Dude had nothing below him but a quarter mile of drop. Made it 20 floors knowing the whole time one slip was lights out, in his work clothes, under the most extreme circumstances imaginable, maybe witnessing people falling off the building around him. Even the most experienced rock climber would struggle to repeat that performance. Remarkable guy.
in that circumstance you have to slide very slowly and probably in the order of 4-5 centimeters at a time, perhaps it's even too much, imagine the pain in your leg muscles after just some floors doing that
@@breakingpieces7715I actually can’t imagine. My legs are shaking and ready to give out after 20 minutes of sex…….and that certainly isn’t shimming down, using leg strength to keep held up between two beams.
Survivors from the north tower stated that the whole building shook as the south tower collapsed. Safe to say trying to achieve that unbelievable feat while the building itself is shifting would be almost impossible. It's truely hard to imagine. The mans will to survive was incredible, It's so sad he didn't make it. What ever was driving him to do that was for sure worth living for. He really deserved to live.
I was thinking about that too but anything past 30 floors idk if the human body, even with adrenaline could make it climbing down. Like u said shifting building might make that difficult.
i think i would try to just do my best to focus on each move completely and not take eyes of the inside of the column... or atleast id like to think I would be able to do that
I am surprised no one talks about Pasquale Buzzelli who was in the stair case of the North Tower when it collapsed. He talked about how he looked up and saw the floors collapsing above him then threw himself in the corner of the stairs and fell 29 stories. Amazing story of survival.
I remember his story. I remember thinking that out of all of the spots he could've chosen, he chose the one spot that didn't get touched. Miracle. Absolute miracle. His wife was so relieved when he came home & knocked on the door.
If true imagine how angry and frustrated he must have been if there was a cracked/broken window just the next column over and he couldn’t get to it,was he trying to get down the whole way to the bottom or just far enough to stand a chance of being rescued from fireman who might have seen him while inside the building
for sure if he dad a tool to broke the window of the floors below the crash he could have survived he is amond many persons which i feel deep moral torture for not having the chance to survive may they rest in peace @@Makeitso2023
Im actually struggling to imagine what it would feel like to be shimmying down the side of the twin towers. I think my heart would explode or id shake so uncontrollably that id just fall.
You'd be amazed at what you could do if the situation truly called for it. There's a good chance that you'd dissociate and even after, if you survived, not remember doing it or at least feel like it was someone else while you watched from first person.
If he had survived, he could’ve been the only person to witness what was actually happening. No one above the impact zone lived to tell what it was like in the 106 floor conference room. They had over 100 people in there. Granted, he’d have a horrific story to tell, possibly heart wrenching, but it would be important information for people who had no idea what happened to their loved ones. It’s a shame that he didn’t escape. I heard that some people actually tried to utilize table cloths into a makeshift parachute. However, when they jumped, the force of the air falling snatched tablecloth off of them destroying the hole makeshift parachute apparatus. What a horrible, horrible, horrible way to die.
From the photos it looks like he came out of the impact zone. His office may have been around the 97th or 96th floor. At the time he started climbing most of the fire on that floor was on the east side of the tower. It didn't spread to the west side of the tower until much later. He would have had time to orchestrate his plan of escape as conditions on his side of the floor were still somewhat tolerable.
I don't think tht a table cloth would help. I think parachutes have to open at a higher altitude to work then the towers or other buildings are at. I read that somewhere which is why they're not provided like fire extinguishers but I'm no expert. All these stories of what ppl tried & nothing worked. I think it's crazy ppl could call, text, or email ppl. It's jarring to me knowing I'm going to die but I can still send msgs to whoever. If it happened today you could watch RU-vid videos or pull up songs. You could choose ur soundtrack to go out to. Tht's kinda awesome & kinda of sad. It's just nuts. RIP to everyone. Fact is we can all kind of insert ourselves into the shoes of these ppl to a point & use reason to at least partially simulate the experience. Tht's why our palms sweat hearing these stories.
The line from one fireman in the Naudet brothers documentary that really stayed with me all of these years was, "How bad must it have been up there, (above the impact zone) that the better option is to jump?" So true. God bless all of those that passed that day, and their families.
@@SoyAntonioGaming We know that most were voluntary because more than a few jumped with other people, some holding hands, because they didnt want to jump alone. Enough with the conspiracy theories please. They are exhausting.
@chocolatetownforever7537 Reality isn't a conspiracy, ppl do panic and self preservation kills others,just look at night club fire deaths and 93 trade center bombing. Now of course maybe a few of tge 200 plus jumpers were pushed, but still may have occured!
