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The human brain...interesting not?
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=0k4lsi1dql

wow...

amazing

wow!

Not worth it
http://www.indeed.com/q-Tower-Climbers-jobs.html

There's no way

I used to climb water towers for a civil engineering firm (most were 150-185 feet). It paid better than what you found, Mike, but it wasn't full time, either...just part of my full time job. Once you get over about 40', a fall would kill you anyway, so you lose the fear after 2 or 3 climbs. I never was much of a free-climber, though. I'd rather be tired from hooking and unhooking than not attached to a safety device.

amen, I've had to free climb 55 feet where I work and when I got to the top my arms were done cause I was squeezing the ladder so tight the whole way up. I can't imagine going that high free climbing

I have climbed 160' of external steel ladder to paint a billboard from a swing stage.
As I watched that video I was O.K. with it until he stepped outside. Then when he got to the base of the pole and kept going, I just said "no way". I am certain I could not make myself do that.