Here's the sad story of the missing video. Our litigious society strikes
again!
http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/
It showed the climber free climbing, only hooking from time to time to
rest. I was shaking my head at that practice too, especially when he's
climbing screwed-in bar steps on the outside of the pipe near the top. I've
been up countless such steps on ship's masts (only a couple of hundred feet
or less above the water, though, nothing like that astronaut on the
video). Can't say how often I felt one step flex then break under my weight.
On ships they paint the darn things, and painters just paint over rust, so
it keeps eating away at the step making it weaker until suddenly you're
dangling from your safety harness looking at steel deck 50 feet or so
below...
Ron AC7AC
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