A daredevil climber risking his life for breathtaking views

A counter article, to keep the dangers into perspective:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;11&#x2F;a-daredevil-died-doing-pullups-off-a-skyscraper-in-china" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;worldviews&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;11...</a><p>If you have nerves to see it, the video of him losing the grip and falling is available online (sorry, I won&#x27;t link here) and it&#x27;s nerve-wracking terrible. How he struggles to climb back, just to let go... I only saw it because I didn&#x27;t know at that time that he fell to his death.<p>From personal (anecdotal) experience, after videos of the person from huckmagazine went viral - Shangai Tower, Hong Kong - a lot of Chinese started to do the same, plainly risking their lives to be cool.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what I&#x27;m trying to say, maybe that it&#x27;s all awesome until someone dies.

For those who managed to miss the &quot;Shanghai Tower&quot; video from 2014 - this is what basically put this guy and his friend on the radar. An absolutely fantastic watch.<p>Incidentally, it also helped putting some much deserved light on N&#x27;to and Worakls, whose Trauma track was used for the soundtrack.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U</a>

Does anyone else get actually sweat palms just from looking at the photos? Happens to my feet as well (sandals), though not quite as bad. It&#x27;s not an immediate reaction but if I take a few seconds to focus on it then it really happens -- especially so when viewing the photo of him looking down at his feet from the top of a spire.<p>The photos are absolutely breathtaking though, and I&#x27;m only half-way through the article, but I had to take a second to ask this question -- it&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve been curious about before as well. =)

I don&#x27;t have any issue at all with people doing what they love. I am just slightly worried about him putting others to risk, should he fall and possibly hit someone. Anyone feeling the same?<p>Besides that, do whatever you want, even if I don&#x27;t agree with it or its motivations. I am not the ruler of the world.<p>People tend to get overly emotional with these subjects because they usually project themselves onto their opinions and if they get a nasty rebuttal, they feel it like a personal attack or w&#x2F;e. Being brutally honest: It&#x27;s his body and will and he&#x27;s free to do whatever he wants with it, except harm others without their consent.<p>o&#x2F;

This guy is putting himself, and others, at risk. This is not romantic or fantastic in any way when accidents happen. Imagine that this guy falls or loses any object and falls over someone. This is a serious topic and it is life threatening with the only excuse of getting video views.

Honestly I&#x27;m fine with people risking their lives, as long as they foot the bill when they need a harrowing rescue. It can cost high hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a single person out of a bind, it should not be anyone else&#x27;s responsibility to pay for one person&#x27;s high-risk behaviours (at least not after the fact).<p>If you knowingly engage in an impractical behaviour which makes the need for a rescue likely, and don&#x27;t bring your own staff and equipment to reasonably expect to achieve that, then you should be liable when you consent or would inevitably consent to rescue.

I think the next logical step is to base jump from these towers.