How high before you lost your bottle?

[Mike N]

I was just thinking about this. The last climb is ridiculous. Why he agreed to do it I'll never know.

 

[Why Always Ste]

My grandad was a steeplejack in the same era as Fred (they met a few times) and saw a couple of his mates die over the years. No helmet, just a flat cap and balls of steel. He was a brilliant climber and fit as a fiddle, though once had to be rescued by helicopter from a mill chimney top in the 60s.

When real men were made.

 

[Sir peace frog]

I was just thinking about this. The last climb is ridiculous. Why he agreed to do it I'll never know.

for a blue peter badge.

whenever I watch anyone climbing high strange feeling in my willy area like its trying to go back into my body :)

 

[york away to this!]

^^^ It's one of those love/hate things for me. Hate the feeling though can't stop myself enjoying it. Bit like marriages...

 

[kashmir]

Check this out shit myself just watching it!

 

[york away to this!]

^^^that gives me "the willies" as my dear old father used to call it!

 

[buzzer1]

Jesus fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk...that was incredible, my stomach was honestly somersaulting watching that..i dread to watch him come down it.

 

[Nascent Blues]

Not proud of this at all and feel pretty ashamed that I could have fucked up several lives (family and friends). In my early twenties, and utterly fucking smashed, I stood on the outside of my mate's flat's balcony, held on to one of the end railings with the tip of my left trainer, leaned right across and started wave through the window of the living room where all my mates were equally fucked, just for a laugh and to fuck their heads up a bit. This was 11 floors up and after about 8 hours of getting fucked. I've never been afraid of heights and actually really enjoy being high up - I've have been in some pretty dangerous situations on mountains in the Dolomites, the Highlands in Scotland and North Wales. Looking back though, I was one seriously lucky fucker as I was literally leaning right over whilst holding on with the top two inches of my Adidas Gazelle. I sometimes imagine my mates telling my mum how I died. Never again.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

How to attach a ladder to a chimney, Dibnah style

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[somapop]

Just get someone to foot the ladder or put a bag of sand there, don't over stretch at the top and that'll take the shakiness away

I think when I went up at Christmas, the angle wasn't particularly text book. Possibly need to extend the angle out a bit (move the ladder further away from the wall).
I had the missus stand at the bottom for the first couple of 'treks', but sand bag sounds like a solution for the next vista up the Matterhorn.

There's another vid of Fred constructing those ladders runs right up to the top of these chimneys (as he goes along).
Utter mind boggling.