A few weeks ago, I pos­ted a clip of a man fix­ing a satel­lite dish. I called it work at height, and I wrote it because the idea of climb­ing a lad­der to make a liv­ing made me shiver. The satel­lite dish engin­eer has noth­ing on the four man team keep­ing the Eif­fel Tower’s lifts in work­ing order:

The man has a safety har­ness, two cara­bin­ers attach­ing two ropes, moved altern­ately each time he des­cends three more rungs of the lad­der. He has a hel­met, gloves and all his tools are attached to his belt. And that’s one long, strong steel ladder.