If your workers are that good at shinning up a rope, what's the need for scaffolding?
If you follow the gaze of the guy atop this 20-storey building, you'll see his althetic workmate halfway up, clinging to a rope. Steve Corbett, who spotted this while on secondment in Libya, exclaims: 鈥淵es, that is his working platform at high level鈥 and yes, that rope is his only access to that working platform!鈥
![Man on rope](https://d2vhdk00tg424t.cloudfront.net/MediaLibrary/s3/ubm-library/web/e/x/d/Blunder_Libya_rope.jpg)
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