THE VIDEO SHELF · rooftopping
Shanghai Tower (650 meters)
A POV video of climbers illegally scaling the 650 m Shanghai Tower while it was under construction, filmed on a helmet camera.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a gripping and vertigo-inducing watch that put rooftop climbers on the map.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- On The Roofs
- Topic
- rooftopping
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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For those who managed to miss the "Shanghai Tower" video from 2014 - this is what basically put this guy and his friend on the radar. An absolutely fantastic watch. Incidentally, it also helped putting some much deserved light on N'to and Worakls, whose Trauma …
huhtenberg on Hacker News · 2018-02
In A daredevil climber risking his life for breathtaking viewsAnother heartstopper is this POV video of two Ukrainians illegally scaling the 650-meter Shanghai Tower while it was still under construction, which gets really nuts when they start climbing the construction crane at the very top: [VIDEO]
pimlottc on Hacker News · 2015-03
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