There's a story from one paramedic that said one of the jumper or "faller" was actually still alive after hitting the ground! But only for a few brief moments. The guy was tagging people that were assumed dead. And he went to tag that woman and she said "hunny I'm still alive!" Please call my daughter" he knew obviously she was dying or going to die any minute. He didn't quite know what to do? So he lied to her and said.. it's ok. You're going to be ok. "they're coming" Even though her bottom half was all disfigured, her head never hit the ground.😢 My God, this day really upsets me more than any. It wasn't fair to them people... or hardly any human on Earth. It's still hard to comprehend and swallow what all happened that day.
It was so horrific the guy doesn’t know if it was even real. He said it might have been a false memory from ptsd a hallucination from the stress or it really happened . Apparently she resented him for a while screaming I’m not dead over and over.
the will to live is strong. That man was a fighter to the very end. It's too bad he couldn't break a window down below the impact zone and then get to the stairs for exit.
@@The-Great-Brindianno, what you'd need is a fat line of coke. Idk though. It would have to be some good coke cause I sure wouldn't want to come down from it halfway down.
With the people above the impact zone. They had 2 choices. Burn to death or jump to their death. I think your brain compensates so you are not afraid to die and that is why over 200 people jumped. There was a study on it somewhere that at the point they jumped they probably weren't afraid anymore
@@shaneb3792 Right, and I'll admit that I would have jumped if that was my best possible option. It would have been far better than staying inside that death trap, and would have gone out with one hell of a bang, instead of a whimper for certain. You can also compare it to how a suicidal person feels when they suddenly become just a bit too happy and jolly out of nowhere, since that often means they've made up their minds, and are going to end their lives any moment, while knowing they're not going to be a part of this world they never asked to be in for much longer either.
True. But grappled with the choice to live or to suffocate to death, probably you'd end up considering it at some point and try. I don't know what I'd do. Some people would end up paralysed by sheer fear... I am not quite sure anymore. Regardless, no one should ever be faced with such fate.
I think people are underestimating the power of sound waves. The vibrations of the 1st tower collapsing would not have been isolated to that tower. The sound wave would travel through the air as well as through the elements of nearby buildings. It's probable that whether he heard the rumbling or not, the vibration would have shaken the building too much to maintain his grip.
This isn't true. It's not like how this guy is saying it. The man who attempted this barely made it down 1 floor before he slipped and fell to his death. I saw the video it's on RU-vid.
@@rickyparrilla2426No, this is a separate incident. He did indeed make it down 20 floors, then was not seen again after the south tower collapsed. People did calculations and he wouldn't have been able to make it down in time anyway. He was averaging 1.5 floors per minute. Assuming he didn't fall, he would have made it to floor 34 by the time the tower collapsed. I have great infographics on this with calculations and plenty of photos.
Listening to this story makes my hands sweaty just thinking about how high up he was and how nothing to hold onto except for putting pressure against either wall holding you’re body up and trying to shimmy down… what a legend.
The fall of the south tower registered a 2.1 on the Richter scale in Lisbon, NH, 266 miles away. He would have been flung immediately. Such a tragic story.
1:10 Actually, more people died in the North Tower than the South Tower. Even though the South was hit lower and it didn’t stand for as long, because of how far to the East the plane hit, people were able to access the stairs on the Western side of the tower for some time. The plane that hit the North Tower struck it perfectly in the middle, cutting off all stairways to the floors above the impact zone.
It's the time-wise that he's talking about. The man was coming down from the north tower which gave him additional time that he certainly would need in order to continue climbing down. So technically, the man had a better chance and more time than if this was the south tower. It's specifically about this man that he's referring to. We all know that more people died in North Tower. It's about the collapse and this guy that is specifically being said
Thanks for that info, I never heard that before, it makes sense. Glad to hear many escaped the south tower. I figured the evil guy flying the 2nd plane improvised when he saw the north tower just burning and still standing so he decided to take out a lower corner of the south tower in hopes that it would cause an immediate collapse. So, his decision backfired and failed when the people inside had a fire free passageway to escape. So many more people would have died if he would have hit it dead center and as low as it was hit.
I think that happened because I have seen the person who in to the south tower flew into it sort of side ways so one stair was free, still many didn't find it, though many had already got out when the plane hit even if they where told to stay.
yes there was an accessible staircase but most people didn't get that chance. The reason the South Tower had less deaths is because a lot of people evacuated or began to evacuate after the first plane hit. There were people who stayed because of mixed messaging that the building gave people in terms of evacuating or staying still.
Staircase A in the South Tower was the one that remained completely intact from top to bottom. However, not all workers in/above the impact zone could access it because the smoke was ploughing through the floors. Staircase B in the North Tower is where 14 people survived the collapse.
