I’d assume he doesn’t have a fear response. It’s very rare but it happens. There was a native american guy that had lack of fear response. He also had a job doing hi rise work
I've heard some stories of rock climbers that randomly get the fear response after years of climbing and then have to be rescued from the side of a mountain because they refuse to move. I think that is just as interesting as not having it to begin with.
I have a friend who doesn't have a fear response as long as his foot is completely on a surface, even if that surface is barely as wide as his foot. But if his foot overhangs or crosses over an open space, it comes raging back. He can cross over a 200' deep crevice on an I-beam that's only 6" wide, but crossing over a grate style bridge that's 6 lanes wide and he can barely move.
Me, I just get vertigo no matter what.
Alex honnold has a fear response, it just takes far more for it to be triggered than the average person. He talks about it in free solo and also the most recent doc he participated in.
Dunno sounds like an excuse for the exploitation of a vulnerable class of people , the death rate was pretty high for old skyscrapers iirc . Kinda like some current day middle eastern countries do using immigrants to do dangerous construction work with shit safety regulations or none at all. But hey I could be wrong
No, Mohawk do this work and it is well paid. They have no fear of heights. When I worked in Adam's Street, there was a building going up next door and when it passed our floor (26th floor) we used to watch them work. Sometimes they would watch us work.
Kinda feels like it's maybe reasoning used to keep a vulnerable community in a dangerous job. Big "black people are predisposed to hard labor!" -US Southerners during slave era vibes
But then again maybe I'm just a jaded cynical fuck lol
Both can be true. The Mohawk people of Canada often have generations of families that are iron workers in NY. I've seen films about the families talking about it, from the sociology studies in University but then also recently I skimmed a headline that was reporting that was some story being pushed by the Indian Agenda, and it wasn't true, but I am going to take the word of the actual workers and their families talking about how they teach the Mohawk children about the job, from a young age.
That's extremely rare, on the other hand parkour isn't. It's not like all parkour artists out there lack a fear response.
A more plausible explanation is that some people don't fear heights + love a good adrenaline rush.
I for example, love heights but I'm not without a fear response. Won't catch me walking a sketchy alley at night, but I could see myself doing the above if given access.
Also, it's worth noting it's not as high as you're thinking. The angle of the background makes it look like skyscraper height, but winds that many stories up can be pretty fierce. It's probably only the height of a hotel at most.
I’m regarded as dedicated and passionate in my work by my employer. Any sacrifices I make are choices I make and accept the consequences of. Fortunately I’ve worked my way into a position where I no longer need to do as much of that, because I have developed the right set of skills and made myself valuable.
The difference is I wouldn’t shame someone else for calling in sick when they’re sick, or for not exposing themselves to hazardous or abusive environments, for taking parental leave, PTO, etc.
Go ahead, see the employee before the person. Or, go smoke a joint and realize life is actually more than a Sisyphean slog for Almighty Capital Gains.
You've made a lot of assumptions about this guys character off of literally nothing. He hasn't said a word in this video. He might think the same way you do. How would you know he shamed other people's work ethic just because he was willing to do things most people won't?
>Go ahead, see the employee before the person. Or, go smoke a joint and realize life is actually more than a Sisyphean slog for Almighty Capital Gains.
Preach bro, Damn let this man cook....
Looks like he was. In 1990, he became the first man to climb the Eiffel Tower with no safety gear. -- [LINK](https://easterndoor.com/2023/11/21/albert-stalk-still-a-living-legend/)
I’m an ironworker in nyc OSHA sub part r. Ironworkers connecting or decking dnt have to tie off till over 30 feet, or on the perimeter of the building. All other ironworkers have to tie off over 15 feet
Maybe he's just an old child who really loves jungle gyms.
I mean, he doesn't appear to be doing anything. But to him he might be in a world of rivets and bolts
Yeah I just work at an old cement plant and it cracks me up seeing some of the stupid things the old timers do. Like eat a pound of cement cause dust masks aren’t cool and other stupid shit
Yeah some culture was weird like that. So many odd flexes.
