Could You Do This?

[piggynose]

It makes me sick looking at it!!

https://youtu.be/KWPA3vKDaLo

[barry1010]

Nope, I managed to watch half a second.

[Geoffrey13]

No different from rock-climbing I guess. But no, you wouldn't get me trying it.

[Geoffrey13]

You should have stayed tuned Barry, it gets more exciting later on when he starts climbing upwards :-)

[1581960]

Nothing like that high but I did a bit of steel erecting a long long time ago and that was how we behaved, wouldn't be allowed under todays health and safety regs

[Arksided]

I could but consider myself well balanced, but nope couldn’t be ars***

[andy-hughes]

If memory serves, the Mohawk people are all born with a total absence of vertigo, making skyscraper construction an ideal career choice for them.

If you think about it, what he is doing is simple, if you remove the inbuilt terror of falling that is built into our psyche so deeply, that we even feel uncomfortable watching him do what he does, knowing that he came to no harm, because the film is available.

With no fear of falling, he can walk a beam like walking down the street.

[andy-hughes]

Geoffrey - It is different from rock climbing.

Scaffolding is uniform, level, and built to last.

Rocks are random, prone to crumbling, wind, rain, and slippage.

Plus, it's normal to be roped when rock climbing, removing the risk of one-slip fatality.

[andy-hughes]

It's interesting, because anything above twenty feet could prove fatal in a fall, but the higher the structure, the more uncomfortable it is watching someone risking falling off it.

[douglas9401]

I'm told there's great danger in a massive erection like that.

[Rosie29]

I thought it was marvellous to watch - I couldn't take my eyes off it - thanks piggynose.

[pastafreak]

I couldn't watch it all. I have enough trouble on a step stool.

[Arksided]

Some folk on here would need a Zimmer, so that's a bit unfair. could you

[Geoffrey13]

UK's answer

[Buenchico]

>>> If memory serves, the Mohawk people are all born with a total absence of vertigo

That seems to be a myth.

This article, from the Radio Canada website, is actually in French but Google has done a surprisingly good job of translating it into English here:
https://ici-radio--canada-ca.translate.goog/nouvelle/1009042/mohawks-kahnawake-autochtones-monteurs-acier-charpentier-ponts?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[Buenchico]

Blast!

That link doesn't seem to be working. Try clicking on the right-hand link here:
https://translate.google.co.uk/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=https%3A%2F%2Fici.radio-canada.ca%2Fnouvelle%2F1009042%2Fmohawks-kahnawake-autochtones-monteurs-acier-charpentier-ponts&op=translate

[jno]

builders laugh at danger

https://tinyurl.com/mrx4r92x

[andy-hughes]

Always happy to stand corrected Chris, thanks.

Tune in next week when someone tells us that everyone shallows six spiders in their sleep in their lifetime.

(Spoiler - that's not true either!).

[Gromit]

Some of that steelwork looked - cheap.

[jno]

I imagine Prince Andrew could do it, as he doesn't sweat.

[andy-hughes]

Jno - I bet he learned about 24 hours after that interview hit the airwaves!!

I bet he used to boast he didn't have bowel movements either, and the interview reaction cured that as well!!!