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> This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone.

Off topic, but here is a viable contender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMHjDqHL_Y

There are videos of higher towers, but I believe that this video is the most thoroughly annotated one.




That's a real classic! A not as high, but way more reckless version is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc Guaranteed to induce acrophobia.


I really hope that guy practiced repressing the instinct to lunge at a bad throw when juggling. Extremely rare occurrence with such a simple pattern, but ooph!

I feel like any of Alex Honnold's ropeless climbs deserves a link too, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phl82D57P58


> A not as high, but way more reckless version

I expected to see these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2-l3aWCTA


Wow... they must really have to time these service trips with the weather... You'd be so exposed...

Also surprising is the apparent lack of safety... the carabiners / clips just loosely hang around the occasional rung and are often completely unattached... I wouldn't trust that if he fell the clip would hold him.


That video gives me physical discomfort in my balls. I wonder what the evolutionary explanation for that symptom is?!




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