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Title: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: McQ on April 12, 2012, 08:04:44 PM
If you have seven minutes or so to spare and want to feel dizzy and get vertigo, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-7Qp7uzbQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-7Qp7uzbQ)

I'm a former military aviator and I get freaked out just watching this. Every time I thought the guy was at the top of the tower, he went up another level.

Enjoy.

Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: Tank on April 12, 2012, 08:13:14 PM
I don't like hight's. I got 1:05 then gave up!
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: McQ on April 12, 2012, 09:21:21 PM
Quote from: Tank on April 12, 2012, 08:13:14 PM
I don't like hight's. I got 1:05 then gave up!

I completely understand the feeling. It's amazing what even a little video like this can do. I got seriously weird watching this and had to shake it off a few times. Almost couldn't watch it through.
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: AnimatedDirt on April 12, 2012, 09:24:18 PM
I've watched that before.  The first time, it really did make my stomach queezy!!  These guys are crazy!!
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: Guardian85 on April 12, 2012, 09:24:36 PM
You gotta be a special kind of crazy to do that for a living....  :o
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: DeterminedJuliet on April 12, 2012, 09:31:46 PM
The interview for this job must have been interesting.

"So.. you, um, climb this tower..."
"Okay, that doesn't sound so bad"
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: xSilverPhinx on April 13, 2012, 01:40:36 AM
Watching the video made me feel a bit seasick, actually. The camera moves a lot.  :-X
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: Sandra Craft on April 13, 2012, 02:23:11 AM
Quote from: Tank on April 12, 2012, 08:13:14 PM
I don't like hight's. I got 1:05 then gave up!

I didn't make it to the end either -- I was actually starting to feel nauseous.
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: McQ on April 13, 2012, 03:24:39 AM
Quote from: DeterminedJuliet on April 12, 2012, 09:31:46 PM
The interview for this job must have been interesting.

"So.. you, um, climb this tower..."
"Okay, that doesn't sound so bad"

Heh-heh! And, "Do you know how to change a light bulb?"
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: history_geek on April 13, 2012, 02:15:03 PM
I actually finished the vid. Just ...woah. The pay for these guys ought to be pretty damn high :o

And the whole way that he was climbing I was thinking to myself: "Yeah, I'm no fan of heights, but this is so far up that it really doesn't matter anymore. But for those free climb parts...I want a fraking parachute!"
Title: Re: Height of Courage - Video
Post by: Gawen on April 14, 2012, 01:31:42 AM
The video didn't bother me. But if it were me on that tower, that would bother me. I've had to change aviation light bulbs on top 300ft water towers, that's bad enough.