It always happens to me too... it's actually a survival tactic, sweat allows us to create friction and grip and even thinking about being in the situation is enough to trigger the reaction from our body
You 100% would not have preferred to be in the North Tower than the South. In the North, there was ZERO chance of escape as all the stairwells were rendered impassable. In the south tower, one was left intact and as a result around 20 people above the point of impact were able to escape and survive. In addition to that, the experience in the North Tower was way more excruciating as the fire and smoke was concentrated in a smaller area since it was struck higher up and smack dab in the middle of the tower. That is why at least 85% of the jumpers came from the North Tower. So definitely South over North. All day every day.
also, many folks on the south tower had the chance to leave before 175 hit their tower since 11 hittin the north one spooked them into followin their guts and leaving before trouble came around. its very sad that many others above impact didn't realize that there was a stairwell still working. those who made it from there know they ll always owe their life to honorary firefighter Welles Crowther , who noticed it first and guided them there.
below impact, you'd rather be in the north. above impact, you'd rather be in the south. if you're a firefighter, you'd rather be in the north. given the choice, you'd rather be at home.
People that have never been In A structure fire before. They don’t understand one thing. When you see people jump. 90%+ of the time it’s not premeditated as you would assume. It’s literally a reflex. - I remember being the roof man when I was new, I had very little experience and one leg punched threw the roof vent hole. and a blow torch comes out of the attic. Flames start licking my SCBA mask. Then A 4x8 section starts sagging. and I literally dive off the roof and half way down I was thinking. “WHY THE F+++ DID I JUMP? I could’ve used the ladder!” That’s when I learned. Your biological hardwiring in your body has certain reflexes hardwired In. -- so I often think. Most of the people jumping probably got hit with the heat and that reflex kicked them out. Some obviously premeditated the ones holding hands etc
Well said, and likely true to many of the “jumpers”. It’s prob natural instinct for any mammal/animal to immediately jump away from an unexpected blast of heat or fire without a single thought of where your jumping to.
Nothing but respect to this man. I practice calisthenics and I'm aware of parkour & I'm not sure I would have done what this man did. This is an amazing story. Thank you fir sharing. RIP to all those who were lost on that fateful day.
We might be able to narrow it down to a list of who it could have been. We know it was a male who died in the north tower who reportedly worked on the 94th floor. If we had pics of the list we could probably narrow it down more. It is unlikely this gentleman was elderly or significantly overweight and obviously had no physical handicaps.
It could be. I don't think there is any video evidence of this out there. Which doesn't make sense, because if he was descending for that long there was enough time for someone to pull out their video cam. Plenty of people had video cameras. Also i am sure there were tons of news cameras circling the building the same time he supposedly did this. @@mikeaziz5040
Picked the wrong window to exit, I guess... Of course, even if he'd picked the right window, seems like he would've had to make a tricky move to get into, or fall into, the miracle open one. Could've slipped up right on the verge of success. There would have been no one there to pull him in or help him, after all, barring another miracle, and conditions were not ideal.
This is so insane that someone actually tried this, but I have to admit it did cross my mind a lot of times. I just wasn't sure if the space was narrow enough for a human being to get a grip. That bloke is a legend!! God bless his soul!
Not only that, but more than enough alternatives for exiting. Heck. I already avoid tall af buildings if I see them and always avoid top floors because my thought is "if a fire broke out at some point due to natural cause, the ones on top have less likely a chance to escape."
The down draft from the other tower falling is definitely what knocked him off the building. Somewhere I read that the wind speeds were in excess of 100mph. That guy is a legend. We can all learn from this to appreciate each and every day that you have been given.
@@The-Great-Brindian Yeah, that seems wrong. How about the small earthquake that WTC 2 made? Or my best guess, he just couldn't breathe in the dust cloud.
He is a legend! His efforts for climbing down with the will power and bravery is beyond life and death. My love and heart goes out to these beautiful people
There is a Video here on RU-vid where you see the man fighting for his life but in the end it is too much and he falls down before The Tower 'collapses'..😢
I used to have dreams about making this climb down. And remembered Tom Cruise from Mission Impossible II using some kind of sticky cups climbing a skyscraper. That was always my idea to survive this horror. Also don’t forget that not only the second tower collapse could have made him lose his grip. Also you have tons of debris raining down on you from the floors above and yes people falling.
Check out George Willig. He scaled the south tower in 1977, using homemade "latch type" climbing gear that fit into the window washer scaffold slots. Took him 3 1/2 hours to complete the climb and was arrested at the top.
