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I'm sometimes tempted to have a climb up a tower crane to try and beat my fears. My theory is that I could do 10m on night one, 20m on night two... 🙂
As if safety is at the forefront of his thoughts!
If you're willing to take that sort of risk, why on earth not take another?
BASE is pretty safe from that sort of tower, if you know what you're doing.
My testicles involuntarily retracted watching those loonies 😳
I got to the point where he starts to walk along the spar across the top of the chimney, at which point the little voice inside my head started gibbering nonononononononono and I had to stop. I've just eaten my tea, don't want to lose it. 😳
Bugger me.
Bugger me.
It's a nice offer, and you're a fine chap, but no, thanks.
Christ. I think the thing for me (as with most solo climbing) is that you can be the best climber in the world but if what you're holding on to comes away it's game over.
Love that he sent his mate up first though.
That made my balls feel sick. Not the rest of me, just my balls. Which I have not experienced before.
It's a nice offer, and you're a fine chap, but no, thanks.
C'mon now Flashy, it's ok, you can be your real self with me!
Seeing as Fred has been mentioned:
Them Ukrainians! they're bloody nutters!
Half the things they were hanging off looked ready to fall down . . .
Unreal
Here's another 'not Fred' this time using a riskier version of the knock out the base technique
😯 the Alex in Mexico and mental eastern Europeans
Fred would've done it with a fag in his mouth
I'm not taking nothing away from these guys, they've clearly got some stones. But I think a lot of it is mind over matter. When I was a youth, I used to do stuff like this (nothing that high), and I was completely fearless. I'd always think - If you painted a four inch wide stripe on the floor, you'd jump around all day on it without ever falling off, so there should be no difference doing it at height (wind factor excluded). Then at some point in my 20's, I 'became scared'. No idea what happened, would be interested to know. But watching stuff like this these days leaves my palms sweating!
I know exactly the day I went from fearless to scared, I was twenty eight and it was the day I broke my back in a motorbike accident.
I was known as a kid for doing ridicules dares and regularly climbed blocks of flats using the down pipe.
But after my crash I felt fearful if I stood at the foot of a tall building looking up.
It's like my subconscious suddenly became aware of my mortality.
I fricken loved fred dibnah, a man who made a TV series where he drove a steam engine from pub to pub stopping to have a pint in every one, and no one said " fred, that's eight pints Bruv, step away from the traction engine"
But instead watched as he lit a tab before pulling his greasy rag from his pocket. That is the mark of a real man, keeping a greasy rag in your pocket.
Fear is the main factor. Thomas Morgenstern retired from ski jumping recently because of this accident.
He wasn't seriously hurt and a month after won a team silver in Sochi but even with that he's so scared of another crash that he's called it a day.
That chimney demolition is the craziest thing I have seen for some time. 😯
BASE is pretty safe from that sort of tower, if you know what you're doing.
Maybe, but if you don't have the kit or the experience it's a non-starter.
The Ukrainians do it well!
Makes the Romanian look like Mr Sensible. This guy is not going to be dying of old age that's for sure.
I wonder if their blatant lack of risk aversion is linked with their circumstances? I would imagine war can change your perspective on life, death and risk quite considerably.
Anyway serious level of skill involved there. Someone should get him on a bike, I'm sure he'd be up for the RB rampage in no time!
Just what was the guy demolishing the chimney thinking? 😯
Maybe more professional than it looked then. Perhaps his friend climbed it with ropes?
One assumes so, bit harsh if his mate free climbed it, then the chap in the video did it again with a GoPro on and took all the credit!
Love it.
But then I do climb big towers for a living.
Love the redneck demolition company! "She-yit; ah was born on a Sunday!"
Just what was the guy demolishing the chimney thinking?
Nothing I reckon. Nothing at all.
That chimney demolition was a thing of raw beauty 🙂
That's the way to do it.
mcmoonter - MemberJust what was the guy demolishing the chimney thinking?
I liked that the exact moment I thought "Yeah, that's definitely going to collapse straight downwards rather than topple", was the exact moment it did. Minus points for the cameraman though.
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This is the safe way to do it.