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I'm glad this stops before he has to negotiate the lip of the chimney as I was already getting the willies, having never fully recovered from watching John Noakes climbing Nelson's Column on Blue Peter all those years ago,

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There is also the mast on the Royal Navy land based training base, HMS Ganges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSuZXlUxwbk

ladder runs out 15 feet from the top - oh thank God he's made it

"All that's left is shunning up the mast" - sorry, what? I'm just going to hide behind this sofa

Watching this was like watching some kind of horror film where society fore. Keep watching to the end where one of the alumni calmly explains how there was at least one death and serious injury! He did note that going up to the highest section was voluntary, at least..

Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZ-h70IK9s . And the camera-man presumably did the same thing first, with camera in tow...

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