The college student was lambasted by public safety officials for putting emergency personnel and public safety at risk. Going by the name “Pro-Life Spiderman” on social media, DesChamps told ABC 7 News that he is happy about the outcome. Maison DesChamps decided to climb California’s tallest building to raise money for anti-abortion charities. The 22-year-old was promptly arrested by police after he completed the feat. Water so my view was nearly unobstructed.A weird and dangerous stunt took place in San Francisco on Tuesday with a man free climbing the 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower. Was hundreds of feet above any of the other buildings between me and the Way - the base of the tower was five blocks from the waterfront, but I Noticed was how much of the bay I could see with few buildings in the I grabbed a bottle of water, caught my breath, and picked up aįinisher's medal on a table overlooking the bay. Stairs and stopped my watch and checked the time - 20 minutes to climb The roof itself, but we'd reached the 61st and highest floor. Stairs kept going up, presumably to the mechanical penthouse and onto Reached the 61st floor I'd gone as high as I was going to go - the I passed people in the stairwell, and got passed by a couple of people.Īfter the 50th floor I started counting down to the 61st floor. Landings on two of the floors, and accepted the encouragement of the It was easy to get lost on the monotony of the climb Pretty sure I recognized a WeWork logo next to the badge reader on one That weren't yet finished or vague references to the tenants - I'm The stair and the shaft and see to the bottom.Įvery floor was identical, except for the sign marking the floor number,Īnd (on some floors) warnings not to enter the floor (possibly those Stair was in the shaft, or whether I could look down the cracks between I was climbing, or how high I was above the ground, or how stable the Kept my focus on the stairs in front of me, not thinking about the shaft Meant I was 10% up, the 12th floor was 20%, on up to the 30th floor. The numbers count up and marked off obvious fractions: the sixth floor Mountains, but neither were entirely applicable to climbing to the 61stĪbove the fifth floor, the stairs became regular: back and forth up aĬoncrete shaft, with a metal landing half-way between floors and aĬoncrete landing (doubling as the floor slab) at each floor. Stairs inside buildings (up to the seventh floor) and hiking up Walk, though I've never done anything quite like this so it was hard toĮstimate the right intensity. I set a pace I thought I could keep up, roughly equivalent to a brisk The height restrictions imposed by connecting to the (derelict) transit The first severalįloors were irregularly-spaced, with the staircase stretching andĬontracting to accommodate the extra height of the first floor lobby, and Threshold, and into the stairway to begin my climb. I stepped into the stairway, over the timing mats arranged on the Seconds, giving me the briefest opportunity to ponder the climb I wasĪbout to make, before giving me the go-ahead to begin. Timer rate-limited admission into the stairway to once every seven Leading all the way up to the top of the tower. The core of the building to the base of one of the three staircases Tower (in the shadow of the now-derelict brand-new transit center -Ĭlosed for emergency safety retrofitting after some of the beamsĬracked) through the exit doors into a concrete corridor leading into Hand-held metal detector wands, then we were led to the back of the I joined my fellow climbers going through a quick security check via
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |