[cmccuist]

It seemed to me like Phillipe Petite "peaked" at just the exact moment in time to pull off the feat. I mean he had been planning and working his plan for a couple of years. Then after narrowly avoiding the gaurds and finally getting the wire in place just after dawn, he stepped out onto the wire and stayed out there for 45 minutes. There may not ever be another man that, put in that situation, at a precise moment in time who is mentally and physically prepared for what he did. The towers weren't completely in operation or occupied at the time, so that helped him get his gear installed.

He traversed the wire 8 times!! He acutally layed down on the wire at one point. I get dizzy climbing up and down these towers at the various refineries I work at and they have caged ladders and are typically only a couple hundred feet tall.

This guy was on a 1/2" cable 1,100 feet up! How can this ever be duplicated? Will someone build two towers ever again this high and close together?