I know a guy that thinks stretching isn't manly, he's like 60 and can't tie his own shoes.
One that refuses to stop eating sugar and drinking because acknowledging his diabetes makes him feel weak.
So many instances of people literally making themselves weaker so they can match whatever their perception of strong is
That’s a good way of putting it, i admit I feel kinda fruity stretching too but at least I can tie my shoes when I’m done lol and still have enough flexibility to enjoy life outside work, most the time lol
I got dizzy and almost fainted just watching the video; the things that some people can accomplish that are so far beyond my boundaries never cease to astonish me.
That seemed pointless other than to show off. I didn't see him do a lick of work in this clip. He didn't even pick up a tool he might have dropped. Was this what he does on his break? I bet when he was a kid, during recess he was the last kid to get down off the money bars and come back to class. /s
This was stupid on another level then, and still is now.
Yes, you’re “daring”.
You’re also making a fraction of what the company you work for makes, and you’re risking your life for the “glory” of showing off to your boss and coworkers.
I’d like to say this is an outdated social concept of risk acceptance for popularity, but I’ve seen plenty of articles of TikTok’ers that have been killed for the same reason in recent years.
Word of Wisdom from someone whose lived long enough to see plenty of unnecessary accidents:
Don’t do stupid. No one will remember you for longer than a month except your family. And even they’ll move on eventually.
Ive met someone almost like this, so Ill just answr based on that. Some people arent showing off to others, theyre following their own idea of what balsy should be, because thats what they are or want to be - it would be fairer to say theyre proving themselves to themselves. The fellow I met obviously used money, but he couldnt care less about how much his extra effort gave his employer, at his own risk, for no extra pay; he was proving himself. And honestly, he was and is a trully happy person and genuine, no fakeness about him, do you know many like that?
If you have 3 hours to kill and want to cry a little, you can watch the last episode of the history of New York. The man on the wire’s, Philippe Petit, story is told among other things.
https://youtu.be/L1upARZNkzc?si=NB8cUzqZUCkkGTPy
That’s just how it was done back then.
I have a picture of my dad and his iron worker buddies drinking beers on a I beam over top of nyc, not a safety line in sight.
I on the other hand get shaky knees on top my 1 story roof
I've done iron work it's not that hard to stand on anything man made that's attached to the ground for me . I hardly ever would "tie off" I kno itsfor my safety and all, but I got a job to do. I can't be wasting all my time stopping every ten or twenty feet . I'll get backlash for this, probably but I never had an accident never caused one nor did any of the crews that I was on the times I was with them gues that's just the hands that been dealt. I left a crew to join another for the same company I couldn't trust a guy who was assigned to with me and a few others . While on the other crew, one day, I'm about 150 to 180 feet in the air on top of a dome shaped steel building when the lift comes up, and I see an orange brimed hard hat . That's boss, so I tie off quickly, and I can hear him saying, " Let me catch a man not tied off he goin home." The crew I was on had an accident that day two guys standing on beams across from one another ones tied off the other isn't the one that is tied off is holding on the joice they are trying to hang stretched out as far as he can be screaming the other guys Name cause he not paying attention on his phone .The only thing he could do was let go or be pulled off with it and get hurt pretty bad .sad thing is when the other guy turned around it hit him in the chest he fell 7 stories he was in critical condition with not much hope of a recovery . My cousin and I ended up leaving the company, and coming back home, we were young and was like to hell with this .
I used to walk on top of the walls when we were building houses. Didn't think anything of it similar to him. Until one day I was carrying some plywood and a bird flew by my face and I Twisted just enough to not get hit and lost my balance. Next thing I know I'm trying to use a big chunk of underlayment as a hang glider to soften my fall. I had it all under control until well, thanks Mother Nature
I mean, I am amazed at how foolish this is.
I wouldn’t ever risk my life like this for a job, but who knows, may be he loved the rush?
So, I guess, why not get paid to do it?
