Life at the Top: What a window washer sees (2013)(newyorker.com)
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Life at the Top: What a window washer sees (2013)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/04/life-at-the-top?hn=true
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A few months after that article was published, the scaffolding mentioned in the first paragraphs, custom-made (3 years to design and build) for the Hearst Tower in New York, broke and the window cleaners had to be rescued:
http://www.businessinsider.com/collapsed-scaffolding-at-top-...
What I see of them, from my climate-controlled office 250 feet above the ground: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst/13363249083/