Their other project, jacuzzi on the Mont Blanc (highest summit of the alps) is equally crazy: <a href="http://jaccuzzi.ch/index_e.html" rel="nofollow">http://jaccuzzi.ch/index_e.html</a><p>20 sweaty alpinists in one tub :)
Reminded me of extreme ironing :) <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=extreme+ironing&tbm=isch" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=extreme+ironing&tbm=isch</a>
I like that they're all wearing helmets while in the jacuzzi. Because, you know, it would be completely irresponsible not to. (They're probably more worried about knocking a helmet off the side by accident, if they were taken off, than the utility of wearing a helmet should the cables holding the jacuzzi break.)
This reminds me of the article on bullshitting the other day. On the one hand this is useless play time that wastes resources. But it's also quite a big project. Everybody who took part in planning and executing it gained a lot of experience in project planning and management, the dynamics of working with people, how to work with their peers.<p>No matter what random challenge tomorrow brings this group of people is probably better equipped to deal with it than most social groups who have never tackled anything like this together. Of course they may not be great at handling the mundane, and that might be what drives them to hang jacuzzis off bridges.
Those are some high spirited friends, wish you could order them in mail just like that. But anyway, what about the permissions, is everyone going to start doing this now?
they also did one on top of Mont Blanc (highest mountain of Europe): <a href="http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=112" rel="nofollow">http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=112</a> and inside a cave where you need to dive to reach the spot:
<a href="http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=171" rel="nofollow">http://jaccuzzi.ch/html/affichjacc.php?id=171</a>
The question that keeps running through my head -- how do you get back up onto the bridge, once you've left the jacuzzi?<p>Pulled up by winch?<p>Hand over hand climbing (ouch) or manually but assisted by equipment (e.g., I can imagine one-way sliders on the rope that'd let you climb with leg power)?<p>I did my share of rappelling when I was a teenager, but never had to climb back up the way I'd come with nothing but the rope....
I applaud their chutzpah. However, my crew would not be wearing swimsuits!<p>I don't think I could bear to take off my harness, though. Getting clothing off would be a conundrum... either that or a very cold descent.