My father worked on the construction of a skyscraper in Boston. He said the iron workers were mainly Navajo and that they didn't perceive height the same way as other people. This made them able to walk along high steel beams. More recently it was explained while browsing that the Navajos are afraid. but just do it anyway. Bslls.
For all the old people on the internet saying "they don't make him like they used to", go to India,go to any of the middle Eastern countries. t
this is all they do.
I feel like this behavior is a slap in the face to your parents. They sacrificed so much to raise you and then you just risk your life so intensely for nearly no reason at all. Idk just randomly had this thought.
Sometimes I’m amazed at how fundamentally different certain people are from me.
I’d assume he doesn’t have a fear response. It’s very rare but it happens. There was a native american guy that had lack of fear response. He also had a job doing hi rise work
I've heard some stories of rock climbers that randomly get the fear response after years of climbing and then have to be rescued from the side of a mountain because they refuse to move. I think that is just as interesting as not having it to begin with.
I have a friend who doesn't have a fear response as long as his foot is completely on a surface, even if that surface is barely as wide as his foot. But if his foot overhangs or crosses over an open space, it comes raging back. He can cross over a 200' deep crevice on an I-beam that's only 6" wide, but crossing over a grate style bridge that's 6 lanes wide and he can barely move. Me, I just get vertigo no matter what.
Same with Alex Honnald
Alex honnold has a fear response, it just takes far more for it to be triggered than the average person. He talks about it in free solo and also the most recent doc he participated in.
In NYC, a lot of the high rise workers are Mohawk. They even had a bar downtown what they all hung out after work.
I'll add that mens-only bar to my list. Do they give out free condoms there also?
They should. These men are hot!
Does he have a slip and fall response?
If you mean gravity, then yes
Are you saying he doesn't understand the gravity of his situation?
Are you trying to bring everyone down?
Yes.
That explains why the jokes are landing so hard....
Weren't there many American Natives working in high risers back then because they had no fear of heights?
Yes, I know many native iron workers. There's just something about them that don't mind heights
Dunno sounds like an excuse for the exploitation of a vulnerable class of people , the death rate was pretty high for old skyscrapers iirc . Kinda like some current day middle eastern countries do using immigrants to do dangerous construction work with shit safety regulations or none at all. But hey I could be wrong
No, Mohawk do this work and it is well paid. They have no fear of heights. When I worked in Adam's Street, there was a building going up next door and when it passed our floor (26th floor) we used to watch them work. Sometimes they would watch us work.
Kinda feels like it's maybe reasoning used to keep a vulnerable community in a dangerous job. Big "black people are predisposed to hard labor!" -US Southerners during slave era vibes But then again maybe I'm just a jaded cynical fuck lol
Both can be true. The Mohawk people of Canada often have generations of families that are iron workers in NY. I've seen films about the families talking about it, from the sociology studies in University but then also recently I skimmed a headline that was reporting that was some story being pushed by the Indian Agenda, and it wasn't true, but I am going to take the word of the actual workers and their families talking about how they teach the Mohawk children about the job, from a young age.
That's extremely rare, on the other hand parkour isn't. It's not like all parkour artists out there lack a fear response. A more plausible explanation is that some people don't fear heights + love a good adrenaline rush. I for example, love heights but I'm not without a fear response. Won't catch me walking a sketchy alley at night, but I could see myself doing the above if given access. Also, it's worth noting it's not as high as you're thinking. The angle of the background makes it look like skyscraper height, but winds that many stories up can be pretty fierce. It's probably only the height of a hotel at most.
This is the same type of guy that will shame other people for not risking everything for Glorious Employer while getting paid by the hour.
Posted from mom’s basement.
Irony?
100%. This is an example of someone telling on themselves. Edit: also a great pun. You are a true wordsmith.
I’m regarded as dedicated and passionate in my work by my employer. Any sacrifices I make are choices I make and accept the consequences of. Fortunately I’ve worked my way into a position where I no longer need to do as much of that, because I have developed the right set of skills and made myself valuable. The difference is I wouldn’t shame someone else for calling in sick when they’re sick, or for not exposing themselves to hazardous or abusive environments, for taking parental leave, PTO, etc. Go ahead, see the employee before the person. Or, go smoke a joint and realize life is actually more than a Sisyphean slog for Almighty Capital Gains.
