I’m annoyed at the Shadenfreude type of comments. Sure what he did was highly risky. What we don’t know is why he did it. It might be for fame. But it might be to make a few bucks for his family. A man is dead, and knew he was about to die. It’s terrible.
It was not merely “risky” it was incalculably stooopid. The guy was not capable of doing more than two pull-ups (as proved in the video), ergo, it was literally insane to make his very life depend upon doing more than two pull-ups.
I don’t care why he did it. There is calculated risk and then there is utter idiocy. He falls in the latter category.