All milling around at the cliff edge waiting to drag each other off, no one hooked up, I mean, when I was 25 I would have just done and enjoyed the adrenaline, but nowadays, yup, agree a WHOLE lot of nope.
Really impressive flying. I had a wonderful experience in the early 1970s of flying much larger USAF Sikorsky H-3s search and rescue helicopters, with two pilots, a flight mechanic and two pararescue guys, for 2 and a half years in Iceland out of Keflavik Airport. Watching these guys landing on the really small helipad by the lighthouse is simply incredible. Absolutely fantastic to watch! Makes me wish I was a few decades younger...
I spent a couple of months in Iceland in 1984. It is Very windy there all the time. You’d get tired of the wind if you aren’t from a windy place. I dare say you wouldn’t want to spend a month at this lighthouse.
@@ihelpdogs Most of the materials came from the forest that used to be there, as well as a concrete plant built there during WWI, since dismantled and not used for any sort of walls or railings anywhere.
Have been there many times -- in flight sim. It's my favorite destination because of the challenge. Don't know if the pilots that go here are fantastic or its easier in real life than it looks but it's exceedingly difficult in flight sim even with VR. Anyway, nice vid, enjoyed.
Great Job you guys! Really enjoyed the video. Thanks. Never even heard of this place before until I was looking at the new scenery being developed by Propstrike Studios for Xplane flight simulator. Now I know where Thridrangar Lighthouse is located, LOL 🙂
Why is that terrible elevator music playing the whole damn time? Makes the video unwatchable unless you mute it. Not everything needs cheesy looping hold music over it.
Phantastic job! You have my deep respect. I recently listened to an audiobook from Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. In the story one woman and three men are brought to Thridrangar with a helicopter in order to do some repairs on the lighthouse. Their names are Heida, Helgi, Toti (!) and Ingvar (!), sorry if spelled wrong. Maybe your video helped for inspiration ;-)
This is amazing. I'd totally live there, but the helipad and walkway are super sketchy. But.....what does it look like inside? It'd be neat if it had a lower level dug into the rock. I just need a studio apartment setup, a generator, a mini fridge, my cat, and a grill.
Is it too much to ask for some railings between the helipad and lighthouse? Or maybe they're worried the maintenancs guys would spend too much time leaning on them....
All that work to build a lighthouse there and they couldn't be bothered to install some type of safety railings around the outside at some point. One wrong step and you are falling to your death.
OMG! exciting! thank u! so much to see but interested in the sole persons who choose to work there..is there a story? this lighthouse beats them all for me...it whispers of the many persons who have lived there..did the find the isolation difficult? it is beyond beautiful but can imagine the outlook and the noise while stormy! no walking in the sleep, eh!
They sailed with all the materials there, and man by man they climbed up to the top (about 34 meters high) and with a chain they pulled all of the materials from the boats to the top so they could begin construction :) nafar.blog.is/users/0a/nafar/img/_ridrangar_15.jpg
They sailed with all the materials there, and man by man they climbed up to the top (about 34 meters high) and with a chain they pulled all of the materials from the boats to the top so they could begin construction :) nafar.blog.is/users/0a/nafar/img/_ridrangar_15.jpg
@@arnarragnarsson3383, Oh I believe it was possible. Just think how many building structures and skyscrapers were built back then without the use of Helicopters.
The first helicopter was made by Igor Sikorsky in 1939. So it could've conceivably been there to lift materials to the top from a boat below, but it appears Arnar seemingly has the 411. Good old fashioned man-ness and grit.
well i mean there were helicopters in development but not in general use around the world. look at the Focke Wolf FW 61. and the US used helicopters at the end of the war to rescue downed pilots in china or Burma i think it was
Why did they have to work 36 hours straight with no rest? Why weren't they allowed to sleep over? Seems that being sleep deprived in such a dangerous location is foolish.
because none of this is real dude. You're using your brain, it doesn't make sense because it's not real. Why do ships need lighthouses on clear sunny days? They don't.
@@monelleny They sailed with all the materials there, and man by man they climbed up to the top (about 34 meters high) and with a chain they pulled all of the materials from the boats to the top so they could begin construction :) nafar.blog.is/users/0a/nafar/img/_ridrangar_15.jpg www.heimaslod.is/images/thumb/2/29/Fari%C3%B0_upp_ke%C3%B0juna_%C3%A1_%C3%9Er%C3%ADdr%C3%B6ngum.png/300px-Fari%C3%B0_upp_ke%C3%B0juna_%C3%A1_%C3%9Er%C3%ADdr%C3%B6ngum.png www.heimaslod.is/index.php/Sj%C3%B3mannadagsbla%C3%B0_Vestmannaeyja_1966/_%C3%9Er%C3%ADdrangavitinn_og_bygging_hans I hope you can translate.
I was wondering that myself.. "Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse was constructed during 1938 and 1939.[4] It was originally built by hand without machinery, and it was accessible only by scaling the tallest of the three rocky stacks, whose top is 36.576 metres (120 ft) above the sea." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti_Lighthouse
my question though is like, do people live in these lighthouses??? and if not did they ever? like when it was constructed surely somebody stayed behind, and if so what would that even be like @-@
They sailed with all the materials there, and man by man they climbed up to the top (about 34 meters high) and with a chain they pulled all of the materials from the boats to the top so they could begin construction :) nafar.blog.is/users/0a/nafar/img/_ridrangar_15.jpg
