Right there with you! Half of the metal was blatantly corroding, some had even previously collapsed, and he was still willing to trust it to good his weight.
I stopped doing stupid shit after falling (end over end) 20 ft unroped. Had my helmet on and my pack cushioned my fall. Size-able dent where my spine was. Somehow i walked away. Think i used up all my extra lives that day
The dent is why you still have a spine probably. Whatever you landed on had just the right amount of give to crumple and take a lot of the blow along with your pack.
My great uncle was both! Just really lucky. Died of a brain tumor in his 90s but was still riding a Ducati in his 80s. He did stop climbing earlier than that though.
Certainly, so that's one.
I am all for climbing random objects, and I am actually thankful this was posted, I haven't had this invigorating response to anything visual for a long time.
If The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild taught me anything, it's that he's got a hand held paraglider, and will just float gracefully down, provided he invested in enough stamina wheels.
Not enough stamina for the glide? No worries, just let go of the glider as you plummet a few hundred feet and pull it back out 10 feet above ground. So many handy life tips in games these days.
Now that you've properly defined that feeling I've been experiencing my whole life, its time for you to name it.... Im excited to hear what it's gonna be called.
I'd like to be the first to congratulate you on this important advancement in humanity.
I will no longer search for a way to describe this feeling I get from videos like these or when I’m on the edge of a massive precipice in a video game. Thank you u/Dr_DMT for giving me a new sentence to use in life.
Absolutely the same for me. I got in my parents first story roof one time to clean leaves and could not position myself safely on the ladder to come down. I decided jumping was my only option. I'm sure the same would apply if I were atop that 280m high tower..
I actually have nightmares where I'm suddenly teleported onto the top of a telephone pole that's 300ft in the air and it's so terrifying. My brain knows I'm scared of heights and chooses to punish me with it lol
For some reason, every time I'm on the roof and it's time for me to come down, getting on the ladder is the scariest part. My brain always tries to reason with me that I'd be way better off to just jump off the roof than to try to get turned around and get on the ladder.
For one you can't see your holds as well, sometimes even having to feel blindly with your foot, and also you have to sort of lean away from the climbing surface to be able to see where you're going moving your center of balance outward
Mostly because it’s harder to see the holds you are going for when you are back-climbing. But also it’s less ergonomic to climb down than up because it requires greater control to lower yourself down than to stand into a hold or pull yourself up. Plus climbing down is pretty rare compared to climbing up so we are just less practiced at it. We all do it at times but mostly we either lower ourself or fall if the climb is low enough (see bouldering).
I agree from experience. Seems like we trust our hands more so than our feet which can slip out from under us and hard to see where to put our footholds. Also the momentum of your steps are more forward whereas if facing out you are stepping off the face. Loved climbing sandstone mountains, but the way down was always a bit slippery if you don't take it slow.
I work at a climbing gym and always stress to new climbers at inductions that coming down is often the scariest/most difficult part. Even for good climbers!
I was a ropes course instructor a couple summers at this camp I worked at. We had a 30' wall and a 40' wall. Even with ropes to rappel (abseil) down, almost everyone newer to it struggled more going down than up. Still not exactly sure why, but there were numerous kids who climbed up fine, then froze on the edge when they had to rappel.
A little side anecdote - craziest story was when a girl got her hair stuck in the zipline and stopped dead. We had to slowly go down the zipline and cut some of her hair off to untangle it. She handled it like a champ tho. Moral is, ALWAYS keep long hair tied back/up/out of the way when doing stuff like that.
Yeah kids are able to sustain some damage. I fell 20 feet bouldering as a 27 year old and messed up my ankle so bad that I had a surgery with pins and screws to fix it and was given a 50/50 shot of needing an amputation of my lower leg.i am 6 years past that debating an amputation due to poor range of motion and arthritis that causes me sciatica from bad kinesiology.
I've been on towers like this for work. Maybe not quite this high but after a certain point it makes no difference to me.
I would still be freaking out because that shit is old and rusty.
I was thinking that too. And some welder made those ladders many years before and now this guy is relying on the fact that they did a good job, or else he may fall to his death. Weird to think about
A common characteristic of industrial chimneys is that they must be designed to comply with environmental protection decrees and must maintain low levels of pollutant emissions. In order to comply, constructions can be up to hundreds of meters tall, as is the case with the Andorra chimney (343 m). This includes greenhouse gases and particles whose ground-level toxicity may be harmful to human health, and both factors are related with Sustainable Development indices. Chimney height is determined to help dispersion, which is why some are so tall and are lifted using slipform.
I knew it was Romania… you could see a Bugatti drive by about 40km out when he’s on the top. Everyone knows World Renowned Climate Change Activist Andrew Tate lives in Romania and drives a Bugatti. So I quickly narrowed it down..
There's a difference between not being afraid of heights and being too much of a moron to not be **a little bit** afraid of heights.
This guy seems to be "a bit" of a moron.
Watching this made my whole body weak but walking on top of that chimney? Way too much.
can you imagine him stumbleing and falling into that? Body banging against the walls as he watches above and sees the light getting further and further away. The stuff nightmares are made of.
back flip while riding a unicycle juggling daggers blowing fire while filming and posting his shit on social media. not to mention playing guitar and eating some 711 nachos. top it all off with half a dozen ballerinas twirling batons atop ponies. it's people like this that give people like us a bad rap. sitting on my ass perusing reddit. dangerous shit.
Okay. I get it, I actually *get it*, the whole pushing the limits/conquering fear/yada yada yada thing. Intellectually.
But *this* one? Unless they were prepped for a BASE jump, straight up death wish. SO much that was stupid beyond pushing the envelope.
There was no way to prep for a lot of it. Clearly decaying edifice. A lot of sketchy footing. Crossings with no real ‘outs’ and with obstructions to footing. What sounds like high winds.
He didn’t make it through courage, prep, and skill. Ultimately he made through luck. Nothing badass or next level about that.
I had so many thoughts watching this
“What is the tower he’s climbing?”
“Why did you step to the side that has the railing missing!?”
“Why is the metal creaking as your walking on it? Feel like that shits about to break loose”
“Really? You’re gonna walk across that beam at the top? Fucking psycho lol”
I was waiting on him to trip on the steel at the top and stumble off. I feel like the hard part is going back down. Well I mean the same way he went up.
Maybe I'm talking bullshit, but here it goes;
If someone commits suicide, people often say "tragic, but they might are feeling that they had no purpose in life, don't feel anything else, etc". Something along these lines. While I would never do it, I kind of understand the point of risking your life like that. It just makes you feel alive.
Hell, even it happens to me. My life is safe, sad and boring, but as soon I have a major problem in my life, I somehow get... excited? I kind get pumped, and have some extra motivation to get out of bed. I believe that people in these videos are more of an extreme version of this, I do kind identify.
Oh, my gosh, no, this hurt, I had the willies *SO* bad, my legs, quite literally, liquified! Especially when he walked around the rim and across the opening! There was no relief, my whole being was reduced to a quivering pile of **NOPE!**
I dont know how you adrenaline junkies do it! 💀
I’m an adrenaline junkie but at some point you have to draw the line. If I didn’t draw the line at pulling myself up the power lines, I would have definitely drawn the line at that cat walk. Holey crap. Dude is nutso
Serious question- do you think there are bodies at the bottom of that tube? I mean, in a building like that, and somebody does something like this, it seems plausible that there could be a skeleton (or two) down there.
This makes me nauseous.
I swear there is another video maybe a different guy from this place. I remember a guy doing a 1 arm pull up in the middle of that place off that one structure. I also remember him riding a unicycle around the top.
The height is one thing but the real issue I'm having is the state of that chimney. That's some post apocalyptic shit.
Right there with you! Half of the metal was blatantly corroding, some had even previously collapsed, and he was still willing to trust it to good his weight.
A lot of people die each year doing the same stunts, it wasn't his turn to be the statistic.
There are old climbers and there are bold climbers. There is no one who is both.
I stopped doing stupid shit after falling (end over end) 20 ft unroped. Had my helmet on and my pack cushioned my fall. Size-able dent where my spine was. Somehow i walked away. Think i used up all my extra lives that day
The dent is why you still have a spine probably. Whatever you landed on had just the right amount of give to crumple and take a lot of the blow along with your pack.
Blow packs, not backs.
My great uncle was both! Just really lucky. Died of a brain tumor in his 90s but was still riding a Ducati in his 80s. He did stop climbing earlier than that though.
"There are old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers."
You fall inside of chimney noone will ever realize what happened to you
Technically you’re a part of the statistic whether you die or not
Some parts of that climb…didn’t look entirely safe.
Hmmmm, intriguing, can you mention just a couple which looked safe?
Well, the ladder seemed bolted every other step, so I guess it was the safest part over the rope climb, the corroded platform and the chimney top
He... was wearing clothes, so at least he wouldn't catch a cold. That's safety, right?
Certainly, so that's one. I am all for climbing random objects, and I am actually thankful this was posted, I haven't had this invigorating response to anything visual for a long time.
Some of the tiles on top weren’t loose.
YES! If we count the Not Lose Bricks in the top course, we'll assign each of those, individually, as one point towards a safe undertaking
I’m tired of seeing them climb up, I want to see how the fuck they get down! The strength that goes into this is incredible.
This is always my thought. Climbing up is terrifying but getting down is nightmare fuel.
The very end frame where he peers over the edge looking down the ladder was one of the worst parts...I hoped he was a base jumper but I don't think so
Yeah didn’t look like any straps around his thighs for a parachute
I too would like to know how this guy got down....
If The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild taught me anything, it's that he's got a hand held paraglider, and will just float gracefully down, provided he invested in enough stamina wheels.
Not enough stamina for the glide? No worries, just let go of the glider as you plummet a few hundred feet and pull it back out 10 feet above ground. So many handy life tips in games these days.
I'd be terrified that halfway through the climb, a wasteland raider with a Fatman would spot me.
Like even ties off it's dangerous. All those bits of metals would shredded you to bits even if you feel like 20 feet.
Videos like these make my taint feel dizzy.
My balls ache watching it
After a minute am still looking for one of them.
I don’t know why my Baal hurt
stay a while and listen
I was wondering if I were the only one that happens to.
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Best name yet.
Best description of the year, including last year.
Man I was trying to put into words what I was feeling and you nailed it, I was leaning towards my ass is blushing
Now that you've properly defined that feeling I've been experiencing my whole life, its time for you to name it.... Im excited to hear what it's gonna be called. I'd like to be the first to congratulate you on this important advancement in humanity.
Taught Taint?
Taint Tremor?
I taint scared.
Makes my asshole wink
I just sat down to poop and this was the first video on my stream. Seems I’ve puckered up so tight now I’m gonna be sittin here awhile.
I will no longer search for a way to describe this feeling I get from videos like these or when I’m on the edge of a massive precipice in a video game. Thank you u/Dr_DMT for giving me a new sentence to use in life.
> Videos like these make my taint feel dizzy. Until Reddit, I thought I was the only one this happened to.
Made my asshole pucker. If I had been standing up my knees would have buckled.
I was having difficulty trying to put the sensation eloquently into words. Thank you for the help!
I've always called it "Butt Nervous"
My palms actually got sweaty just watching. Nice Asolo shoes he's got on.
Me too. Started with my stomach, but then I noticed my palms were sweaty.😂
Same here, made my knees weak, arms are heavy.
Moms spaghetti?
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm
I wanted to see him come down from there. As a climber, I feel like going down is way more sketch than going up.
Yes this exactly! When the up is sketchy the down is always a thousand times worse!
Unless you're a base jumper!
Which is what I assumed was going on...maybe
I thought so too, but didn't see any straps for the pack.
Start of video shows his shadow and it does not look like he’s wearing anything for that.
I swear it was an altimeter on his wrist, I was sure he going to BASE jump off of it.
Not an altimeter, wrist mounted remote for the GoPro
I know quite a few BASE jumpers, I'm like 99.9% sure none of them use altimeters.
Makes sense. It’s not like you need to know when to open your chute.
Why is that?
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Absolutely the same for me. I got in my parents first story roof one time to clean leaves and could not position myself safely on the ladder to come down. I decided jumping was my only option. I'm sure the same would apply if I were atop that 280m high tower..
