Incredible selfie .. no fear of hights here.

[davidmash]

Taken from atop a Dubi sky scraper. 1,000 feet in the air. Pretty sure I could not do that. Sorry for the size. No idea how to shrink them. I just linked from the web site.

Yahoo

[Stretch]

That makes me feel sick just looking at the picture

[cmac2012]

Amazing, if a little nutty. I can't tell how got to the top on that first one.

[t walgamuth]

There is the short ladder for reaching the very top and a hatch which is slightly ajar to get to the short ladder, then the two bullet shaped things appear to be more or less identical.

I might have tried something like that when I was young. When in Barcelona in 1970 myself and my buddy climbed to the top of one of the towers on the Sagrada Familia Cathedral which was about 450' and took pictures (no selfies) of the city. Unfortunately the film was lost to thieves south of Rome a month later.

Dubai must have the most prolific collection of excellent modern Architecture of any city in the world. There is so much that is really good that you get numb to it all. Buildings that would be scrutinized in any other city I have seen get ignored because there are so many of them.

[JB3]

yeah i dont think id be doing that. there must be a ladder behind the guys body in the first pic.

my cousin just went there a few months ago, he was going on and on about just the sky scrapers and nothing else but sand. i can see why, looks like a city with no longstanding presence or infrastructure. just highway and sky scraper

[t walgamuth]

Originally Posted by JB3

yeah i dont think id be doing that. there must be a ladder behind the guys body in the first pic.

my cousin just went there a few months ago, he was going on and on about just the sky scrapers and nothing else but sand. i can see why, looks like a city with no longstanding presence or infrastructure. just highway and sky scraper

Your cousin has it right. If you look away from the ocean in a few miles there is nothing but desert.

[JB3]

Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Your cousin has it right. If you look away from the ocean in a few miles there is nothing but desert.

reminds me of the sim city game from these pics. i can see why its an architects dream though, all the money and space to build whatever the hell you want

[cmac2012]

If they treat thrill seeking building climbers anything like the way they treat foreign workers, I'd be real careful doing that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/nyregion/workers-at-nyus-abu-dhabi-site-face-harsh-conditions.html?_r=0

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The strike had entered its second day when construction workers at Labor Camp 42 got word that their bosses from the BK Gulf corporation had come to negotiate. Mohammed Amir Waheed Sirkar, an electrician from Bangladesh, scrambled down the stairs to meet them. But when he got to the courtyard, he saw the truth: It wasn’t the bosses who had come. It was the police.

They pounded on doors, breaking some down, and hauled dozens of men to prison. Mr. Sirkar was taken to a Dubai police station, where officers interrogated him. After a while, new officers arrived. That’s when things got rough.

“They beat me up,” he said through an Urdu interpreter, “asking me to confess I was involved in starting the strike.” Others were slapped, kicked, or beaten with shoes, a special indignity in Arab culture.

After nine days in jail, Mr. Sirkar was deported, as were hundreds of other workers.

The forceful response was typical for the United Arab Emirates, where strikes are illegal and labor conditions grim, but most of the men who went on strike last October were working on a project that originated in America: a large new campus for New York University.

[sunedog]

I have self-induced fear of heights. (Used to jump off bridges into lakes and rivers in college. Jumped from as high as 100 feet.) So even that first still shot makes my stomach uneasy.

Watch this if you are so inclined. I am OK with it until the guy leaves the inside of the triangular structure and starts climbing the outside of the tower.

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

[davidmash]

Someone posted that same video a while back. My butt still takes a bite out of my shorts when I see it. There is absolutely no way I could do that. I am almost positive I would either pass out or stroke from high blood pressure or just plain lock up 20 ft off the ground. I like the part at about 6:50 where he says 'this is the tricky part'. Yea, climbing up a 1,700 foot tower (some of unattached to anything) is not tricky.

[t walgamuth]

I used to climb things for fun, like water towers and church towers, but nothing anywhere near as tall as this. Yikes!

[Can't Know]

Then there's also this fun little trail...

(In my younger, more stupid days, I probably would have done this.)


El Camino del Rey [High Quality] - YouTube

[t walgamuth]

Originally Posted by Can't Know

Then there's also this fun little trail...

(In my younger, more stupid days, I probably would have done this.)


El Camino del Rey [High Quality] - YouTube

That looked unsafe. Made me queasy to watch it.