[Texas Fossil]

That is an incredible view. I spent 2 weekends at heights up to 1350 ft. on what was at one time the tallest broadcast tower in the world (1450 ft. then).

That was an amazing view and incredible drop in temperature at that height. Can you imagine 2,080 feet?

At 64 I still own a climbing belt. It is often in my pickup.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Tall in stature, steep in price (to go up). ;-)

[Charles Henrickson]

incredible drop in temperature at that height. Can you imagine 2,080 feet?

I imagine there'd be a little nip in the air.

[JRandomFreeper]

You have my respect.

But I wouldn't do it anymore. I spent a lot of my youth hanging off towers and installing beam antennas that were MUCH larger and heavier than me.

Which was fine, before a)I figured out that I could die horribly and b) bifocals.

I get dizzy on a stepladder unless I take my glasses off. ;)

/johnny

[Army Air Corps]

What broadcast tower was that?

[mylife]

That’s way better than climbing the water tower.

[DManA]

The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai has a glass floor.
It takes a little nerve to step out on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0mR26gOMpI

[CrazyIvan]

I spent 2 weekends at heights up to 1350 ft. on what was at one time the tallest broadcast tower in the world (1450 ft. then).

Did it move much? I've done some mountain climbing and
didn't think a tower would be any big thing. Then I got up
one that was only a couple hundred feet. Dang thing swayed
like crazy! I felt like a rat on a fishing pole! Scared the
crap out of me.

[Jack Hydrazine]

IIRC, temperature drops 1 degree C for every 1,000 feet of gain in altitude.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Time to post those great tower vids again!

Russian kids playing on a 1,000 foot tower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxIzLgN6rGs

Climbing to the top of a 1768 foot tower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=2A_h2AjJaMw

World’s Highest Mast Climb at the Macau Tower - UM MBA — 1,109 ft Macau Tower mast climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelmxp8aGQo&feature=related

[Vendome]

Just added go my list of quick things to do before I dye/die LOL

[Erasmus]

My friend and I went up on the Stuttgart TV tower observation deck in 1997. Like hundreds of others, we penned our names on the stucco wall behind us.

"< Ladyfriend and I >:
Wir waren hier!
30.04.1997"

The total height from the ground to the tip of the antennas is about 714 feet, and the observation deck is around 500. Since it's on top of a large hill, it gives a great view of downtown, and the countryside in all directions.

Not very large by recent standards, but it was the first free-standing concrete TV mast; all others are descendants of that one.

[SuziQ]

Cool!! When we were in Tokyo in 2005, we went to the top of Tokyo Tower. It looks like a brightly colored Eiffel Tower. ;o) But it’s a great view, and I finally saw the graveyards I hadn’t noticed before at street level, because they’re behind walls.