Climbing forever

[Lophophaps]

Have you ever had the feeling that there is no top to the climb, that it will go on forever? Hannels Spur is a good example. If so, there’s an inside view on this.
http://biggeekdad.com/2013/06/stairwell ... i4Y4.email

[neilmny]

Whaaaattttttttttt!!!!!!!

[Giddy_up]

Haha, very good.

[Travis22]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/escherian.asp

Travis.

[GPSGuided]

It's a split screen video trick. RIT does not have such a staircase apart from Escherian stairs drawn on paper. Movie magic!

[Lophophaps]

Travis and GPS, very good. The video looks puzzling, but seeing is not believing. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpRvDxFwZ0U

The giveaway is actually quite easy. Strip off the hyperbole and use common sense. There is no way that a person can go up and without going down return to the start point. What I want is the reverse: start at the bottom and finish at the top, easily. Maybe a gondola or escalator. Of course there's a modern solution, "Beam me up, Scotty." I wonder if there's an app for this.

[neilmny]

Ah the digital age, I can't imagine that could be spliced together so seemlessly on film.
I was thinking what a load of BS, a physical impossibility but the circuit he does with the chain of people around the walls
is a holy crap moment. Maybe there's some flaws somewhere and my feeble eyes just wanted to accept what I was seeing.