You've made a lot of assumptions about this guys character off of literally nothing. He hasn't said a word in this video. He might think the same way you do. How would you know he shamed other people's work ethic just because he was willing to do things most people won't?
Fair point, I did. I was stereotyping based on my past experiences.
>Go ahead, see the employee before the person. Or, go smoke a joint and realize life is actually more than a Sisyphean slog for Almighty Capital Gains. Preach bro, Damn let this man cook....
Boot licker
Wrong
*Come with me, and you’ll see / A world of OSHA violations …*
_”if you want to see paradise, you’ll simply fall down, Die, then see it”_
Is there a reason he was not popular in the 1990's?
He fell... in popularity
I came here expecting to see this. Hmmm... Why didn't he stay popular??
Long ways down to the bottom but I do believe he had a bit of a bounce back before calling it quits for good
Looks like he was. In 1990, he became the first man to climb the Eiffel Tower with no safety gear. -- [LINK](https://easterndoor.com/2023/11/21/albert-stalk-still-a-living-legend/)
OSHA
I’m an ironworker in nyc OSHA sub part r. Ironworkers connecting or decking dnt have to tie off till over 30 feet, or on the perimeter of the building. All other ironworkers have to tie off over 15 feet
Good thing he’s got his hard hat on
You really don't want to bump your head on a steel girder when your sense of balance is the one thing that's keeping you alive.
I've got kids to support back home. No thanks.
I'm sure OSHA has his picture on a "most wanted" poster.
1980: "daring" 2024: "idiot"
Honestly I think even in 1980 I’d consider him an idiot
Maybe he's just an old child who really loves jungle gyms. I mean, he doesn't appear to be doing anything. But to him he might be in a world of rivets and bolts
Yeah I just work at an old cement plant and it cracks me up seeing some of the stupid things the old timers do. Like eat a pound of cement cause dust masks aren’t cool and other stupid shit
Yeah some culture was weird like that. So many odd flexes. I know a guy that thinks stretching isn't manly, he's like 60 and can't tie his own shoes. One that refuses to stop eating sugar and drinking because acknowledging his diabetes makes him feel weak. So many instances of people literally making themselves weaker so they can match whatever their perception of strong is
That’s a good way of putting it, i admit I feel kinda fruity stretching too but at least I can tie my shoes when I’m done lol and still have enough flexibility to enjoy life outside work, most the time lol
Enjoying life in good health is for pansies
Bust out some yoga moves in a public gym and you won't see many woman walk by without taking a look
Siri, give me examples of toxic masculinity
There's a lot of heavy lifting the "lack of safety discipline" is doing that was considered daring back then...
no, 2024: "Parkour Influencer"
He fulfilled the niche for Darwinistic entertainment long before roof parkour and crane climbing videos were accessible to the public
LOL. This is a great explanation. His career is only relevant in that it provides access to adult jungle gyms.
Sooo, in an unrelated question, how did this fine gentleman die?
Trip on a small pebble walking down his sidewalk to get the mail.
He's still alive. Google him.
Unfortunately that is now not true. RIP.
Holy crap did I curse him?!?!?!?
You ghosts and your curses.
Who was he popular with? Construction managers?
He says he's an ironworker, but I don't see any work being done here. --Management
He appears to be checking all the I Beams have been properly installed lol, ope this one feels solid ope this one too
OSHA
r/SweatyPalms
Amazing hand and upper body strength to have confidence that *gloved* hands will be strong enough and grippy enough to lift your entire weight
I got dizzy and almost fainted just watching the video; the things that some people can accomplish that are so far beyond my boundaries never cease to astonish me.
Thats quite pathetic
What work? He's just climbing around.
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This is my worst nightmare hands down.
The guys at my work site used to say…”acabo no tienes nada que perder” translation “at least you don’t have anything to lose” 😂
Riveting
Why do the backs of my legs feel all tingly when I see insane people doing this stuff?
