking, "Please let him be at the top now!". It's the act of faith the gets me as much as the height. I'd be thinking, "Am I going to grasp a Monday-morning spike and have it come away in my hand?" or "What if there's a peregrine falcon waiting to put my eye out over the next ledge?". That's assuming I got above thirty feet, which I wouldn't.
Also, why were they protecting the second guy's anonymity? Was it a flash-climb? Most people would be watching through their fingers anyway!
No, they were engineers, however it was said that they feared for their jobs should their identities be revealed because they were not allowed to film it.
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Worried about their jobs? You mean they could easily be replaced?!
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Oddly enough, there are loads of people who would like to do that sort of work. Mostly from rock climbing community.
Once you are working more than a few hundred feet up, you are dead if you fall.
Not sure I'd go for the no harness thing, myself (not that I have a head for heights).
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The reason why he doesn't use lanyards while climbing the mast is because of the time involved: at each step he'd have to move one or both of the lanyards. This would mean taking four times as long getting to the top and arriving there four times as tired, which would have its own safety implications. The only way the climber is going to fall is if he gets tired and loses concentration, so what he's doing is a reasonable trade-off.
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The reason why he doesn't use lanyards while climbing the mast is because of the time involved: at each step he'd have to move one or both of the lanyards. This would mean taking four times as long getting to the top and arriving there four times as tired, which would have its own safety implications. The only way the climber is going to fall is if he gets tired and loses concentration, so what he's doing is a reasonable trade-off.
Yes but they could install vertical cables to which he could clip his life line with some sort of fall arrester carabiner. That could even be used to suppoert the tool bag. With a bit of ingenuosity there is often a workable solution to these kind of issues.
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Yes but they could install vertical cables to which he could clip his life line with some sort of fall arrester carabiner. That could even be used to suppoert the tool bag. With a bit of ingenuosity there is often a workable solution to these kind of issues.
You could now, but most of these structures have been around a long time, so such mods would be time consuming and expensive to install. Only very occasionally is this sort of access needed, so as has been said, it's probably considered a reasonable compromise between speed and safety.
Oddly enough, with these sort of supposedly dangerous environments, the overall level of safety is often better than with more safety features added. When you're doing something which is fundamentally dangerous like this, people are very careful, and this extends into elements not directly involved with what appears to be the dangerous stuff. When live working on high-tension cables became more common (workmen wearing Faraday suits and so forth), they found that the overall level of accidents in this workplace dropped, because they became more careful about everything they did, not just the HT related stuff.
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When I was last in hospital being shunted between cardiac & neurology,approx 10 years ago, I also spent some time on an orthopedic ward where I was adjacent to a bloke who had fell from a great height whilst working on a telecomms mast.
He had broken both arms & legs,ribs,had skull fracture & spinal damage.He was in for a long long long spell while they rebuilt him.
He was the most upbeat & positive chap I've ever met.He really did have that glad-to-be-alive attitude.
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You could now, but most of these structures have been around a long time, so such mods would be time consuming and expensive to install.
It depends how much you value people lifes and anyway avoiding one fall is probably enough to justify the cost of fitting cables. H&S is a fine balance to find between prohibiting everything and seeing people loose their lives. Considering the cost of a mast like this, I don't think that a cable is an unreasonable expectation.
Even if you look at it from a pure business perspective, loosing people is more expensive than being on the cautious side. I was working for a company which lost an employee who was working in a (slightly?) questionable manner and it costed them dear in term of PI and hassle from HSE. I wouldn't like to be in front of a judge explaining why the company decided that it was OK to work without fall arrest. The fact that they aren't allowed to film tells a lot about their managers mindset.
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Pan, you are assuming that these people work for a large organisation.
They don't.
The 'no filming' bit was because they are contractors and were worried they would lose work if potential customers thought they were pratting about with cameras up the masts.
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It depends how much you value people lifes ...
You always have to value life at some arbitrary value. In this sort of scenario, it's potentially what it would cost you to rectify things at speed, and pay for a court case, and potential fine, in the case of a death, which could be a quite substantial amount of money.
(I think a fatality in a UK road incident is estimated to costs an average of around a million pounds, I would expect a higher figure for a fatality in this sort of case, largely because of it's relative unusualness).
Ultimately you always have to make some sort of judgement call on what is an adequate degree of safety. I think with this case most of us would consider that climbing that sort of structure with no sort of fall arresting mechanism whatsoever is beyond that point, but I presume the gentleman in question didn't.
As I recall, and it was some time ago I looked this up, he was (is?) an independent contractor, so presumably working for the company that manages the mast, and left as being responsible for his own safety. Now, strictly speaking in this sort of case, you can't say that it was entirely up to him to use an appropriate level of safety, and I'm pretty sure any court would find the management company at least partially liable in this case of a serious injury (or more likely fatality), regardless of the fact that the chap was working independently of their own management structures.
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Give him a wire for the job and then let him kill himself on the way home on the motorway.
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I didn't find it that bad. There are lots of things to hold onto and I assume they don't do it if it's in the least bit windy. If you climb a biggish tree you're still likely to die if you fall off, and that has slippy branches which are definitely not designed with climbing in mind, and no option to hook yourself on for a breather.
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I didn't find it that bad. There are lots of things to hold onto and I assume they don't do it if it's in the least bit windy. If you climb a biggish tree you're still likely to die if you fall off, and that has slippy branches which are definitely not designed with climbing in mind, and no option to hook yourself on for a breather.