FYI that was Mission Impossible 4 or 5 or something. (Theres been so many I cant keep em straight) and Tom actually really did climb part of the Burj Khalifa
I used to spend a lot of time with my grandmother at the hospital. There were times when she'd be sleeping and I'd wander around the hospital all hours of the night. There was a space like this between two buildings that went up 8 stories. I used to shimmy up and down all the way. Going up is definitely easier than going down
Even if you could make it down, it would take several hours to do it, and the building would have collapsed by then. The only chance to survive is to scale down a few floors and break a window to access a stairwell.
Agreed. It's the only way, unless sliding down the aluminium cladding was possible. They don't look too wide. One lower leg on one side the other on the other.
@@demonhalo67 window washer do have a platform that they have to attach somewhere to go up or down... Very sad that no protocol was made cause it seem infrastructurally, it was possible to get either down or up from outside wall if collumn was intact
I remember seeing the footage on the morning of 9/11 of that man, and then the cameras trying to find him again after the collapse of the other tower. It was heartbreaking and horrific. Every now and then I would try to find mention of him (I never saw the footage replayed) and could never find anything. Thank you for posting. They had some pretty zoomed in images of him. The person filming him was basically following his plight and I also watched - holding my breath and with my hand over my mouth. I wish he could be identified. Perhaps it’s too tragic for any family to contemplate their loved one fighting so courageously to live only to be struck down by the force of the implosion nearby 😢
Imagine if we had the drone technology of today and rescue robotics, and the technology of improved digi coms etc back then hate to break peoples hearts but such was the designs of those towers folks, it STILL would ahve been mighty difficult to save people trapped 92+ floors in the N Tower. 😞 Hi Hatari 2 Me (or 2u?) or what? 😐
@@memphis6694 i have yet to see any evidence showing anyone descended 20 stories. he would have had to climb down the impact floors, super heated beams, fire blasting out windows etc. i have watched everything i can find and nothing shows this. he is on the north tower, west face. the video she is referencing has to be the talierco footage which shows a man fall after lowering himself a few feet (if that), zoomed in watching his plight. he comes out a window, goes back in and then a final time he tried to lower himself.. it's the only thing i have seen that is even close to this, but it's obviously not this man. i have been searching and cannot find any reliable reference to anyone descending the north tower 20 stories. just anecdotes of people saying they saw it.
@@sigmachud9092 hey can you look at my comment on the original post. It’s 3 days old, so if you sort by newest, shouldn’t he to hard to find. I agree he did not scale down 20 floor’s however he did go down 10 floors. I posted a comment about it. When you find my comment, tell me what you think. Also I recently watched on Hulu the National Geographic 9/11 One Day in America and it’s only about an1 second clip and they zoom in on this man and you can literally see him move down slightly. It’s soo unbelievable that I had to find out more.
This story is kind of hard to believe, but I think someone pointed out someone that looked like they were trying to climb down, and one of the videos taken during 9/11. The fact this man shimmied down 20 floors before supposedly slipping, and falling to his death, is amazing. If only he had made it all the way down. We need a story about this guy
There was no way to get to bottom. Either it opened wider or closed to a loop shape, which he would've been stuck.. Only help from a fire truck ladder could've saved him.
Ok because of this video, I went down a rabbit hole and did not stop to I found out more about this person. He did shimmy down, but not 20 stories but closer to 10. Also he is going down with his back against the wall or column behind him, his knees pressed up against the column in front of him and his feet would now be bent under his but and was used to help grip that column behind him as well. Unfortunately the way you are saying, probably wouldn’t be possible, because the width between the columns is not wide enough. Also unfortunately that open window despite being right there would be impossible to reach because there is no way of going from the column he was going down to the other one with the open window. Lastly this is very factual, it is in the Official NIST Report… I am now trapped in a 9/11 web and have watched and learned more about this tragedy then I ever known previously. I was 13 when it happened and yes I knew it was bad and a lot of people were hurt and a lot lost of lives were lost. However I couldn’t by any means grasp this situation they way I have as an adult… My prayers will forever be to those who lost their lives (baring those who causes it) those who lost loved ones, and all those involved in any aspect of this tragedy…
I was about 21 when it happened, and even as a young adult it took years to get a better understanding of the situation. There are some things i’m still discovering. I didn’t understand until last month why some of the people who fell had long trails of cloth coming from their feet. I now realized the floor was so hot where they were that they had wrapped ripped curtains or tablecloth (or some sort of fabric they found in the offices) around their feet so that their feet didn’t burn off. When they fell/jumped, it had unraveled.
The other problem was going down another 70 stories in half an hour, even if he survived the South Tower collapse. Plus the plume of smoke rose up and it would make it very hard to breathe, see, or hold a grip. And then run a block or two to survive the North Tower collapse.
there is inbetween floor with open area and thightening of collumn so it was certainly possible, but hell holding that way down, you are an office worker not extreme climber who have practice year prior
no need, it would've been enough for him to break a window with his foot in one of the office floors right below impact, then he could ve shimmied back inside and used the stairs.
@@ravenrey7225there indeed was another man who tried to climb down and fell off. He climbed down a few floors, tried to kick open a window and literally fell. The entire thjng was recorddd, just type in 'man tries to climb down wtc ' Skyscraper glass is not breaking open with a kick from A shoe you're gonna need somethjng pointy , sharp , with mass
I could imagine many people probably tried without a doubt. Just prior to the attacks, not sure if it was in progress of being filmed or even written yet but Jackie Chan was going to be in a movie as a window washer that has to stop terrorists from blowing up a building. Needless to say it was rightfully cancelled.
My hands would be trembling and sweating so much i would just lose grip instantly, this man has waaay more bottle than i ever would, i would cry like a little girl at the thought of doing this or just have a heart attack. RIP Sir
Also, at the time the adrenaline jumped in and their only thought was "get out of here. Get out of here by any means." Once they were in safety the reality would sink in (sadly, they never did and this pains me so much)
The video had a huge impact on me. I feel like I would try the same thing, but just imagining looking down and seeing the enormous altitude would make my knees faint. It's literally a nightmare. I've never even imagined something like that in my dreams.
I will never forget the pure shock, horror, and near unbelievability of witnessing those planes hit those towers on live television! When we saw that first plane hit one of those towers, I specifically remember both of us wondering, What sort of emergency would cause a pilot to stray that far off course? However, by the time the second plane hit the other tower, that was one too many coincidences for us to think anything else than what it turned out to be! I can never rid the sound of those periodic thumps (which, I later learned, were the bodies of those who jumped to escape being roasted alive!) out of my mind! Even still, after the shock of all of that, I don't think for a second either of us (grandma and I) were ready or could've guessed what was about to happen next-witnessing those towers falling-all of these events, for me, were a step too far into the void. I have never, in my whole life, before or since, felt convinced that the possibility of the beginning of the end might've just begun! RIP to all the victims of 9-11-not just those who died on that day but in the subsequent days, months, and years since, as well! 😱💔😭 ❤️🇺🇲♾️
I don't believe it is within the realm of possibility that you saw the first plane hit on live TV. That would have required the TV news station to know it was going to happen ahead of time.
He gave it everything he had even though he must have been shaking with exhaustion after even just a few floors. Such determination. Such strong will to live. Rest in peace now, it's for sure you will never be forgotten.
Je nose pas imaginer ce que cet homme a ressenti la seconde où ses mains ont lâché les murs ! Après avoir fait autant d'efforts pendant 20 étages pour survivre... Mon Dieu. R.I.P.
That guy is a true hero! The typical American idol you will see in movies, escaping explosions and doing the impossible, he deserves a purple medal for that!
In rock climbing this is called chimney climbing and it can be surprisingly easy IF the width is just right for your body measurements and IF the friction between your shoes and the metal are just right. If the friction is not right you have to compensate with strength and technique to add friction but its intuitive, a beginner can do it. The key to this situation ironically is to relax and trust the body to do the thinking and balancing; its possible for the cerebral cortex to override the brain stem and relax if you accept that you will die otherwise. Fear is the enemy of climbing performance; only the body can do it. Pretty much anyone could do this chimneying if the width is just right for them and they have the right shoe soles. The technique is called "stemming" and it can be done with either your back against one side and both legs walking down the other side, or with one foot under you and the other on the other side. If the chimney is wide it can also be done one foot against each side with your body toward the wall. If it was either this or certain death I could do this, I think. Biggest problem would be overcompensating for friction and running out of muscle strength.
Muscle strength is the main problem I think. You can probably hold out in that position for 5 minutes, but can you last for 20-30 minutes or even more? It seems nearly impossible.
@@gfgfdgdgdg If your body size is perfect for the chimney width you would be surprised how easy it is and how long you can hold out. There's a possibility that 10% of the people who died could have downclimbed to the structure 30 ft above the ground where it stops and then jumped and possibly broken your ankle, but you could live. Strength would be less of a factor than your clothing and shoe sole material. But if everything was ideal you could do it right now.
@@w.harrison7277 Riiiiiiiiight, and it was theoretically possible that if the people flapped their arms hard enough they could have generated enough lift to compensate for their body weight and flown down to safety.