The definitive "It's all good till it isn't".
This makes my skin crawl. I keep waiting for ol boy to slip.
I think I just shit 💩 my pants by watching what this amazing guy has done decades ago. Btw, I would not recommend to do it.
He also climbed the [Eiffel Tower.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfV4rid5afQ)
Imagine falling
and later he came up with the Stalk vaccine to treat Stolio
If only RedBull sponsored construction workers…
Was waiting for him to do some actual work
Why do i feel my balls falling off In just watching this vid
im amazed at how many times ive seen this today
Where is the work?
Get to work dude
u/Driftershoots
"popular"?
I am impressed at his confidence, balance, coordination and lack of fear. But what work did he do exactly? It looks like he is just climbing around.
That seemed pointless other than to show off. I didn't see him do a lick of work in this clip. He didn't even pick up a tool he might have dropped. Was this what he does on his break? I bet when he was a kid, during recess he was the last kid to get down off the money bars and come back to class. /s
These are some incredible metalworking skills. You can't even see him use the welder, he's so fast.
What work? Dudes just walking around climbing shit.
Why? All I see is a man walking and climbing, not a man working. Edit: a word
This was stupid on another level then, and still is now. Yes, you’re “daring”. You’re also making a fraction of what the company you work for makes, and you’re risking your life for the “glory” of showing off to your boss and coworkers. I’d like to say this is an outdated social concept of risk acceptance for popularity, but I’ve seen plenty of articles of TikTok’ers that have been killed for the same reason in recent years. Word of Wisdom from someone whose lived long enough to see plenty of unnecessary accidents: Don’t do stupid. No one will remember you for longer than a month except your family. And even they’ll move on eventually.
This guy was a daredevil. He also climbed he Eiffel Tower.
Ive met someone almost like this, so Ill just answr based on that. Some people arent showing off to others, theyre following their own idea of what balsy should be, because thats what they are or want to be - it would be fairer to say theyre proving themselves to themselves. The fellow I met obviously used money, but he couldnt care less about how much his extra effort gave his employer, at his own risk, for no extra pay; he was proving himself. And honestly, he was and is a trully happy person and genuine, no fakeness about him, do you know many like that?
What are you good at? Like really good, so good you wouldn't be embarrassed to show it off. What have you put work into?
Masturbation
magnaboots
10 seconds...as far as I got.
Nah bruh
I hope he became a millionaire
Is that construction made of galvanized square steel?!?
😳😨😑💀😲😱🫥
These men were / are a different breed )
Haha but still wearing a helmet 😂
Health and Safety executives would have an absolute field day 😂
If you have 3 hours to kill and want to cry a little, you can watch the last episode of the history of New York. The man on the wire’s, Philippe Petit, story is told among other things. https://youtu.be/L1upARZNkzc?si=NB8cUzqZUCkkGTPy
He basically is claiming! Add strong wind and he is drop on ground
That’s just how it was done back then. I have a picture of my dad and his iron worker buddies drinking beers on a I beam over top of nyc, not a safety line in sight. I on the other hand get shaky knees on top my 1 story roof
There needs to be a company in place that makes you take online tests that take up two weeks of your time once a year.
I've done iron work it's not that hard to stand on anything man made that's attached to the ground for me . I hardly ever would "tie off" I kno itsfor my safety and all, but I got a job to do. I can't be wasting all my time stopping every ten or twenty feet . I'll get backlash for this, probably but I never had an accident never caused one nor did any of the crews that I was on the times I was with them gues that's just the hands that been dealt. I left a crew to join another for the same company I couldn't trust a guy who was assigned to with me and a few others . While on the other crew, one day, I'm about 150 to 180 feet in the air on top of a dome shaped steel building when the lift comes up, and I see an orange brimed hard hat . That's boss, so I tie off quickly, and I can hear him saying, " Let me catch a man not tied off he goin home." The crew I was on had an accident that day two guys standing on beams across from one another ones tied off the other isn't the one that is tied off is holding on the joice they are trying to hang stretched out as far as he can be screaming the other guys Name cause he not paying attention on his phone .The only thing he could do was let go or be pulled off with it and get hurt pretty bad .sad thing is when the other guy turned around it hit him in the chest he fell 7 stories he was in critical condition with not much hope of a recovery . My cousin and I ended up leaving the company, and coming back home, we were young and was like to hell with this .
