Climbing huge chimney in Pitesti

This video shows Flaviu Cernescu "free solo" climbing the second tallest structure in Romania:
Chimney at CET Pitesti SUD (280m)

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+5 1. urbaneagle commented 9 years ago

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+4 2. Malakyte commented 9 years ago

That's one hell of a way to get a lot of views on YouTube (and snotr!) >:)
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+3 3. se0067 commented 9 years ago

And the daily Darwin-award goes to....
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+19 4. theshmoo commented 9 years ago

and yet again....sweaty hands and scared just by watching :O
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+7 5. isitmeor commented 9 years ago

Holy Molly, the crossing over those rusty rails on top is way over my daily adrenaline intake. BTW at the end he said: "If there were 5 meters more (of cable), I would have collapsed (from effort)". Me too, me too :D
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+1 6. dfinit commented 9 years ago

Does your mother know??? :)
Anyways, impressive. Respect. I've got vertige just by looking.
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+6 7. martynbiker commented 9 years ago

Im sorry but i had to stop watching half way across the top ironwork...i was getting cramp in my arsecheeks from all the clenching!
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0 8. dogfish commented 9 years ago

Why did they build this 280m chimney? :S
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+6 9. isitmeor commented 9 years ago

#8 CET Pitesti SUD is a 136 MW thermal power station located in the south of Pitesti (CET = Centrala Electro Termica, SUD = south). Today the power station is using mostly natural gas & very little coal but my guess is that when it was built it was designed (like many others) for coal only (cheap and rather abundant in Romania) and the heavy fumes from coal needed a taller chimney otherwise during winter, when the station was at full capacity, the city would be covered with smog.