They should have designed light-weight FIRE ESCAPE STAIRS from the top floor window to the bottom, on at least, one side of the building. That would have have saved HUNDREDS OF LIVES>
Im watching this every year and i still discover new stories every year. This is just so hardcore and has really affected me psychologically as a child even though i dont even live on the american continent. 😢
There is a rock climbing technique thats used. Feet on one side, back pressed against the other. Not having mastered it first, and that slick looking surface. What a nightmare.
Theoretically youd only need to get below the fire, however do remember on the floors that are on fire the metal is going to get ridiculously hot, so if you were to be above going through the fire area would be almost impossible so this dude is an absolute legend
@@5wheels178I read the floor directly below (92nd I think) the impact in the North Tower had no survivors due to debris and damage blocking off all exits.
Even so, to descend 94 floors and live to tell the tale to some extent requires a modicum of luck. Had this fella had it on the day he could have re-entered the north tower 18 floors below the point of impact and made it down. He would have only had 30 minutes to go down 70-75 floors but if fast, it's possible.
@@demonhalo67 imagine if he made it through some luck involved. What a story to be unlucky enough to have been in the building that high up when it's hit by a plane in the first place then have luck swing to your side if you managed to make an escape like that. Many people believe in destiny but is it still destiny when someone is responsible for bringing your life to an end abruptly. Are all forms of death destiny and if so there's nothing he could've done if it was just his time. Sad events of that day and the lives stolen still really hit me hard. These People were were just going to work they weren't doing anything risky that could have affected their life. Very sad.
He was lucky to survive the crash, the 94th floor was where the fuselage from flight 11 passed through and where fireballs erupted out of three sides of the building, (although not on this side.) In any case there was nothing to lose as all stairwells and elevators were smashed from the 92nd floor and above. His survival would have given a great insight to what it was like up there. Nobody survived higher than the 91st floor, those folks descending say no one was coming down from above and the stairwells appeared blocked. Sadly more did not try to descend via these means and chose to leap from the tower and die instantly than suffer smoke asphyxiation and heat burn.
The windows on the wtc were made to be unbreakable, you cant even open the windows. So even if u did descend, theres no way you can break it and enter from outside
Everyone has survival instincts, disasters reveal our special powers to survive. Some disasters are impossible to survive no matter how incredible you are
I had wondered if that was a possibility. Also thought about the window washers lifts, if it could have worked. It's sad that the man failed. It just shows how desperate the people were to survive. Bless them, and always remember and honor them.
You just gave me a thought if the window washing lifts could have saved lots of people maybe not all but a few window lifts could of saved the ones that jumped ,,, it's so sad over all how things happened I just wish this tragedy never happened all these beautiful souls lost and afterwards more humans lost from cancer when doing the recovery the search and rescue crew would die Year's later due to inhaling toxic chemicals from the charred steel of the both towers Rest In Peace to All 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Dude, where did you find the info on this story? This is epic. I have spent the last 22 years on the twin towers and was only aware about one person who climbed down but he only went down around 3-4 floors then he falls and you can watch him falling down. That’s the info I got from the NIST report. Who is your dude? Btw, are you familiar with the attachment M?
Keep in mind if likely wasn’t the bang or noise from the 2nd tower falling that made him fall, it would have been the entire tower swinging from the shaking
during the south tower collapse, the North Tower begins to shake violently once again as the debris and rubble smashes into the façade. maybe the intense vibration of the building shooked him off
Wow!!! What an absolute legend!!! His story should definitely be shared, it sucks that we can't know who he was and what exactly happened that caused him to fall but my best guess is (like you mentioned) it was more than likely the collapse of the south tower that ultimately caused his demise. It's so tragic to think that the window next to him was actually open and it also has me questioning whether he could have possibly been saved by someone noticing him and breaking a window to slide through that was underneath or something like that. He must've been a climber or something along those lines that let him know that this was even possible to try to do but what an incredible guy!!💔😞
My heart is in the pit of my stomach and my hands are sweaty just thinking about him “shimmying down”…….. poor people…… I CAN’T even begin to imagine the nightmare…… may the victims all RIP….😔💔✝️💟🕊️
Are you watching the same video I am? He never slid down 20 floors, it was THREE at best, guy in a white shirt, first waving his jacket then ditches that and starts shimmying down, but a little ways down he slipped and slid down a bit and was airbourne on his back legs and arms out while he fell
@@athens31415 Yes there is fatigue. You're actually more likely to go weak than get stronger. You're talking about fantasy stories where mothers lift a car off their babies.
