Salisbury Cathedral: Breathtaking video from tallest spire...OMG!

[Joe Newton]

Almost as tall as the ash tree I dismantled yesterday morning.

[TGB]

Neat short and a nice view over the town. Not the place you want to be saying, "Damn! We also needed the cross-head screwdriver." as I recall, there was a 'Blue Peter' episode with John Noakes helping to change a flight beacon atop a structure. Only after topping-out, did the pair of them discover they'd left the new one on the ground. So they had to do it again.

 

Huge hand-hold and somewhere to put your feet. Providing you have a head for heights... an easy climb.

[TGB]

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Huge hand-holds and somewhere to put your feet. Providing you have a head for heights... an easy climb.

 

Just in case you're wondering if that statement is innocent bravado. I still climb when I can but not as much as I used to. I've also done a fair bit of free climbing, no ropes, no anchors, just a pair of rock shoes and a chalk bag. Highest I've been, where if I'd fallen I'd have hit the deck before hitting the crag was 273m. Just enough time to think, "Maybe that hand-hold wasn't that secure after all..?"

Edited December 20, 2014 by TGB