…it isn’t hard to do.
Especially if you watch this guy – his name is Shane Griffin – running up the side of buildings like Isaac Newton never did the thing with the apple back in the 17th Century.
I’m not advocating the trespass, endorsing the invasion of privacy or the overlooking of basic health and safety here, but there is something rather impressive about the way he does this.
It’s not just his ability, but his faith in that ability (and some aging drainpipes) that is remarkable. He really does make going vertically upwards look rather effortless, and yet we all know about the 9.81ms-2 constantly trying to pull him vertically the other way.
One false move and he would be fine – if that false move was before he started going up the sheer side of a four-storey building – the rest of the time, he’d be in a lot of trouble, very quickly.
And he’d likely have the ghost of Sir Isaac doing that smug “I told you so” face at him. Understandably, too.
Thankfully though, that appears not to have happened.
So let’s just marvel at just how easy he makes this all look.