I’ve recently began looking into it again and it’s now just hitting me how horrific that day was and how the people trapped must of felt and what they went through…I was a senior in H.S. when this happened and all these years I never thought to much about it..I even went to NYC in 2006 and didn’t even go to the site but I did see the sphere…I didn’t know this story but I’ve thought hundreds of times what they could have done to get out I can’t believe there was no protocols like having rope or a helicopter with a water cannon..I guess no one thought this possible in 2001…had that guy been able to break a window he could have got in and the stairwells were open under the crash site…he was so close but I heard those windows were thick and strong. Thanks for posting
It didn't happen. The one guy who attempted to do this didn't even make it down one floor, let alone 20 floors. It was recorded on video. The poor guy fell very quickly attempting to do this. I don't know why people post videos like this if they didn't see it themselves. It couldn't be done especially in work clothes like shoes and tie which the guy had on. May he rest in peace.
There is some footage of two men sheltering under a part of the towers that adjoined Austin J. Tobin Plaza. Canned music plays in the background. Sheafs of paper are fluttering down. Debris is scattered helter skealtar. The two men are commenting on a man scaling down the tower, who eventually falls to his death. I do not know any further details. I wonder if it was found footage or whether the two men survived the attack. It is intensely disturbing footage. Lest we forget.
Wow! Never knew this. Its amazing he made it 20 floors! Don't ever underestimate what you can do when you really want to survive. I have a very strong feeling he was trying to get back home to someone and wasn't giving up. God bless him!
Has anyone heard of Edna Cintron!? She was waving 👋 from the impact spot forever until she just disappeared! Of course like this one guy, she falls after the building collapsed 🤦🏼♀️
1:15, if you look closely at the bottom centre and a bit towards the left (right at the bottom centre of the hole left by the plane), there's a woman wearing (black top, white pants) waving. That is apparently Edna Cintron, who worked at Marsh&McLennan on the 93rd floor. She stood there the entire time WTC 1 was up, there were some pictures supposedly around 5 mins before WTC 1 collapsed that showed her still standing at the same spot as the floors around her began collapsing. Don't know what ended up happening, some say she was there until WTC 1 collapsed (she did not survive) & some say she jumped before WTC 1 collapsed/
And if ya look to the upper right of where she's standing you can see a white man in a orange shirt . Idk if that is a guy or not but I seen someone say it was on a different video. Imagine surviving and living through the actual impact zone. Ya get the wind knocked out of you then become coincidence and stand up seeing your on top this building with 110 floors and there's heat flames fire sharp objects and toxins from the jets fuel.. To end up standing right on the ledge and your waving at the few helicopters that were up there screaming as loud as you could possibly scream physically waving to them and have them land on roof or throw a rope her way and tie her up and take her to the grounds. Even if the helicopters did have a chance to land on the roof and have ppl run into the helicopters safety it be impossible the 2 pilots wouldn't be able to see an inch in front of them plus it's like 2,000 degrees with flames and shit and black arid smoke with jet fuel and toxins they would also put themselves and everyone on the grounds and streets at high risk from the helicopter losing control and end up crashing being broken apart and have the parts land on top killing people below. It wouldn't be safe or worth it. I'm sure the waving woman had that in her mind set. Thinking oh wow there's helicopters only feet away I can just jump on and get off off this building . My family won't have to plan my funeral etc but I'm also sure she knew at some point they weren't gonna save her . But having that thought on her mind probably at least gave her some comfort and faith let's just hope when the tower collapsed she died instantly and didn't suffer
A video of this guy exists. I saw it on CNN as it was happening live in 2001. What happened was, the original video captured live as it was being aired that eventually after scaling the 20 floors, he either slipped or released his grip and fell the remaining distance. There are many videos that were aired live as they were happening on 9/11/2001 from major news networks that never made it to any newer memorial 9/11 RU-vid videos. I don't think people recorded some of the live news as it was happening. For example, I remember seeing a jumper using his arms to balance himself while falling. The video camera continued following him as hit the very side of a ledge, and as he bounced off that ledge and continued falling more distance, his arms were no longer balancing himself and it was clear that he was completely knocked out for the remainder of the fall. Very sad and tragic. I'm bringing this up because no RU-vid video exists of this particular jumper. Does anyone remember seeing this? I'm just making a point that there are no RU-vid videos of many live news feeds from 9/11.
The stairs are usually the fire exits, you're instructed to not take elevators if there's a fire due to power loss.trapping you inside or losing power and falling. But if both are cut off.... no chance
He fought for himself more than almost anyone else in that building. He deserved to live but RIP. I hope his soul is satisfied knowing he did everything
Sorry to say, but he did not climb down 20 floors, he climbed down 1 floor. Although he did his best he can be seen waving his jacket and climbing down 1 floor, than...losing his grip. His entire climb is filmed. He started at 94 and lost his grip on 93. This man was very very brave.
