According to the AP, it took the activists six hours to scale the cables. You can read more here.

Sebastian Scheiner / AP
An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man looks out of a bus window, with a reflection of Greenpeace activists climbing on a light rail bridge, at the entrance to Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 16. Five Greenpeace activists have hoisted themselves up the cords of a high suspension bridge at Jerusalem's entrance, unveiling a banner calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt a planned coal-fired power plant.


These people are nothing but environmental terrorists and should be arrested and thrown in jail. They were protesting off the coast of Greenland and hoisted themselves onto a oil rig over the water protesting drilling there. I would call that trespassing and endangering the lives of the workers on these rigs. They need to get a job or crawl under the rocks where they came from.
This is simply the most moving photo I have seen in a long time. It made me gasp at the texture, the subject and I don't give a rats butt what is going on, there is something spoken in the image entirely on it's own, there is a message of tremendous trust, hope, honesty and faith in this image. Thank you.
Yes, c-exactly what I was thinking. That and it's a reflective that actually works and has nice lines:)
For the photo, yes, great imagery. For greenpeace, why don't they go protest the nuke plant in Iran?
Agreed, great imagery. Why dosen't greenpeace protest the nuke plant, in Iran?