Roger, I think I'd find it harder than a tree. I agree that after a certain height you are going to die anyway if you fall, but you have so much longer for this to be the case on a massive climb. These chaps were in deadly danger for a LONG time.
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To be fair, Peter, we are all in deadly danger for 100% of our lives.
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JD, some deadly dangers are deadlier than others, as I know you know. Working out the degrees is why actuaries are so well paid!
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Yeah, I know. But in my case no one would have thought of the deadly danger and the actuaries would have been wrong. On balance (apart from my fear of heights ;D ) I'd have been better off up that tower without a cable. My crash was going to happen, it was just a case of when...
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These chaps were in deadly danger for a LONG time.
I take it you didn't listen to the audio?
Elevator to 1600 feet. Free climb for remaining 176ft.
They took a lot of breaks - presumably that's a professional thing rather than reflecting how quickly they tired.
The bit that really freaked me was when the first chap stood on the top - then let go with both hands while he untangled his clip-in strap.
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Yeah, I know. But in my case no one would have thought of the deadly danger and the actuaries would have been wrong. On balance (apart from my fear of heights ;D ) I'd have been better off up that tower without a cable. My crash was going to happen, it was just a case of when...
Not really, safety is a case of attitude more than anything else and some people/organisations will have fall arrest provisions/bolts tightened others won't. Many trains will roll on a poorly secured rail, many technicians will get to the top of a transmission mast without proper fall arrest but if you think that trains shouldn't derail and people shouldn't fall from height, you need to have the right attitude as you can be sure that at some point murphy law will apply if you don't.
In a fisherman village close to St Malo there is a shrine that was built late 19th century to thank the virgin Mary for bringing back home everybody from Newfoundland at the end of the fishing season. So basically, the expectation was that men would be lost. At the time skippers would think that it was a good economy to minimise the number of maps brought onboard, dories would be sent out on a foggy day, meanwhile ocean liners were crossing the fishing zone full steam ahead with no visibility and eventually men would be lost at sea. When the inevitable accident was eventually happening, bad luck was invoked. Nowadays we have higher safety expectations and serioulsy I don't think that the owner of this transmission mast has a much better attitude than armators of fishing boats had a century ago.
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The systems would need to be retrofitted.
Your presumption is that fall arrest installations (eg cables) would survive in a workable condition, the risks of inspection and maintenance would be lower than the risk of not having any such system for the very few times a technician needs to go up there.
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Niagara Falls tightrope walk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/jun/16/niagara-falls-tightrope-walk-pictures#/?picture=391719577&index=6)
Nik Wallenda. Without too much trouble you can find a video of his great-grandfather falling to his death.
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Interestingly, he was forced to wear a safety harness on that crossing, by ABC, who had paid for a fair amount of the setup. Presumably they thought having someone die live on air would be bad coverage (although it does occur to me that the possibility would probably have increased their viewing figures).
He appears to have had continuous wireless comms during the event, and it looks like there's a remotely controlled camera on a parallel wire, in some of the photos. That's slightly more technically advanced coverage than I suspect was ever done in the past, when people previously attempted to cross.
Apparently the authorities have said that they won't allow this sort of event more often than once every twenty years, so don't hold you breath waiting for someone else to attempt it!
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The systems would need to be retrofitted.
Your presumption is that fall arrest installations (eg cables) would survive in a workable condition, the risks of inspection and maintenance would be lower than the risk of not having any such system for the very few times a technician needs to go up there.
That's a bit academic, if the risk of inspection is higher than the risk of climbing with no fall arrest, something is wrong. IRL you just make sure that anything you do is as safe as reasonably possible, inspections can be made by people climbing.
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(http://img.new.livestream.com/events/0000000000007045/20c1d53e-0635-49a5-9ff7-7239874a500d_640x425.jpg)
Take a deep breath and hold tight!
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The systems would need to be retrofitted.
Your presumption is that fall arrest installations (eg cables) would survive in a workable condition, the risks of inspection and maintenance would be lower than the risk of not having any such system for the very few times a technician needs to go up there.
That's a bit academic, if the risk of inspection is higher than the risk of climbing with no fall arrest, something is wrong. IRL you just make sure that anything you do is as safe as reasonably possible, inspections can be made by people climbing.
People tend not to climb up these things without very good reason. They have to switch the transmitters off first (the radiated power levels are hazardous up close and personal), and that's something you tend to avoid doing during the daytime for prolonged periods if at all possible.
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People tend not to climb up these things without very good reason. They have to switch the transmitters off first (the radiated power levels are hazardous up close and personal), and that's something you tend to avoid doing during the daytime for prolonged periods if at all possible.
And deprive the masses of Jeremy Kyle? Now that would be risky.
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Exactly. It'd be zompocalypse lite faster than you can say "Peter Levy".
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Missed this before. I've walked down a via ferrata in the Pyrenees, alone, at the end of quite a hot day. Not too bad if you're careful - and I'm not keen on the very exposed climbs in today's pictures.
Found a photo of this earlier. I came down this valley as I'd run out of water after a long, hot, solo ridge walk. Looking at the map I reckon there was at least 4km of these little metal walk ways with a single rope along and crossing the gorge before I actually got to the water - and to firm enough ground to take a photo.
(http://blog.a-dan.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pyrenees-viaferrata-203x300.jpg) (http://blog.a-dan.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pyrenees-viaferrata.jpg)
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Yes but they could install vertical cables to which he could clip his life line with some sort of fall arrester carabiner. That could even be used to suppoert the tool bag. With a bit of ingenuosity there is often a workable solution to these kind of issues.
