{"id":9149,"date":"2010-09-18T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2010-09-18T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T14:31:53","slug":"stairway-to-heaven-climbing-towers-engineers-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/18\/stairway-to-heaven-climbing-towers-engineers-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairway to Heaven (Climbing Towers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Strange-News\/Video-Of-Transmission-Workers-Scaling-1768ft-Tower-Becomes-Internet-Hit\/Article\/201009315734486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9150\" title=\"Stairway to Heaven (Climbing Towers)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Stairway-to-Heaven-Climbing-Towers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A six-minute video showing transmission workers climbing a pylon has become a huge viral hit on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Called <strong>Stairway to Heaven (Climbing Towers) <\/strong>it was shot using a helmet camera and follows two engineers as they scale a 1,768ft pylon, which is taller than the largest skyscraper in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of the helmet cam gives the perspective of the climbers and also highlights how they have to make do without a safety harness, whilst also carrying a tool bag weighing up to 30lbs.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3wsPd5U8mBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3wsPd5U8mBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The video was originally posted on an industry website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonlineengineer.org\">TheOnlineEngineer.org<\/a>, before surfacing on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Different versions have been removed due to a copyright claim, although the popularity is such that it has been reposted many times.<\/p>\n<p>(If the above video doesn&#8217;t work, you can watch it at Sky News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Strange-News\/Video-Of-Transmission-Workers-Scaling-1768ft-Tower-Becomes-Internet-Hit\/Article\/201009315734486\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonlineengineer.org\">TheOnlineEngineer<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonlineengineer.org\/TheOLEBLOG\/\">Blog post explaining the video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-minute video showing transmission workers climbing a 1,768ft pylon has become a huge viral video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}