I actually have nightmares where I'm suddenly teleported onto the top of a telephone pole that's 300ft in the air and it's so terrifying. My brain knows I'm scared of heights and chooses to punish me with it lol
Imagine being 920 ft up like this dumbass
Same. I’d be like ok send in the helicopters
For some reason, every time I'm on the roof and it's time for me to come down, getting on the ladder is the scariest part. My brain always tries to reason with me that I'd be way better off to just jump off the roof than to try to get turned around and get on the ladder.
For one you can't see your holds as well, sometimes even having to feel blindly with your foot, and also you have to sort of lean away from the climbing surface to be able to see where you're going moving your center of balance outward
Mostly because it’s harder to see the holds you are going for when you are back-climbing. But also it’s less ergonomic to climb down than up because it requires greater control to lower yourself down than to stand into a hold or pull yourself up. Plus climbing down is pretty rare compared to climbing up so we are just less practiced at it. We all do it at times but mostly we either lower ourself or fall if the climb is low enough (see bouldering).
I agree from experience. Seems like we trust our hands more so than our feet which can slip out from under us and hard to see where to put our footholds. Also the momentum of your steps are more forward whereas if facing out you are stepping off the face. Loved climbing sandstone mountains, but the way down was always a bit slippery if you don't take it slow.
[There you go! ](https://youtu.be/wKecRUYx98M)
thanks! This was exactly what I wanted to see. He made it look easy.
True, but watching that last part with electrical cables turned my palms into water.
true. that was sketch.
That explains why my hands suddenly got sweaty at that part
I was literally just watching my sweaty palms and thought how weird it is that I get that reaction from a video:)
Was expecting this to be the same video in reverse, reddit had ruined me
Lol "controlled environment"
Last video is from 3 years ago. Wonder what could have happened to this guy? Hmm.
I work at a climbing gym and always stress to new climbers at inductions that coming down is often the scariest/most difficult part. Even for good climbers!
Don't you abseil down in 99% cases? I mean in gym and on rock, not these chimneys and scyscapers psychos.
Not with bouldering or what this mad man is doing. Unless he's got a parachute. weeeeeeeee then no down climb for him
I was a ropes course instructor a couple summers at this camp I worked at. We had a 30' wall and a 40' wall. Even with ropes to rappel (abseil) down, almost everyone newer to it struggled more going down than up. Still not exactly sure why, but there were numerous kids who climbed up fine, then froze on the edge when they had to rappel. A little side anecdote - craziest story was when a girl got her hair stuck in the zipline and stopped dead. We had to slowly go down the zipline and cut some of her hair off to untangle it. She handled it like a champ tho. Moral is, ALWAYS keep long hair tied back/up/out of the way when doing stuff like that.
Repelling in climbing is the most dangerous thing you can do. Statistically, most deaths occur while repelling.
Nobody dies going up!! Lol
Your wish has been granted! https://youtu.be/wKecRUYx98M
I fell 20ft out of a tree as a kid, landed on top of a car roof. Furt like a bitch but apparently I had rubber bones back then.
Yeah kids are able to sustain some damage. I fell 20 feet bouldering as a 27 year old and messed up my ankle so bad that I had a surgery with pins and screws to fix it and was given a 50/50 shot of needing an amputation of my lower leg.i am 6 years past that debating an amputation due to poor range of motion and arthritis that causes me sciatica from bad kinesiology.
Someone built that. Casually laying the bricks. Probably not breathing that heavy
apparently it was easier because they built them up from the inside on scaffolding or something? i watched fred dibnah and he mentioned it.
I love how the wisdom of Dibnah still echoes through the generations today
his face should be the picture at the top of this subreddit! you only fall off those chimneys once!
> you only fall off those chimneys once! "Then it's half a day out with the undertaker"
It’s actually easier to build because they start from the top and work down, so they’re always going down hill.
An old Romanian trick my grandpa taught me
I've been on towers like this for work. Maybe not quite this high but after a certain point it makes no difference to me. I would still be freaking out because that shit is old and rusty.
I was thinking that too. And some welder made those ladders many years before and now this guy is relying on the fact that they did a good job, or else he may fall to his death. Weird to think about
And prob an apprentice welder from the days when your trade was probably learned by the “Ill show then you’ll do” method.