You could now, but most of these structures have been around a long time, so such mods would be time consuming and expensive to install. Only very occasionally is this sort of access needed, so as has been said, it's probably considered a reasonable compromise between speed and safety.
Oddly enough, with these sort of supposedly dangerous environments, the overall level of safety is often better than with more safety features added. When you're doing something which is fundamentally dangerous like this, people are very careful, and this extends into elements not directly involved with what appears to be the dangerous stuff.
Same thoughts here. It seems lazy not to incorporate another layer of safety that is quick and convenient. Redundant safety systems are a good practise where lives are at risk - so why not do it here? An auto belay comes to my mind, or a wire running parallel to the ladders combined with Self Belaying Device. But hey, that's their life.
Also from the perspective of a rock climber, they are most certainly not free climbing. One might classify it as 'free solo aid climbing' ...
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What amuses me about Excalibur, is that whilst there are mounting points for safety ropes at the top, as far as I can see, the only way you can get there, to attach them, is to climb up the outside!
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Crikey! :o
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Nothing natural to climb except trees for hundreds of km in any direction. You can see the landscape.
Groningen is in the NE Netherlands, which technically is not Holland - that's the bit where Amsterdam & Rotterdam are. It's in the province of Groningen. ;D
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Groningen or Freisland? I thought it was Freisland.
TimO, you wouldn't climb that hanging off a safety rope attached to the top, you'd climb it like a (bolted) cliff face, clipping in on the way up. If you fall off, you only fall twice as far as the height above the last clipping point.
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So that's ok, then! I was in Groningen for a gig years ago. They seemed to be able to build properly, then.
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I was being a little facetious. I imagine there's a lot of points to attach protection, although it's hard to see in the images I've looked at. You wouldn't want to top rope the entire route, if nothing else you'd need a long rope to do it!
It looks like there are different coloured routes, distinguished by colouring the holds, which is quite neat.
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I was being a little facetious. I imagine there's a lot of points to attach protection, although it's hard to see in the images I've looked at. You wouldn't want to top rope the entire route, if nothing else you'd need a long rope to do it!
Not that long.
I had to dig a bit to find info, but it turns out the photos are really deceptive. The tower is only 37m high. So you could do it with a standard 45m rope and someone belaying from the top (probably designed with that in mind). I've done (a very long time ago) routes in the lakes that were 2.5pitches, so they'd dwarf the tower.
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So that's ok, then! I was in Groningen for a gig years ago. They seemed to be able to build properly, then.
I was being a little facetious. I imagine there's a lot of points to attach protection, although it's hard to see in the images I've looked at. You wouldn't want to top rope the entire route, if nothing else you'd need a long rope to do it!
It looks like there are different coloured routes, distinguished by colouring the holds, which is quite neat.
So was I - I only meant it didn't seem very straight! I know next to nothing about climbing, though I did a bit at Bosigran for my DofE a long time ago. Enough though, to be mightily impressed by this stuff!
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I had to dig a bit to find info, but it turns out the photos are really deceptive. ...
It's a bit like indoor ski slopes. When you're at the top, they look quite a long way down, but when you actually use them, you're at the bottom in only a short time (and then have to get back up to the top again...).
Nature is far better at producing these large structure, ie mountains, than we can ever be!
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Video, not photo, but sent to me yesterday:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
(Comms engineer with headcam climbs comms tower with no safety harness. There doesn't appear to be an emoticon here for ring-clenching terror).
:o :o :o :o
I was alternately feeling dizzy and sick and my testes have retracted rather a long way. I'm still swallowing to try to get them to return to their rightful place1.
I had to stop watching when he reached the naked antenna.
1 Sorry if that is either TMI or too gender specific.
Ditto! I think I can honestly say you couldn't pay me enough to do that. That takes a very special person.
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Is that second photo real? I've seen films of people going over waterfalls, but never anything even half that height.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BnHVC5TQM&feature=fvwp
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Or a lot longer than a million years. If you don't like heights, look away now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70DLM8Az_8&feature=player_detailpage
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Wow! Well I could certainly never begin to do anything remotely like that, but it was fascinating to watch.
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Wow. What a fascinating piece of film - thanks cliff.
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I first saw that film a couple of years ago, but the overhang sequences give me damp hands every time.
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It's the sort of thing whereby you have to see it to believe that it's possible: & she makes it look straightforward :o
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I've seen that footage before, and it's the fairly casual way she hangs down from the overhangs, with a fall that would clearly kill her (even though many smaller ones likely would as well), which is what makes you nervous. You need a massive amount of self confidence to do that sort of thing. The jazz witch doctor is a little amusing though. :)
That film was made some time ago, she was born in 1960, so is into her early fifties now. According to Wikipedia, she cut down on Solo climbs, is married now, and has a 16 year old son.
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Her hair style would suggest early 1980s :D which would tally with her apparent age in the film if she was born in 1960.
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DOES HE MAKE IT LOL
(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/419149_10151304564760319_1636546489_n.jpg)
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My Hero! Fred Dibnah. All worth watching if you are interested in seeing someone really earn a living.
No safety ropes, ciggy in the mouth and a couple of pints for lunch. What could possibly go wrong?
I think he's a legend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezX_o0H5FuE&feature=relmfu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezX_o0H5FuE&feature=relmfu)
And don't forget...those ladders and platforms didn't attach themselves to the chimney, someone had to put them there.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-a27xwcLfU&feature=relmfu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-a27xwcLfU&feature=relmfu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc&feature=relmfu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc&feature=relmfu)
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Cor!! Health and Safety gone......well, just gone, really :D
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My Hero! Fred Dibnah. All worth watching if you are interested in seeing someone really earn a living.