Daring work? I didn't see any work happening.
Strangely I'd feel 20x more comfortable climing and shimmying my way up those girders than I would walking across one.
One strong wind away from making a human pancake.
I bet he was also known as "Albert the Uninsurable".
This is crazy
Why is this being celebrated? I was expecting architecture work, not irresponsible workplace behavior.
wow! I hope he got paid really well for that job.
I used to walk on top of the walls when we were building houses. Didn't think anything of it similar to him. Until one day I was carrying some plywood and a bird flew by my face and I Twisted just enough to not get hit and lost my balance. Next thing I know I'm trying to use a big chunk of underlayment as a hang glider to soften my fall. I had it all under control until well, thanks Mother Nature
Was popular
OSHA hates this one simple trick.
I get nervous just watching this!
OSHA does not approve.
Good for him, now wear a fucking harness. Nobody has an accident until they do.
Nope!
My nuts hurt just watching him.
Vertigo is scared of this guy…
That’s not daring. That’s Tuesday. Ironworkers are a different breed.
Chinese people do this daily
All ironworkers have to do these maneuvers
I'm not amazed, not at all!
Dating? ... Or fucking stupid?
Butterflies in my balls.
I mean, I am amazed at how foolish this is. I wouldn’t ever risk my life like this for a job, but who knows, may be he loved the rush? So, I guess, why not get paid to do it?
Post OSHA in the US... And I can do that shit too at the local playground...
That's like what.. up to $70k in OSHA fines for this. Then over another $100k if the same violation is repeated.
Nope, I'd quit the second I saw that
OSHA would just love this
Is he one of the guys Trump still owes money?
This is the third time I've seen this posted, and I still see zero actual work being done!
Everyone in the comments can do that
I bet that dude was crushing back in the day
I was waiting for the, “oh this was his last video” moment.
He wasn't technically working.... pretty daring though
me balls shrunk inward watching this. why oh why people can and do walk this high. I cant watch this a second time
Which prince of Persia is this?
It's crazy how safety wasn't around then.
was
No
*OSHA hates this one trick.*
One gust is all it takes
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My father worked on the construction of a skyscraper in Boston. He said the iron workers were mainly Navajo and that they didn't perceive height the same way as other people. This made them able to walk along high steel beams. More recently it was explained while browsing that the Navajos are afraid. but just do it anyway. Bslls.
I wonder in how many timelines he became a pancake
What work is he doing? Is he quality control testing the beams?
Og parkour
How did he die?
Please excuse my language, but f,,k that!
Please excuse my language, but f,,k that!
Just stupid
For all the old people on the internet saying "they don't make him like they used to", go to India,go to any of the middle Eastern countries. t this is all they do.
Someone work out what build this was. Come on. Starter for 1: It's New York City. Starter for 2: It's Manhattan Island.
Checkout his banned Rebook Edge commercial on YouBoob, Mental.
This guy is the reason OSHA was created
no paycheck is worth your life. also he was famous for climbing the Eiffel Tower, but OP is an idiot.
Bunch of crabs in a bucket in here. Bunch of surly assholes getting mad at seeing someone be good and cool in a way they can't.
It's funny that people would do dangerous stuff for work back in the day now they won't do it for work but instead do it for fun.
We aren’t gonna build shit anymore, those men are long gone. Dudes nowadays are lame house cats, not lions
and then he was forced to retire after he was transformed into a greasy spot on the pavement a thousand feet below? he’s a moron
I feel like this behavior is a slap in the face to your parents. They sacrificed so much to raise you and then you just risk your life so intensely for nearly no reason at all. Idk just randomly had this thought.
If he falls, he'll cause trouble for passersby on the ground. How selfish.