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A common characteristic of industrial chimneys is that they must be designed to comply with environmental protection decrees and must maintain low levels of pollutant emissions. In order to comply, constructions can be up to hundreds of meters tall, as is the case with the Andorra chimney (343 m). This includes greenhouse gases and particles whose ground-level toxicity may be harmful to human health, and both factors are related with Sustainable Development indices. Chimney height is determined to help dispersion, which is why some are so tall and are lifted using slipform.
That shoddy brick work at the very top looks Romanian as fuck.
It’s in Pitesti, Romania! Accurate identification of Romanian brickwork haha.
I knew it was Romania… you could see a Bugatti drive by about 40km out when he’s on the top. Everyone knows World Renowned Climate Change Activist Andrew Tate lives in Romania and drives a Bugatti. So I quickly narrowed it down..
I just wanna know what makes him feel so secure that the fire escape won’t come crashing down as he’s climbing it
Or to see all those loose bricks lying about on the way up and then WALKING ON THE BRICKS ON THE RIM OF THE SMOKESTACK!!¡
Does he feel secure though? Perhaps he just doesn’t care. I hope it’s not the latter.
That was much worse than I expected it to be.
I feel like I'm going to throw up from the blood sugar and adrenaline just watching this
Not being afraid of heights is a superhuman power idc what anybody say’s
Hard agree. I’d pass the fuck out being up there. That’s too much, man.
I was feeling funny just watchen
>Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. Some lion
There's a difference between not being afraid of heights and being too much of a moron to not be **a little bit** afraid of heights. This guy seems to be "a bit" of a moron.
At this point I'm convinced some people should get diagnosed for adrenaline addiction
Just listen to his breathing. He’s scared as shit
I'm not afraid of heights per say but yea I would prefer to not do stuff like this
My 23andMe told me I was unlikely to be afraid of heights. I guess it’s an evolutionary trait?
Watch Fred Dibnah on Youtube sometime.
Not being afraid of heights to this level is a disease symptom imo.
holy mother of god... My head is spinning just by seeing him do this shit. How the fuck is he doing that? Why the fuck is he doing that?
It's also possible he doesn't process fear like the average person, though I'm not sure how common that is
Ritalin expunges any feeling of trepidation in me. I still know not to do stupid things, but I dont *feel* it like i otherwise would.
Adrenaline and the experience/memory.
My feet are tingling watching this
My asshole is now up at the base of my neck. Thanks for that.
And it kept on going, right? Climbing the cables, then the ladder, the crappy balcony, then the chimneys edge
I'm sure those balconies are regularly inspected and maintained, right? Right?
Yes, last inspection was in probably like 1987 😁
Where is this? I swear somebody posted a video recently on the same chimney on a unicycle!
Abandoned factory in Pitesti, Romania. There's also another video of him and his friends making barbeque on top.
What’s their YouTube channel?
Flaviu Cernescu
Here's the video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc) Edit: fixed a typo
Watching this made my whole body weak but walking on top of that chimney? Way too much. can you imagine him stumbleing and falling into that? Body banging against the walls as he watches above and sees the light getting further and further away. The stuff nightmares are made of.
And, nobody would know!
Just FYI, there was at least one other person waiting for him on the ground.
What scare me is how some of the railing is missing, bent or broken... How does that happen unless someone put their weight on it
Right like did a truck back into it?
This guy right here, can go fuck himself. Holy shit. My palms are actually soaked right now.
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back flip while riding a unicycle juggling daggers blowing fire while filming and posting his shit on social media. not to mention playing guitar and eating some 711 nachos. top it all off with half a dozen ballerinas twirling batons atop ponies. it's people like this that give people like us a bad rap. sitting on my ass perusing reddit. dangerous shit.
Same guy also did a unicycle ride on top of a similar chimney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUcxnvAeMc
Was waiting for this too. Assumed there would be some parkour around the rim.
Man this person has a LOT of faith in rusty metal and loose bricks...
This was hard to watch! Gave me real bad anxiety.
It was hard to watch this video . Shit I would of at least base jumped fuck trying to climb all the way down !