No safety ropes, ciggy in the mouth and a couple of pints for lunch. What could possibly go wrong?
I think he's a legend.
He was amazing wasn't he? I think it's the bold that contributed to his demise. So, don't smoke or drink without a safety harness.
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My Hero! Fred Dibnah. All worth watching if you are interested in seeing someone really earn a living.
No safety ropes, ciggy in the mouth and a couple of pints for lunch. What could possibly go wrong?
I think he's a legend.
He was amazing wasn't he? I think it's the bold that contributed to his demise. So, don't smoke or drink without a safety harness.
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He makes it sound quite an appealing job. Standing in the sunshine, enjoying an amazing view and throwing bricks around. Especially when he says he does the job because he's basically lazy! But then I remember how I'd feel climbing that swaying ladder.
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Or a lot longer than a million years. If you don't like heights, look away now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70DLM8Az_8&feature=player_detailpage
Without even opening the link, I know what it is, but then I was a climber. I would offer this: the first scene, on SLATE, is incredible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOz5VKMp3CY
Here's the whole route
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLyF8zcP674&feature=related
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I knew Johnny. But I never quite believed he could really exist.
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I've done the tiniest bit of climbing. It gave me the willies big time. These blokes ^^^ and all those like them (including the girls) are completely insane in my book. But good luck to them - they probably need it.
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Those 'tents' are called bat hammocks.
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Those 'tents' are called bat hammocks.
Lunatics (in my view).
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I think they are called bat hammocks because you have to be clear batshit crazy to actually sleep in one.
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Sleep?!!? You think you could sleep in one? :o :o
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Big hint: when walking near the feet of 'big walls' such as El Cap in Yosemite, be careful where you tread. People take days on some of those climbs...
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Closer shots show how that's an entirely artificial climb up a dam.
(http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110511/640/extreme_rock_climbing_and_mountaineering_640_high_03.jpg)
Even taking some of the photographs looks pretty hairy!
(http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110511/640/extreme_rock_climbing_and_mountaineering_640_12.jpg)
More here (http://izismile.com/2011/05/11/extreme_rock_climbing_and_mountaineering_16_pics.html).
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What road is that in the background?
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Is it trollstigen?
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Another sweaty palms moment:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/just-hanging-out_zps0fc66f49.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/just-hanging-out_zps0fc66f49.jpg.html)
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If he carries on behaving like that he needn't bother with a pension or life insurance. Think of the money he'll save ...
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I find it hard to watch this one..see if you can watch it without getting a bit "nervy" for him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbwZQ-QnMY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbwZQ-QnMY)
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That is terrifiying to watch! I'd never heard of Dan Osman before, so I Googled him. I was not in the least surprised to find out he is now dead.
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I found that one no problem to watch, probably because he makes it look so easy, whereas Riggers's photo of the bloke hanging off the ledge does make me a bit queasy.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the photo Riggers posted is "fake" in the sense that there is actually solid ground a few feet beneath the guy that is cut out of the shot. Might not be of course...
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I think there probably is. You can see some grass and stuff in the bottom left corner.
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That what I thought too, when you see the 'greenery' in the bottom-left of the pic, and that it might not actually be completely-mind-boggling-"death-please-take-me"-stupid, but it stills gives me the heeby-jeebies.
I couldn't watch the free-climber video after about 20 seconds. Sweaty palms.
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No way Ho Zay
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Bikeamprope_zps8ac58821.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Bikeamprope_zps8ac58821.jpg.html)
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In a similar vein, this may be fun ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp36jUxQXQY
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Only sissies use bungy cords :demon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYtFwOnHFQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYtFwOnHFQ)
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No way Ho Zay
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Bikeamprope_zps8ac58821.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Bikeamprope_zps8ac58821.jpg.html)
Avon Gorge is looking a bit deeper than normal. Tide must be out.
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Norway's Trollunga (http://abduzeedo.com/photographic-interpretations-norways-trolltunga)
Scroll down the page. Don't think I'd be doing what they're doing. I'd feel a strong compulsion to throw myself off.
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Ooop. I think I could stand on it though I'd probably feel happier lying down, Svetlana-style. But sitting with my feet dangling over the edge? No way.
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No Sirree Bob. God knows how you'd get down from there!!
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Pathwaytohell_zpsd3b8ca47.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Pathwaytohell_zpsd3b8ca47.jpg.html)
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FFS. Is it possible to block a thread on this forum? I keep dipping in whenever it gets added to - and instantly regretting it.
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3911/15168695317_8769434580_o.jpg)
The Skycoaster at Royal Gorge Park, Colorado.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2950/15168643818_014d7978b1_o.jpg)
Royal Gorge Bridge
Crossing the bridge was scary enough for me; the Skycoaster puts at least another 150' between you and the Arkansas River for a 1200' drop. I witnessed an eighty year old grandmother on the Skycoaster :o
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Sorry to non-facebook forummers, this is a 46 second video on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204174344696770) that I don't know how to embed here. It is a walk along a snowy summit of the Matterhorn.
I could only watch a few seconds of that Roaders, before my palms started sweating. That was enough thrill for me. I know I couldn't do that, even on my hands and knees!!!!! Thank God it wasn't windy. Bonkers.
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Both Fatbloke and I have been almost there. As in, on the shoulder. Shit.
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Sorry to non-facebook forummers, this is a 46 second video on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204174344696770) that I don't know how to embed here. It is a walk along a snowy summit of the Matterhorn.
I could only watch a few seconds of that Roaders, before my palms started sweating. That was enough thrill for me. I know I couldn't do that, even on my hands and knees!!!!! Thank God it wasn't windy. Bonkers.
windy is bonkers, yes.
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Unusually, this is on BBC iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04kntlk/danny-macaskill-riding-the-ridge), Danny MacAskill cycling along the Cuillins ridge. The entire programme isn't under this category, but definitely a few of the cuts made me very nervous! The program ends with the final film, which I presume is also on YouTube.
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It looks like El Caminito del Rey (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=42991.msg862817#msg862817) will no longer count in this thread. They've rebuilt it, and it's due to be reopened tomorrow. The new path is obviously a mixture of rebuilding the old one, and in places entirely replacing it with a new path, above the old one, which you can see below it in this video.
Still enough to make you nervous, but no longer in the "Never in a million years" category. ;D
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/ElCaminitoDelRey.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY5alvXix0I)
Click image for YouTube video
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https://youtu.be/DeItSaP_bUY
:o
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Utter maniac!
Course, once you've done Clent Hill, that's nothing...
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;D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
Can't wait till the scallies start trying this at Speke.... (or Liverpool John Lennon as its now known)
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They are the RAF's new interceptors after the next military spending review.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
Can't wait till the scallies start trying this at Speke.... (or Liverpool John Lennon as its now known)
Crimminy, I assumed that was CGI at first. That A380 must have been flying just above stall speed.
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That looks great fun! Though perhaps not quite so close to another aircraft...
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Driving trucks, laden down with granite stones, down from a quarry. Rather them than me.
Watch from 6 minutes in I say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOHC8KnmjU
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Driving trucks, laden down with granite stones, down from a quarry. Rather them than me.
Watch from 6 minutes in I say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naOHC8KnmjU
balls of, um, granite.
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Ahem. Marble. Marbles.
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Have the Giro route planners seen this yet?
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Very Wages of Fear.
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Only goats, not people, but they still made me feel nervous !
(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/GoatsItalianDam.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc)
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Episode 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc)
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No way Ho Zay
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/Riggers_1956/Bikeamprope_zps8ac58821.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Riggers_1956/media/Bikeamprope_zps8ac58821.jpg.html)
I've done that, without the bike. I learnt to jumar on the climb up the rope.
Mind you he has a tight 50m rope, we tied two together to make 75m.
And I once shared the last of the chilli in Pete's eats with Jonny Dawes.
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https://youtu.be/zUIRrTxnwcA (https://youtu.be/zUIRrTxnwcA)
will do for me, particularly when large lizards are rappelling down the wall just a few score feet away
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Well that is an idea ...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/29/daredevil-to-attempt-jumping-out-plane-at-25000-feet-without-parachute.html
he landing target, which has been described as similar to a fishing trawler net, has been tested repeatedly using dummies.
One of those 200-pound (91-kilogram) dummies didn't bounce out. It crashed right through.
"That was not a good thing to see," recalled Jimmy Smith, the veteran Hollywood public relations man who, with his partner Bobby Ware, sold Fox on the idea of having someone skydive without a parachute.
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Well that is an idea ...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/29/daredevil-to-attempt-jumping-out-plane-at-25000-feet-without-parachute.html
I can sort of see why he's doing it with no parachute, but on the other hand I can see why wearing one would be a very good idea.
If something goes wrong, and he can't get to the net, he's stuffed, utterly.
Proving you can do it, with no backup is really just being very macho, because doing it with an emergency parachute, and not using it, is ultimately the same as doing it without that spare, it's just showing that you have more nerve, but not particularly more sense.
I doubt someone with a career such as he has can actually get life insurance, and he's married with a child. If he dies in the process, his wife and son have to live with that. I presume his wife accepts him doing it, since she's jumped over 2000 times herself, but the reality of an accident is likely to be quiet different, and would have to be lived with, irreversibly.
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Well he did it, and didn't seem to hit that close to the centre of the net ! :o
BBC Website : US skydiver jumps without parachute into net from 25,000ft (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36935087)
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Now, of course, he will want to do to again, but from higher. This isn't going to end well.
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And without a net too, I bet.
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Now, of course, he will want to do to again, but from higher. This isn't going to end well.
We know a song about that...
http://bussongs.com/songs/he-jumped-from-40-thousand-feet.php
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like a blob of strawberry jam..
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4,600-Feet High Glass Walkway Opens On China Mountainside (http://the-daily.buzz/glass-walkway-china-mountainside/)
(http://2s3ygp2ortkl67oy1kogvig4.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-12.16.56-PM-768x580.png)
I think I'd actually give it a go.
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4,600-Feet High Glass Walkway Opens On China Mountainside (http://the-daily.buzz/glass-walkway-china-mountainside/)
(http://2s3ygp2ortkl67oy1kogvig4.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-12.16.56-PM-768x580.png)
I think I'd actually give it a go.
One I'll happily give a miss.
Not coming on one your rides. M'kay?
ETA : Having seen it. F*ck that!
Don't expect me anytime soon.
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I think I'd actually give it a go.
Not. A. Chance. I did make it over the Royal Gorge Bridge - just - and that's only 950-1050' depending on who you believe and has a nominally-opaque floor and didn't fall down when I watched a series of three ton pickup trucks drive over it. I even got a bit twitchy on the bridge just downstream from the Hoover Dam, which has a dual cabbageway over it.
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Quite.
Andrij, I think you are being deliberately provocative.
That is all.
