[Boatanchors] Tower Climbing Video

[Michael D. Harmon]

I've climbed a few towers in my life, and I have to say, this video made 
me naseous (which is something that almost NEVER happens!).

It wasn't so bad when the guy was climbing the ladder and looking down, 
but watching him go out over the top of the tower and start up the pegs 
scared the crap out of me.   I've ALWAYS used a belt and hooks when 
climbing anything higher than an extension ladder!  Free-climbing 
something like that is just plain reckless!  All it would take is one 
bad weld on those pegs and the guy would be a statistic.  Not to mention 
hooking his hook over a peg!  What if he got a wind gust that threw him 
sideways so that his hook slid off the end of the peg?

The scariest tower pic I ever saw before this was one I saw in Broadcast 
Engineering about 40 years ago that showed an ironworker standing on one 
of the bowtie TV antenna elements on the tower on top of the John 
Hancock Center in Chicago, holding with one hand to the element above 
his head.

I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.  I didn't live to 61 by doing stuff 
like this!