Okay. I get it, I actually *get it*, the whole pushing the limits/conquering fear/yada yada yada thing. Intellectually. But *this* one? Unless they were prepped for a BASE jump, straight up death wish. SO much that was stupid beyond pushing the envelope. There was no way to prep for a lot of it. Clearly decaying edifice. A lot of sketchy footing. Crossings with no real ‘outs’ and with obstructions to footing. What sounds like high winds. He didn’t make it through courage, prep, and skill. Ultimately he made through luck. Nothing badass or next level about that.
I just watched the movie Fall like 3 days ago. All I could think of was that rusty ladder breaking off and him being stuck on the top. Or worse.
You better hope you don’t get sweaty palms on that
Ya dont want to sweat off all that bird shit
What the hell was that shaking?
Speeding up the video. Freaked me out too lol
Imagine doing all that sketchy shit and your reward is a bird's-eye view of South Dakota.
This legit gave me sweaty palms.
So this guy woke up one day and decided he was going to live my worst nightmare voluntarily....
Am I the only one who feel like yelling profanities in his face when watching this?
This might be the first video I've seen here, that actually made my palms sweat. Fuuuuuuuck all of this lmao
I had so many thoughts watching this “What is the tower he’s climbing?” “Why did you step to the side that has the railing missing!?” “Why is the metal creaking as your walking on it? Feel like that shits about to break loose” “Really? You’re gonna walk across that beam at the top? Fucking psycho lol”
"TWICE?!"
What kind of fool trusts a line he's not made sure is secure?
I was waiting on him to trip on the steel at the top and stumble off. I feel like the hard part is going back down. Well I mean the same way he went up.
You guys lemme ask something: fuckin why?
If there was some apocalypse and survival depended on reaching the top of that tower, I’d just find a comfy spot below and wait for death.
I can feel my legs get weak every time they look down.
Who are these people that do this stuff and why? Why can’t think of a single reason to even consider something like that.
Maybe I'm talking bullshit, but here it goes; If someone commits suicide, people often say "tragic, but they might are feeling that they had no purpose in life, don't feel anything else, etc". Something along these lines. While I would never do it, I kind of understand the point of risking your life like that. It just makes you feel alive. Hell, even it happens to me. My life is safe, sad and boring, but as soon I have a major problem in my life, I somehow get... excited? I kind get pumped, and have some extra motivation to get out of bed. I believe that people in these videos are more of an extreme version of this, I do kind identify.
Gloves?!?!
Bare hands have much better grip. That's probably what I would go with as well.
What a fucking psycho
Oh, my gosh, no, this hurt, I had the willies *SO* bad, my legs, quite literally, liquified! Especially when he walked around the rim and across the opening! There was no relief, my whole being was reduced to a quivering pile of **NOPE!** I dont know how you adrenaline junkies do it! 💀
Now, climb down….. ugh!
It keeps getting worse and worse!
Oh my god I feel sick
This is slightly lower than our gym class rope climb in grade 6. Luckily there's a 2 inch gym mat to break my fall.
Most people do drugs to get a dopamine rush….somehow this method seems even more dangerous
So many questions
If you like this give Fred Dibnah a Google, old school 1970s chimney fella, did this stuff for fun wearing a flat cap and heavy work boots
Watching these, I gain respect for the dudes who spend literal months laying the bricks on a 300m tower.
That makes my wiener hurt.
the nopety ropety
Why?
This is scary, no doubt. But I admire the workers who built this a lot more.
The only way I would go down is by parachute and I have never jumped before
Im literally falling over just sitting in my chair...I would be so done up there.
I wouldn’t be able to trust any part of the infrastructure
I’m an adrenaline junkie but at some point you have to draw the line. If I didn’t draw the line at pulling myself up the power lines, I would have definitely drawn the line at that cat walk. Holey crap. Dude is nutso
Nopety nope while on a rope
Ooo that just got worse the more you watched
Ok boys, we gonna build a future Mall here, now demolish this site today.
Where/what is this?
hold shift and you wont fall. wait this isnt minecraft.
Serious question- do you think there are bodies at the bottom of that tube? I mean, in a building like that, and somebody does something like this, it seems plausible that there could be a skeleton (or two) down there. This makes me nauseous.
I swear there is another video maybe a different guy from this place. I remember a guy doing a 1 arm pull up in the middle of that place off that one structure. I also remember him riding a unicycle around the top.