Gear for climbing a building
What gear do I need to climb buildings? Can I use a suction cup lifters? Or is it a safety risk, since this piece of equipment was clearly not developed to climb buildings?
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There is a whole industry of commercial rope access for maintenance etc and the techniques used are related but not identical to recreational climbing and mountaineering. There are also a few individuals who climb buildings for recreation/self promotion.
In the commercial case it is usually more about descending from an well established top anchor rather than actual climbing as such.
One problem is that climbing a building without permission will probably be illegal.
Alain Robert is famous for unauthorised climbs of public buldings but he tends to 'free climb' and it has to be emphasised that this is both illegal and very dangerous. Even he tends to choose structure which are massive, boring ladders.
Equally climbing a bilding is likely to be failry tedious as you would want to be absolutely certain that it was within your capabilities (or you will die) and it will just be executing the same moves again and again until you get to the top or fall off so I'm not sure thre is really that much to reccomend it.
And as it has now been done before there isn't even that much celebrity to be gained.
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