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Who knows? If I ever did make it there, I could end up taking one look and soiling myself, without even setting one foot upon the thing. If I ever visit China and go to Tianmen Mountain I'll let you know how I get on.
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Isn't that shared use?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc
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Eeeek.
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https://www.facebook.com/videoholic0/videos/478612045664853/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
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https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/blog/i-ate-the-elephant-one-bite-at-a-time/
maybe if the tires were pneumatic
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https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/blog/i-ate-the-elephant-one-bite-at-a-time/
maybe if the tires were pneumatic
And there I was considering putting it on the "I saw this and thought of you (/lot)" thread"
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Well that is an idea ...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/29/daredevil-to-attempt-jumping-out-plane-at-25000-feet-without-parachute.html
I can sort of see why he's doing it with no parachute, but on the other hand I can see why wearing one would be a very good idea.
If something goes wrong, and he can't get to the net, he's stuffed, utterly.
Proving you can do it, with no backup is really just being very macho, because doing it with an emergency parachute, and not using it, is ultimately the same as doing it without that spare, it's just showing that you have more nerve, but not particularly more sense.
I doubt someone with a career such as he has can actually get life insurance, and he's married with a child. If he dies in the process, his wife and son have to live with that. I presume his wife accepts him doing it, since she's jumped over 2000 times herself, but the reality of an accident is likely to be quiet different, and would have to be lived with, irreversibly.
It's about jeopardy.
When I see a High-Wire act, walking across a canyon, attached via a safety line, I don't feel any excitement. There's no jeopardy, just skill. It's impressive in its own right but I bet the "mental game" plays a bigger part than the ability to perform on a high-wire, when the stakes are so great.
I'll be honest, going up a ladder to my guttering is more of a mental game than going up the same ladder to paint my living room window-frame, despite there being the same skills involved.
It's why F1 is so dull and why the Isle of Man TT isn't.
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I wish you'd put that in spoiler tags :sick:
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What a great looking climb. Some commitment required!
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Don't think it's that committing. Depth of the crack/chimney suggests good placements inside, and it's sandstone so should be nice and rough.
Spoken as a long term gritstone climber, hardest route being a lead of Sundowner at Froggatt which really DOES require commitment!
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https://youtu.be/35D7rpxjeqo - no, thanks
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Wales, eh?
http://www.valthorens.com/en/activities-and-entertainment/winter-activities/the-tyrolienne.644.html
I was looking at that a couple of days ago (not contemplating, I left that to Miss Ham & boyfriend, who ended up not doing it because queues), it starts at almost 3,300m....
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https://youtu.be/35D7rpxjeqo - no, thanks
*looks into organising trip to Wales...*
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It's near Llanberis and runs over some superb climbing areas in the old slate quarries.
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Don't think it's that committing. Depth of the crack/chimney suggests good placements inside, and it's sandstone so should be nice and rough.
Spoken as a long term gritstone climber, hardest route being a lead of Sundowner at Froggatt which really DOES require commitment!
You'd need some big hexs for that crack . . .
But yeah, I agree. Those cracks look nice and snug.
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(http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10F1E/production/_93060496_1stprizewinnercategorysport_adventuremoabbymaxseigal.jpg)
Rock climbing in Moab, Utah, USA.
Dear god. There's not much protection in there.
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Dear god. There's not much protection in there.
The ground and rock look nice and solid and stable, I don't think it will fall on you.
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Dear god. There's not much protection in there.
The ground and rock look nice and solid and stable, I don't think it will fall on you.
I'm talking about him having put any protection in, or not.
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Dear god. There's not much protection in there.
The ground and rock look nice and solid and stable, I don't think it will fall on you.
I'm talking about him having put any protection in, or not.
I guess he (or she) would reach into the back of the chimney and put in one of those fancy modern camming things. Never had much time for them, meself, I was a hex and nut man.
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Dear god. There's not much protection in there.
The ground and rock look nice and solid and stable, I don't think it will fall on you.
I'm talking about him having put any protection in, or not.
I guess he (or she) would reach into the back of the chimney and put in one of those fancy modern camming things. Never had much time for them, meself, I was a hex and nut man.
Yebbut. If you look at the rope dangling in the picture it looks to me that he has no protection in at all.
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Hatler I'm sure that said rope is securely anchored to the rock down below.
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Hatler, I'll zoom in for a better look when I get home.
ETA: Managed it at work. He has gear in about fifteen feet below him (rope changes angle) and possibly just where he is, but I don't really think the latter.
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Phew!! That's a relief!
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I'll invoke this quotation from Mr. Kollbek as I decline to repeat his feat: " it's not for everyone, so I strongly advise inexperienced riders against trying this line " -- even though the cliff is not quite as vertical as the view posted would suggest.
My tires' air pressure doesn't go low enough
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Nor this
https://www.facebook.com/kyle.mears.73/videos/10209796828611873/
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Scared of heights? Look away now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1BgzIZRfT8
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Wonderful!
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https://www.facebook.com/FreeSoloSolo/photos/a.1786777151550915.1073741829.1715525695342728/1908209262741036/?type=3
correction: never in two million years
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^
I looked at that for about 3 seconds before coming off it. Death wish.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38925611
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And it's not done on the smoothest of surfaces either!!
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Have we had these two?
Climbs Europe's tallest chimney, 360m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85lyn17wxo
Spot of wild camping at 280'ish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLlgUT_MyrM
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Have we had these two?
Climbs Europe's tallest chimney, 360m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85lyn17wxo
Who is he and what is he doing with Bob's hair?
