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Russian and Ukranian dare-devils scale the worlds' 2nd tallest building

donegal__road · 2014-02-19 14:30:19

If you are prone to anxiety attacks, this may not be the best film clip for you to watch. Russian and Ukranian, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov climb the stairs to the top of the worlds' 2nd tallest building and then proceed to climb out to the end of a crane that is attached to the top of the building. It starts…

19-02-2014 2:30pm

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If you are prone to anxiety attacks, this may not be the best film clip for you to watch. Russian and Ukranian, Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov climb the stairs to the top of the worlds' 2nd tallest building and then proceed to climb out to the end of a crane that is attached to the top of the building. It starts getting hard to watch @ 3:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U

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#2 19-02-2014 2:31pm

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There is a thread for videos and this is in it since last week.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056602222

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#3 19-02-2014 2:34pm

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I once fell 40' rock climbing and hit the deck. I have edge anxiety now...this would not be a sport for me

Fair play to them.

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#4 19-02-2014 2:34pm

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Temptamperu wrote: »

There is a thread for videos and this is in it since last week.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056602222

ok, didn't realise.

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#5 19-02-2014 2:41pm

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Bit disy after watching that

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#6 19-02-2014 2:43pm

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MadsL wrote: »

I once fell 40' rock climbing and hit the deck. I have edge anxiety now...this would not be a sport for me

Fair play to them.

I rolled off the bed once and onto the floor, I have anxiety about leaving said bed now.

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#7 19-02-2014 2:45pm

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I'd love to do that, providing I had a parachute to parachute down once I got to the top. I'd be too exhausted to climb all the way back down.

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#8 19-02-2014 7:22pm

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Lost interest after 'second tallest'

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#9 19-02-2014 7:28pm

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Up in the lift, up some steps, out a few planks and Bobs your uncle. Once you go past the third floor, you're dead if you fall anyway. The rest is just step-tistics. I don't get the big fear, or fascination.

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#10 19-02-2014 8:19pm

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Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Up in the lift, up some steps, out a few planks and Bobs your uncle. Once you go past the third floor, you're dead if you fall anyway. The rest is just step-tistics. I don't get the big fear, or fascination.

True enough.

But at that height you'd have time to realize that you're already dead and all the associated horrible feelings.
You'd also have that horrible falley feeling like when you fall off a building in GTA.

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#11 19-02-2014 8:22pm

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The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

True enough.

But at that height you'd have time to realize that you're already dead and all the associated horrible feelings.
You'd also have that horrible falley feeling like when you fall off a building in GTA.

The falley feeling is surprisingly quick, and your life does not flash before your eyes.

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#12 19-02-2014 8:28pm

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Whatever about them lads climbing it, imagine having to work up there day after day, now that takes balls...

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#13 19-02-2014 8:29pm

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MadsL wrote: »

The falley feeling is surprisingly quick, and your life does not flash before your eyes.

For the Shanghai tower, even if only half way up you'd still get a good 30 seconds of unadulterated terror.

10 meters per second and all that.

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#14 19-02-2014 8:37pm

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MadsL wrote: »

I once fell 40' rock climbing and hit the deck. I have edge anxiety now...this would not be a sport for me

Fair play to them.

Why were you climbing 40 foot rocks?

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#15 19-02-2014 8:42pm

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I played Assassin's Creed 3 and almost crapped my pants when climbing up the outside of that skyscraper. This video wll almost certainly not be watched by me

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#16 19-02-2014 8:45pm

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stimpson wrote: »

Why were you climbing 40 foot rocks?

I wasn't, I was climbing 200' rocks and only got 40' up them :P

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#17 19-02-2014 8:47pm

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The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

For the Shanghai tower, even if only half way up you'd still get a good 30 seconds of unadulterated terror.

10 meters per second and all that.

Good chance that you would black out before impact..i don't particularly remember the impact, but then again I was knocked unconscious by it.

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#18 19-02-2014 8:48pm

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MadsL wrote: »

I wasn't, I was climbing 200' rocks and only got 40' up them :P

Argument with the rope ??

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#19 19-02-2014 9:21pm

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Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Whatever about them lads climbing it, imagine having to work up there day after day, now that takes balls...

It doesn't. It just takes a lack of imagination.

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#20 19-02-2014 9:29pm

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Stavros Murphy wrote: »

It doesn't. It just takes a lack of imagination.

Or a lack of balls, if your a woman that is, I bottled it at the 40ft in sandycove, too much balls being the reason.

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#21 05-03-2014 10:21am

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here is a clip of the descent.. I think the high-5 at the end is a bit unneccessary. You can only flirt with death for so long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC9ej30WJs

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