High-rise alpinists
A mountaineering school has opened in Leningrad, a city as flat as a pancake, to train specialists to do repairs on inaccessible high-rise buildings, Tass news agency reports. It said that “indus v trial alpinism” was being taught to strong, athletic young men who would be called into service to scale factory chimneys, television towers, cooling towers, and monuments. The teams used traditional mountaineering methods to do their hazardous tasks. Experts had found that it was much cheaper and quicker to send them up on a length of rope than erect special scaffolding, Tass said. — Moscow.
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