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Jianyou figure hill temple, simple chain bridge, 1930, China
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20476402_1611474802260961_4980103851017895337_n.jpg?oh=d74b80c870f8392f0ca19e4dd7f6c189&oe=5A00AF4E)
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ICBA to go and look for the picture but a Farcebok friend just posted a thing about a building in Houston with a glass-bottomed swimming pool hanging out 500' above the street!
Urk!
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Is there not one in Dubai as well?
Apparently one is planned for London. https://www.domain.com.au/news/worlds-first-sky-swimming-pool-will-float-over-london-20150820-gj3as5/
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I see that despite Houston and Dubai, the London one will be the world's first.
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Never mind the swimming pool having a glass bottom, that would give me a glass bottom!
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Best seen though the bottom of a glass.
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The Mechanic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjBCy5kOaY)
About 5 mins onwards...
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I see that despite Houston and Dubai, the London one will be the world's first.
The world's first in London, of course
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Funnily enough, a clip from my 'Cold Feet', being a family walk at the Battle of Britain memorial, Capel le Ferne, between Folkestone and Dover
“There’s a funny story about that, Dad. The Daily Telegraph had a hissy fit a few years ago, ‘why is there no memorial to the Battle of Britain’, and someone mentioned this place, and they harrumphed and said ‘yes, but there should be one in London!’. That’s when Croydon council told them there was one, at the original London airport–in Croydon”
“Does dim byd ar glawr, ac eithrio Llundain” (There is nothing at all in existence…except for London). I understood his bitterness there. Even the people of East Kent felt the capital assumed it was the only part of the country in which anything important or worthwhile happened
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Brumotti has previous here, doesn't he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjIhn5sVKQ
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Brumotti has previous here, doesn't he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjIhn5sVKQ
Most of that I wouldn't even attempt on foot. Might manage on my hands and knees if my life depended on it.
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On the drops as well...
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(http://www.tuttouomini.it/images/paperissimasprint-vittorio-brumotti.jpg)
I suppose the chest tatt will make identifying the body easier....
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Brumotti has previous here, doesn't he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjIhn5sVKQ
I'm amazed he bothers wearing a helmet, if he fell from those heights I can't imagine it would offer any meaningful protection!
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Brumotti has previous here, doesn't he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjIhn5sVKQ
I'm amazed he bothers wearing a helmet, if he fell from those heights I can't imagine it would offer any meaningful protection!
I guess if he slips he's going to be more bothered about stopping going over the edge than avoiding bumping his noggin - so it is one of the situations where wearing a helmet makes sense - low speed impact on rocks.
I felt nauseous watching that video. He must have no nerves whatsoever.
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I hope the chap hasn't gone to the trouble and expense of investing in a pension, I doubt he'll need one.
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What does the pubic tat read, cuando quieres? He's not expecting to get old, then.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIPw7wBXoAASN1h.jpg:large)
https://twitter.com/outsidemagazine/status/901829261883006976
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http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/12/18/man-sets-blindfolded-slackline-walk-record-orig.cnn
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I'm amazed he bothers wearing a helmet, if he fell from those heights I can't imagine it would offer any meaningful protection!
No Go-Pro mounts for hair?
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Which puts me in mind of a story about Syd Watkins, FIA medical supremo. When they mandated the HANS device for Formula 1 he was asked by a journalist if this proven lifesaver might find its way into mass produced road cars.
'Prof' thought about it for a moment and replied that he could see no problem with that. As long as people didn't mind surgery and Kevlar straps permanently attached to the backs of their skulls and shoulder blades...
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I'm still waiting for some enterprising F1 journo to assemble a definitive collection of Sydisms
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Anything done by the late great Fred Dibnah:
No safety harnesses or hard had! Just a pair of overalls, tackety boots, and a flat cap :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezX_o0H5FuE
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A bystander, observing His Fredness' antics atop a chimney, once asked Fred's oppo "Does he ever fall off?"
"Oh aye, he did once. But I caught him."
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Putting the scaffolding up is quite fun too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc
:-\
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Chinese high wire: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-china-42522614/nerves-of-steel-high-up-on-china-s-power-lines
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I think I could manage this one: https://www.facebook.com/thisisinsidertravel/videos/2010506939276465/?hc_ref=ARRObuuxJynsxcoUA0TUFoN08ES8rCO1_RfSki4Pxd5xfFMcut1v0ka0qfymZm5cHdo
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How about SkyCycle (https://youtu.be/jNgF3GIfF1c) in Japan?
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Not that worrying at all. I suggest you google Glen Coe Five Points of Contact...
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How about SkyCycle (https://youtu.be/jNgF3GIfF1c) in Japan?
Waaah! I've looked up at that a few times from the town at the bottom of the hill.
Had. No. Idea.
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Here's a movie for all your sweaty palms : https://gearjunkie.com/mountain-film-australian-chamber-orchestra-us-release
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The movie is pretty good, and not all sweaty palmed thrills. I quite like Mr MacFarlane’s writing too.
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I suppose it is an experience thing. If you are, or have been, a climber, the effect of some of the exposure (long drops/verticality) wears off. On the other hand, the knowledge of what can go wrong doesn't...
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Crewmen of the airship “Graf Zeppelin” repair the hull during a flight over the Atlantic, 1934:
https://twitter.com/at_RIN/status/995355446839054336
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The WWI Zeps used this as well. Bit lonely...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_basket
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Crewmen of the airship “Graf Zeppelin” repair the hull during a flight over the Atlantic, 1934:
https://twitter.com/at_RIN/status/995355446839054336
I wonder if they used crampons...
