An Incredible First-Person View of Cleaning the Windows of the World’s Tallest Building in Dubai

Lori Dorn
April 20, 2015

In a 2012 episode of the BBC series >Supersized Earth, science reporter Dallas Campbell went on location to join a team of men as they cleaned the extraordinarily high windows of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE, the tallest man-made building on Earth.

It’s almost inconceivable how high these windows are. I’m 60 meters above the next platform below, which is itself 600 meters above the ground. Higher than the previous world’s tallest building. At this height, if I dropped anything, I could do serious damage.

via The Presurfer

Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.