Te Guy Who you are talking about is a man in south tower. Probably were more than one Who tried this. Anyway i dont know if this story is true, without any video...
Wow. He is amazing for that. I heard of some people trying to climb down the building. I will never forget that day. I can not imagine what they all went through that day. God bless them all.
This isn't true. One man attempted to climb down, but he didn't even make it down one floor before he slipped and fell. It's on video here on RU-vid. I saw it many times. I used to work in the WTC. Trust me, it couldn't have been done.
@@rickyparrilla2426why should we "trust you"? I know the video you are talking about but that was just one person that tried and fell right away, how do you know someone didn't make it further? You didn't see every video
While he obviously didn't make it, you gotta give the guy a 100% solid A+ for effort, and nothing else too. To think that he really was only just a mere single column away from getting out of that horrible rock, and a hard place alive, and would have been the only person above the impact in the North Tower/Tower #1 to survive, had if he'd been successful in his hypothetical miraculous escape. That was his only chance, since he would have had virtually no way of getting down all the way, due to the shapeshift at the bottom of the tower. That of which I'm not too certain would have been able to negotiate getting down without the proper equipment, which surely would have been required in order to do so either.
@@breakingpieces7715 And whoever he was would have been a household name had if his escape been successful. Instead we'll never know who he was as long as we live. Daniel Lewin on Flight 11 also would have received 100 congressional medals, and purple hearts by now, had if he stopped the terrorists on board that plane. He just may have succeeded if he wasn't caught off guard by the fifth highjacker sitting behind him, who he wasn't aware was part of that team, while saving half of the Twin Towers in the process too!
@@freakyfornash unfortunately nothing went right that day. However, who knows how he would have managed to descend the final part of the building considering that the spaces between the pillars widen and it is no longer possible to slide between them
@@breakingpieces7715 Yeah, but he wouldn't have gotten dawn safely in that case. His only chance was climbing through a broken window, which he was just one mere column away from doing too.
Why do people have to build things so tall in the first place? "Oh yes look at me and the size of this construction which compensates for the size of my appendage which the doctor chopped"
My best friend from elementary school asked me to go with him to the city to visit the World Trade Center. I remember being on the observation deck and one of the windows looking down. The cars looked like ants from that height. It's crazy to think someone tried to scale down that building. My heart goes out to those beautiful souls that had to jump from that height due to the extreme heat. RIP to all that lost their lives. Never forget! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I remember seeing a video of this guy trying to climb down one of the towers, and he loses his footing and falls. In the background you can hear the plaza music playing a instrumental cover of “she’s always a woman”, while this guy is falling to his death. Probably one of the most surreal videos I’ve ever watched here on RU-vid. I can’t find the video anymore.
The one that looked like he was holding onto something then fell? I feel like all the videos of him have gone except one by Jake Talerico? Unsure how to spell his last name sorry
Holy cow! People were absolutely desperate. And I don't mean that in a demeaning way. The situation was desperate. It really makes you think what you would do in an impossible situation like that. Something most people never wanna think about. Super confronting.
True. I think those of us who weren't there really don't understand how bad the conditions were. I saw an interview with an attorney who was on the 57th floor of the North Tower. He had the advantage of being young, in good shape, and he was dozens of floors under the impact zone. Still, when he got down to the elevator lobby on floor 44, he faced conditions where he could easily have been killed. Again in the lobby, same situation. Glass, fires, live electrical wires, sparks, pools of jet fuel, and explosions. And in the street, falling debris, falling people, and many, many ways to get killed.
I always wondered how far apart those outside columns were because putting your back against one side and your feet against the other is how I would have tried to get out. There's no way I'm going out in that fire, or without trying something. I would have been looking for cords from all the electrical devices around first to see if there was any way to tie something together to climb down. If that didn't work, I would have shimmied my ass off.
Same here. Shoot, shoes and socks off for more grip (who knows maybe feet sweating would do you in) and keep pressing your back firmly and in a squat formation walk down. It’s too high. No matter what, their fate was sealed unfortunately. I was 18 when I stood in front of my tv before highly school. Pacific time, I didn’t go to school that day. St that age my goal was to visit those towers one day. They took that along with nearly 3,000 souls.
How did he even get out there? Stepping out of the window & getting your feet on one side & your back against the other at the same time? If not he'd fall. It happened apparently but it's amazing he was able to do that.