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I doubt they had much choice with a hole that big.
I think the "hole" off to the lower right in the photo is an access hatch to get on the top. The Hydrogen was in "bags" inside the skin.
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It looks rather jagged to be an access hatch. They don't seem to be paying it much attention though.
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https://www.sde.co.ke/article/2001280477/video-little-girls-laugh-as-they-ride-on-the-back-of-deadly-giant-python (https://www.sde.co.ke/article/2001280477/video-little-girls-laugh-as-they-ride-on-the-back-of-deadly-giant-python)
seems like a rather slow means of transporation
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https://www.facebook.com/visitfonna/videos/1757422170992066/?t=11 (https://www.facebook.com/visitfonna/videos/1757422170992066/?t=11)
not this guy
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/nov/27/novice-left-hanging-after-glider-pilot-fails-to-attach-him-video
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Did anyone watch Free Solo on National Geographic the other week?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/alex-honnold-made-ultimate-climb-el-capitan-without-rope/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh06wlg9RmU
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Thanks for giving me sweaty palms Molers. French lunatics!
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300m up - utterly disintegrating concrete
https://youtu.be/fcczjFRcVcU (https://youtu.be/fcczjFRcVcU)
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I believe that path has been completely rebuilt recently.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpcJEOEvec
http://www.indiabuilding.co.uk
The arcade is beautiful, I often used to stroll through during my lunch break. I'm extremely pissed off that the new tenants (HMRC) intend to stop public access for "security reasons" >:(
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Nice hats!
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I believe that path has been completely rebuilt recently.
Indeed it has been.
Tom Scott - The World's Most Dangerous Path Isn't So Dangerous Any More (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cICu9HtGhQ)
(... and I think there were previous links in this thread to other scary videos of it!)
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I always get that one mixed up with the South American road.
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Quite tame compared with a lot of the stuff here, but nevertheless, impressive parkouring.
Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CD9NHnTH-jF/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again
More: https://www.bristol247.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/amazing-parkour-skills-takes-athlete-down-side-of-multi-storey-car-park/
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You'd never get me doing that because of heights, but I do note he's on a tether.
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https://9gag.com/gag/a9nDLdm?ref=9g.wsa.mw
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The filming of 'Free Solo'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wjmIFlnNo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wjmIFlnNo)
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ym2F-tHdkk&feature=youtu.be
Danny MacAskill - The Slabs :jurek:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m5lPITfMQc
Nope. Nope No way..... even if all I had to do is stand still , that's still a no.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m5lPITfMQc
Nope. Nope No way..... even if all I had to do is stand still , that's still a no.
I'd have dropped one of the signs, for sure.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m5lPITfMQc
Nope. Nope No way..... even if all I had to do is stand still , that's still a no.
Just watching that give me teh fear.
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[Don Logan mode]
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[/Don Logan mode]
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Danny on a wind mill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR4maEf-eCY
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I see no evidence that he got back........!
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
From watching just a few minutes of that, water is issuing from my palms as if they were The Niagra Falls.
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Agggghhhhhh!!!! Hugging myself with teh fear!
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
From watching just a few minutes of that, water is issuing from my palms as if they were The Niagra Falls.
Me too.
How the heck can they bring themselves to trust the stonework?
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
From watching just a few minutes of that, water is issuing from my palms as if they were The Niagra Falls.
Me too.
How the heck can they bring themselves to trust the stonework?
I notice that before he set foot on the first ladder, he gave it a cursory shake.
Or at least it looked that way to me.
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Probably did the standard safety check & sent the apprentice up first....
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
And what to they do when they get there, practise clog dancing?
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
And what to they do when they get there, practise clog dancing?
Lightning conductor maintenance would be my guess.
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
And what to they do when they get there, practise clog dancing?
Lightning conductor maintenance would be my guess.
It’s a bit like , “How many steeple jacks does it take to change a lightbulb?”. Why does it need three of them up there with the last guy mostly just hanging off the metalwork?
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Not that I'm making light of it, but the streetview gives you better perspective than that wide angle headcam, especially of the likely strength at the top, it looks fragile in that video
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https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1530135725777121285
A 2 hour slackline walk.
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quite a slacker
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Crowded at the top.
https://youtu.be/s0PRPbScMa8
And what to they do when they get there, practise clog dancing?
Lightning conductor maintenance would be my guess.
It’s a bit like , “How many steeple jacks does it take to change a lightbulb?”. Why does it need three of them up there with the last guy mostly just hanging off the metalwork?
He must have cold hands.
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https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1548049514245697536 (https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1548049514245697536?s=21&t=q00vQMgJPHg3H_2iQACItg)
I’m pleased to see the chaps riding bikes above a several hundred metre drop are wearing helmets…. :jurek:
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https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1554573788049719297?s=21&t=BHkH9QXz_tUkDXALEJ6njg (https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1554573788049719297?s=21&t=BHkH9QXz_tUkDXALEJ6njg)
ETA it’s a quoted tweet, but I liked Carlton’s comment.
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https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1554573788049719297?s=21&t=BHkH9QXz_tUkDXALEJ6njg (https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1554573788049719297?s=21&t=BHkH9QXz_tUkDXALEJ6njg)
ETA it’s a quoted tweet, but I liked Carlton’s comment.
The motherlode is here https://driftershoots.com/gallery
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Oh my, oh my my.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF5dA5ta5hI
Skiing the Hannenkamm is scary enough, IIRC there are sections up to 80% gradient so in effect you are just falling, I wonder if he bypassed them?