28.02.2016

Death Wish in paradise

Spotted by a reader in Mexico a man working from a crude suspended platform – or rather from alongside a platform.

The Las Brisas resort has featured in previous Death Wishes and one assumes has always managed to get away without a serious incident? But working like this is working on short odds.

The platform is suspended from ropes circling the turret and simply tied onto the guardrails of the homemade platform. Getting it into position must have been something of a challenge? The working height appears to be around 10 metres or so.
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Hanging on the wall 10 metres up

In order to reach part of the turret structure where it joins the wall, either to paint or fill, he has climbed out of the platform and is clinging to the wall like a rock climber. He has tied one of the ropes around his waist as a crude form of harness, but that might do him as much mischief as the fall if he should take a plunge.
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A closer look and you can see his makeshift harness and just how precarious his hold is

If he did fall it would certainly be a vacation memory for those watching which they might struggle to get out of their minds.
Definitely one for our Death Wish series.