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Keep up to dateIf your workers are that good at shinning up a rope, what's the need for scaffolding?
If you follow the gaze of the guy atop this 20-storey building, you'll see his althetic workmate halfway up, clinging to a rope. Steve Corbett, who spotted this while on secondment in Libya, exclaims: “Yes, that is his working platform at high level… and yes, that rope is his only access to that working platform!”
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