Exploring The Shanghai Tower

**dannyboy** · 12th February 2014

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

From the blog of Raskalov, one of the climbers:
Few months ago me and dedmaxopka planned to travel to Chinese largest cities, starting from Hong Kong and ending in Shanghai. Our maing goal was the tallest construction in the world - Shangha Tower, which is still under construction, it's height is little over 650 metres at the moment, which makes it second tallest building after Burj Khalifa in Emirates.
Knowing about strict Chinese laws, we prepared quite thoroughly for this and chose the most approriate date - Chinese New Year. During this holiday security was less vigilant, there were no workers on the site and construction cranes didn't work. We sneaked into the site during the midnight, then climbed 120 flours for two hours and had to sleep almost 18 hours on the site waiting for a good weather.

**CallmeGoose** · 12th February 2014

was shitting myself just watching that!

**akimba** · 12th February 2014

I aint good at heights at all and these sort of films gives me the heebeegeebees and this one is prob one of the worst, had to stop it a couple of times, how could they climb up that crane with just a bit of metal grating stopping them falling all it :-0

**akimba** · 12th February 2014

Originally Posted by CallmeGoose

was shitting myself just watching that!

Yeah same as :-S

**WRATH OF BOD** · 12th February 2014

my ars was twitching all through that.lol

**ivrytwr3** · 12th February 2014

I did the Burj Khalifa and bricking it - there were kids running around me laughing - so watching that made me feel ill - they were higher than a hot air balloon ffs!!!!

**BigBrand** · 12th February 2014

Worse thing these guys do is have a GO Pro on their head, when they look over an edge my stomach turns and I think I've gone over. Unreal.

**consoles** · 12th February 2014

I dont know if its age and knowing better now, but I couldn't watch all that, made me feel very uneasy.
20 years ago id like be like yer lets do it, now! fuck that.

**{{909}}** · 13th February 2014

daredevils my ass! some poor cunt chinese workers will have to do the same thing every day for about 200 quid a month.

**akimba** · 13th February 2014

Originally Posted by {{909}}

daredevils my ass! some poor cunt chinese workers will have to do the same thing every day for about 200 quid a month.

Yeah and that's what makes it worse as u never know if that poor Chinese worker remembered to do up the bolt that was meant to be holding the grating down :-)

**BigBrand** · 13th February 2014

Originally Posted by {{909}}

daredevils my ass! some poor cunt chinese workers will have to do the same thing every day for about 200 quid a month.

daredevil
ˈdɛːdɛv(ə)l/Submit
noun
noun: dare-devil
1.
a reckless person who enjoys doing dangerous things.
"spectators watched in horror as the nineteen-year-old daredevil smashed into the ground"

Makes both of them dare devils by my book, stop trying to put them down (Pun intended)

**{{909}}** · 13th February 2014

point taken, but I don't think the workers are up there for enjoyment

**cyprus** · 13th February 2014

I'm sure the workers have safety lines though...

**BigBrand** · 13th February 2014

Originally Posted by {{909}}

point taken, but I don't think the workers are up there for enjoyment

Agreed, takes some balls either way !

**ivrytwr3** · 13th February 2014

Originally Posted by {{909}}

daredevils my ass! some poor cunt chinese workers will have to do the same thing every day for about 200 quid a month.

You say that, but i worked in the UAE recently and got 'down and dirty' with the working population (indian, pakistani, etc) and although they were living 8 to a room (some more, some less) for a poor wage (by our standards) when i asked "why?" they told me that if they remained in their own homes they would have little to no chance of ANY cash/job. This way they can support their families back home and some have a better style of living in the UAE than they do back home.

And most importantly, "if i didn't want to do it, i wouldn't do it". This coming from a worked who had been in the UAE over 20 years.

**{{909}}** · 14th February 2014

I dunno about the want/do situation. Here in China if you dont work you are screwed on so many levels, so they have no other options but there must be something that gives them the motivation to do that crazy shit and not sweep the streets or sit in a shop.

No job = no wife, no kids, no respect from your family, plus continuous grief from your parents (regardless of your age) so swinging from a crane at 600metres may be a breeze compared to that.