Even in a rustic wherein nearly every person is connected to ultra-excessive-pace internet, the spectacle of fireworks exploding from one of the global’s tallest homes can nevertheless pull within the crowds. But possibly even extra staggering than the show that entertained onlookers on the 123-story Lotte World Tower in Seoul earlier this month turned into the daredevil attempt that went into developing it.

Daredevils climb Seoul's Lotte World Tower to prompt fireworks 1

The eleven-minute display required a $6 million budget, 30,000 fireworks, and 750 taking pictures spots, but additionally some terrifying ropework, half of a kilometer above the ground, via tremendously experienced mountaineers.
This is what Group F got herein. A 37-strong group of mountain courses, rescue people, and rigging professionals from France specialize in setting up fireworks on landmark high-rise buildings worldwide, including the Eiffel Tower or Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.

In Seoul, their operations started several days earlier than the display, with the arrival of a truck carrying gunpowder racks. The group used elevators and then staircases to take the gear up to two spots wherein they could get right of entry to the construction outdoors — at the roof and the 73rd ground.

This is the component while most people’s legs would begin to wobble as they dangle on for expensive existence; however, for Group F’s Eric Faroux, letting go and swinging out high above the streets is just every other day in the workplace.
“When it has been your activity for 20 or 25 years, it is something you do not reflect consideration on it in the end,” he says. “You don’t have to worry. You want to pay attention to it. When you go the fence, you don’t have fear.”
Faux and his colleagues like a building to a mountain and refer to the pinnacle because of the summit.
But, given that they are handling potentially risky explosives, it is arguably tougher terrain.

Lethal drop

Even an object as small as a pen should have established lethal to pedestrians underneath if dropped.
As a precaution, the vicinity around the building base becomes closed at some point during the operations.
“Safety is the important consideration in this challenge, so the crew has been selected [with that consideration in mind],” says Fauroux.
Group F’s specialists, ready with safety tools and a helmet, harness, and rope, work in pairs or groups 3 while rigging. In the case of Lotte, they each descended on a single string to one of the 370 firework launch spots.

When the time came to mild the fuse, crowds amassed at numerous locations on the floor, nearby rooftops, or in parks — the show was a highlight of this year’s conventional Circle of Relatives month celebrations.
There become a subject matter of peace this 12 months — a mirrored image of the latest rapprochement efforts with North Korea. There became additional tracks from “La La Land,” “The Greatest Showman,” and a famous Korean conventional tune, “Ariang.”
The show climaxed with loud bangs and blinding flashes, revealing the Korean phrase for “peace.”
“At the end, we’re proud of doing this activity,” Faux says. “During the show, when I see the target audience centered on what is occurring, I get electricity from them.”