Fear of heights? Not for this job

China Daily via Reuters

Cleaners prepare to clean windows outside the 101st floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center March 26, 2012. More than 30 workers on the window-cleaning team of the skyscraper work in pairs every day. The cleaners have to obtain a license for high-rise operations and must not have high blood pressure or a fear of heights. They are not allowed items which could fall, such as cell phones or wristwatches, and must stop working in heavy winds.

China Daily via Reuters

Window cleaners outside the 101st floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center March 26, 2012.

China Daily via Reuters

Yang Bo cleans a window outside the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center March 26, 2012.

 

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I don't mind being up that high ....

As long as there is a mountain underneath me ....

    Reply#1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:40 AM EDT

    Why are they wearing hard hats? Nothing's going to drop on them the hats won't protect them from a fall from that height. I wondered the same thing about WWII Kamakaze pilots wearing helmets.

      Reply#2 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:08 PM EDT

      Pigeons

        #2.1 - Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:50 PM EDT
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