If you even make it to the ground alive, think there's been some studies that suggest that people falling from great heigths can die off the extreme fear/stress before the impact kills them. :hmmm:

then again there are stories of people surviving free falls from heights which make 1700 ft look like a small ledge.

Lots of those stories are documented on this website

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html

What is the rate of heart attacks in the industry?

True, IIRC the highest one is 11km or something like that. Stewardess blown out of an exploding plane, survived with some bruising and few broken bones. :doh: (Think that was in Guinness World Record 200something)

Looks an interesting place to base jump from....but yes, sod doing that. A parajump out of the back of a plane, I'd consider that yes, but not going up that, no thanks. Standing on the platform at the top of Dungeness lighthouse was bad enough (it really felt like you could touch the sky :doh:) and that's a pebble compared to that monster.

That'd be my kind of work :yeah:

Nice, solid foot and hand holds all the way and you even get paid for it!

Saw this video over at QRZ.com the other day. Gives me the willies.

My freinds father was a climber for commercial towers. He passed away when a tower he was climing, reletavly short at around 100 feet failed and the safety tether pulled him down with the failed section and it landed on top of him.

:oops:

My granddad had to climb up 200-300 foot radio towers in the Arctic while he was in the Air Force (he worked on the DEW Line).

Me on the other hand gets scared out of my mind climbing a ladder on to the roof of my 1 story home... :haha:

The wind chill on a 200ft tower in the Arctic must be quite something!

I don't think you've thought this all the way through. These guys don't have parachutes. Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, is probably safer than this. :har:

Lighthouses arent a problem for me, those are usually solid looking, and feeling, structures. Steel tower like that one, though, are more akin to being on a swingset. Then again, I enjoy being out on the sea in a storm so I guess logic doesnt really apply as to why I find this scary.

Edit: Speaking of awesome lighthouses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RSryuJAwE

Parachutes still have to open to work, there there is that little issue with AA fire and hot DZ's.

Actually though tower climbing doesn't even make it into the top 20 dangerous jobs. That puts it behind policeman, fireman, fisherman, and linesman.

Oy, now there's a commute :/

I'm bad enough cleaning gutters.

Hell no. Too acrophobic. That made me dizzy just watching it.:doh: