I like watching these videos, but, it does get my heart rate up with some of their higher climbing. I’d never do that, I do not like heights. But they do some cool removal.

Guilty of Treeson

If that sets off your anxiety, then I give you fair warning. Do not watch videos of Alex Honnold climbing.

And just to be a smart-ass tease, I'm going to leave a link to one, but you don't want to click on it, right?

https://youtu.be/Phl82D57P58?feature=shared

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Originally posted by iron chef:
If that sets off your anxiety, then I give you fair warning. Do not watch videos of Alex Honnold climbing.

And just to be a smart-ass tease, I'm going to leave a link to one, but you don't want to click on it, right?

https://youtu.be/Phl82D57P58?feature=shared

I’ll check it out……eventually.

Better not watch the movie 'Fall' (2022).

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Better not watch the movie 'Fall' (2022).

That's an interesting film concept that takes place almost entirely on a 2000' broadcast tower. Reminds me of Open Water and 127 Hours.

"North Face Presents..."

I closed the window when I saw mention of those twats.

There are a few dozen wind turbine generator vids on YouTube.

They climb those structures to inspect and repair them.

But some of them video the procedures with drones.

If those don't give you the Willy's, you must be super human

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My son does tree work and is luckily a mostly inactive rock climber now. He also climbed 80 foot masts on tall ships. My family has a fortunate built in philosophy of not worrying until its time to worry. I get some solace that I know he's smart and follows safety protocols. But trees have built in hidden stresses and weaknesses.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:
My son does tree work and is luckily a mostly inactive rock climber now. He also climbed 80 foot masts on tall ships. My family has a fortunate built in philosophy of not worrying until its time to worry. I get some solace that I know he's smart and follows safety protocols. But trees have built in hidden stresses and weaknesses.

My son did tree work for a long time as well but had to quit due to his knees getting bad and being stung too many times by bees. He still has all his climbing gear. He was over this summer trimming two very old and large maple trees in my yard. He was probably sixty-seventy feet up. His English Setter just sat next to me trembling and watching him up in the tree. She couldn't comprehend why he would be up there but must have sensed the danger in it.

I completely respect the good arborists. Cutting while up in the tree is a whole different game than what I do as a weekend warrior felling trees on our ranch. I've learned a fair amount of cutting techniques from the Guilty of Treeson guys, both as the current independent company and the prior larger company. Reg Coates is considered by some to be one of the best climbing arborists out there. I've watch a few youtubes from August Hunicke, too. Guilty of Treeson does a decent job of filming, and with an upbeat attitude.

I haven't climbed for a few years -- was pretty active in rock climbing and mountaineering. Alex Honnold is just amazing, but his solo climbing just makes my palms sweat. Years ago I climbed some of the more travelled bolted routes on at El Potrero Chico, the area of the link on the second post in this thread. IIRC the tallest routes we did at the Potrero were a touch over 1,000 feet, all on close to vertical rock. Much of the limestone was pretty nice rock -- solid with decent holds. But there's a lot of loose rocks & boulders on those cliffs, just waiting to become missiles at the wrong moment. I've been over a thousand feet up on routes in Red Rocks (Nevada) and southern France. Maybe my most single memorable route was the Casual Route on The Diamond -- north face of Longs Peak, CO. I had a healthy fear of heights as a child. A person can work through it.

One of the better precision rifle shooters in my area is a very good rock climber, and he works on towers -- wind farm & other types.

Watching some of the people who change the bulbs on high towers in the middle of nowhere gives me the butterflies feeling in my stomach. I couldn't imagine doing it for a living.