They said he couldn’t climb it.
The telecommunications tower stood in the centre of the field. It was easy enough to park and hop over the fence, but the actual climb was something else. Naturally, they didn’t want anyone climbing it and had constructed it with that in mind. So many of his online fans had said that getting to the top of the tower in question was not possible. He would show them!
After the long stretch up from the base to start with, he negotiated his way around the anti-climb spikes. These things were really tricky. After that, it had been a very long haul moving up the steel lattice, hand-over-hand until he reached the top. Of course, once there, out came the phone. This would be the selfie to beat all selfies. He held the camera up high enough to show the full height of it. ‘Click’, ‘click’, and another ‘click’; just to make sure he had fully captured the moment. He spent a couple of minutes choosing the best one to send.
He was posting his great achievement online when it happened. It was only a brief gust of wind that did it. He was now laying on his back at the foot of the tower, completely unable to move. He was thinking about what damage he may have done to his body when the first ‘ping’ came. He was lying on his phone, unable to get to it, but he recognised the chime. It was a ‘like’.
Then, they came in… faster and faster.
They said he couldn’t climb it.
The telecommunications tower stood in the centre of the field. It was easy enough to park and hop over the fence, but the actual climb was something else. Naturally, they didn’t want anyone climbing it and had constructed it with that in mind. So many of his online fans had said that getting to the top of the tower in question was not possible. He would show them!
After the long stretch up from the base to start with, he negotiated his way around the anti-climb spikes. These things were really tricky. After that, it had been a very long haul moving up the steel lattice, hand-over-hand until he reached the top. Of course, once there, out came the phone. This would be the selfie to beat all selfies. He held the camera up high enough to show the full height of it. ‘Click’, ‘click’, and another ‘click’; just to make sure he had fully captured the moment. He spent a couple of minutes choosing the best one to send.
He was posting his great achievement online when it happened. It was only a brief gust of wind that did it. He was now laying on his back at the foot of the tower, completely unable to move. He was thinking about what damage he may have done to his body when the first ‘ping’ came. He was lying on his phone, unable to get to it, but he recognised the chime. It was a ‘like’.
Then, they came in… faster and faster.