1700 ft! fuck thats some scary shit imagine climbing another 300ft to the top of this tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVLY-TV_mast , I guess its all the same to them.

Wow worst job ever
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i wonder how tired is he when he finally reach the top

holy fuk! i was getting butterflies just watching that video. I would pass out if i was climbing that. Althought base jumping off the top when he was down would be an awesome way to decend!

i was shitting bricks just watching it

fucking crazy shit

Here's the best version of this video I have come across. My palms were sweating watching it!

holy shit..

Pay me a million dollars to get the job done and I still wouldn't be able to do it. Bricks will be shat about 1/10th of the way up and I'd pass out. Props to these guys

So what does he do if he "suddenly" needs to take a shit... badly. I guess no chilli for lunch eh.

My palms are sweaty from watching this :eek:.

unless he gets lucky, i think the wind would probably smash him straight back into the tower, or atleast make him clip it and suffer some horrible injury

fullscreen, popcorn.:Popcorn om nom

I would LOVE to climb this thing.
I admit though my palms were sweating watching this guy. lol you kinda freeze up when the camera shakes a bit.

Holy shit... I felt like I was going to have an anxiety attack just watching that. :lol A buddy of mine does this for a living, but I didn't realize just how fucking scary it actually was. The amount of respect I have for just how big his balls are has grown substantially. And yes, he does extremely well when it comes to money. As for using a helicopter, they actually do use 'em for some of the shorter towers.

Insane. I could barely watch it to the end. Climbing that shitty little ladder in the wind without being tied to anything? No thanks, buddy. Not for any money in the world.

its the transitions that are scary
holy shits

Man.. free climbing is great and all but what happens when one of the one-sided skinny ass rungs happens to be corroded where it bolts to the pole and just snaps off? Game over. Just like that. It'd make a lot more sense for them to be able to hook a safety line up to the top before they start climbing. Maybe some kind of winching mechanism? It wouldn't be cheap but neither is insuring these guys against death by falling. I bet it'd be comparable.

That video is of a guy doing the climb virtually safety-line free, but they're usually almost always hooked onto the tower unless they're going through one of those awkward transitions. It's not actually as dangerous as the guy in the video made it out to be.

Well yeah what I meant was maybe for these towers where you're forced to go for lengths of time without a safety line because there's just no way to, they should have a small winch at the very top you could bring down to the half-way point where you'd have to free-climb, hook yourself onto it there, and from then on be covered in case something snaps off at the free-climb sections.

Honestly there's no way to tell with those things when it's all exposed to harsh weather like that. It's not like they're using any kind of advanced composite for the skinny one sided rung things - it looks like plain old aluminized steel to me, stainless steel at best =/.

so that's what its like when girls climb on top of my penis...

YOU cant not work that when your tired.. HOLY shit..

i wonder if anyone fell and die doing this??

i must have missed it in the video but where exactly is this tower? i'm sure they can implement some sort of pulley system for safety hooks

and yeah $300/hour pay is still not enough..i'm sure you don't climb towers 4 days a week for 8 hours straight

my dad is 58 yrs old, we were watching this video together at the airport before he left on his trip & long story short he wet his pants after the watching it at the airport thats how scary this video is

as for me, i couldn't finish watch before they enter there free climb zone

$300/h?

WTF is that it?
Are you kidding me?

That is so not worth it.