Found this on Brian Enos forums.... I am not afraid of heights... but this is just nuts.

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2010/09/15

Insane.

 

I can take heights but that is over the top, literally. If I could be chained to the mast the entire way, I could take the height....those transitions and free climbing..forget it.

The transitions is what scared the crap out of me.... and I can only begin to think how it is on the way down.

I saw this video about a week ago-- and it gave me the butterflies just watching a small 3x5 video

Only thing that gets me more then heights is... the deep blue sea (which I love as well... eh, long story).

If a lightning storm happens no quick way down... Well one quick way

Wow, that takes your breath away just watching it.

It would take a giant pile of cash to get me up there.

Ben, throw me in a pool or the water any day over 2k feet up free climbing. Water beats gravity.

free climbing?!

Ha, its not water itself. I love water-- spent my first 17 years swimming casually and competitively. Really, everyone was surprised when I didn't enlist to be a squid.

I was free diving at a reef somewhere off the Big Island. Snapping photos, having a good time, etc. By accident, I dropped a cheap watch or something. As I went to go look, I looked down while simultaneously turning backwards-- and I just saw the reef/shelf drop down into... nothing-- that deep blue. I just saw that watch disappear into nothing, and its freaked me out ever since. With that said, there are millions of people who find that same thing absolutely exhilarating, haha, and that's totally cool. Me personally, knowing I know nothing of it, and the fact that most of the world's deep waters are not explored-- well, I'll hold onto my healthy fear of that deep blue

 

Still, heights, crazy, crazy stuff. The thought of jumping out of a plane with training and a chute, plus a backup isn't really that bad. Free climbing with a couple hitches? I'm with Ken.

I was scared just watching. It's like watching a horror film and waiting for the kill.

That is amazing! I once saw a guy doing this in the Hackettstown area. I was impressed.

We routinely climbed the Range control water tower at Dix for a couple years with no safety gear at all. But that is about 150 ft, not 2000. Alos a 250 footer at Ft. Benning, but with gear

pretty cool vid... And you sure as hell wont catch me up their..That is one place i did not play as a child..

I'd think that the scariest job would be giving Rosie O'Donnell her daily sponge bath, but this sure as hell comes in at a close second.

holy crap nothing would get me up there. I was dizzy watching the vid. Thinking of the wind blowing.

Oh hell no!

 

I love SCUBA and will go to any depth they'll let me but i wont set foot on even the first rung of that thing!

While not as scarey as the link Maks posted, still something that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand-up. I have a friend who owns a company that makes metric hydraulic fittings and metric to SAE adapters. He has two major markets - the imported medium duty truck market and carnival rides, many of which are imported.

 

This goes back aways (pre-e-mail) I was at work when he faxed me some photos he had taken. He was a supplier to the manufacturer/installer of the roller coaster at the top of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. He was out walking around on the temporary, timber scaffolding that would become the path for the tracks of the coaster. Just unreal.

 

On a sidenote, they tried to stiff him for $20K. Turns out in Vegas you can place a lein on property for $15 court costs (at least you could then). His lein had to be satisfied before they could open the Stratosphere.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Not so much the fear of height, but free climbing? WTF? lol.. and all those little transitions? Standing on top with no hands? That 30 pound tool bag is no problem, cuz this guy has 10 pound nuts.. haha

No way Jose! I was a lineman for forty years, but you couldn't pay me enough for that job!

How the hell do they even build/erect a tower like that?

How the hell do they even build/erect a tower like that?

 

They build it up as much as they can with a normal crane then attach a crane at the top, winch pieces up, attach 'em, then move the crane up to the newly attached piece. Very scary to watch.

I think i would be ok inside the tower cage. At first I thought Big Deal... Then I watched and watched and saw the free climb. Holy crap... I am going to have a dream about falling off this tower tonight I know it... Unreal... He better get paid better than Tiger Woods or it's not worth it. 10 pound stones is right.

vid is crazy... i was nervous just watching it. i kept saying in my head "clip on already!!!"

I'd think that the scariest job would be giving Rosie O'Donnell her daily sponge bath, but this sure as hell comes in at a close second.

HAHAHA!

 

vid is crazy... i was nervous just watching it. i kept saying in my head "clip on already!!!"

Definitely! I had the butterflies once I saw the red 30lb. bag swinging below him.

 

I've noticed that as I've gotten older, a new fear of heights, which I have never had, seems to be creeping into my subconscious.

Great, THAT'S what I get for my mid-life crisis!

Not so much the fear of height, but free climbing? WTF? lol.. and all those little transitions? Standing on top with no hands? That 30 pound tool bag is no problem, cuz this guy has 10 pound nuts.. haha

 

i think they were in the bag..

i think they were in the bag..

 

no, they hang off his truck!