Climbing A Skyscraper with Spider-Man Wall Climbing Suit - No Way Home

Behind me is a gigantic building. It's completely flat, no handholds, and this is my wall-climbing Spider-Man suit. I think you know where this is going. This is the result of a few months of work and the completion of my decade-old dream to climb like Spider-Man. Ever since I first saw him get his powers and crawl on ceilings and walls, I was hooked. Been trying to climb like that ever since. Look how cute I was. Did we get the right video? The point is, everyone wants to wall-climb like that. Difference with me, I took it way too far. It all started with just a harmless trip to the climbing gym. I wanted to see the kind of climbing an expert is already capable of without any tricks up their sleeve. So after completely annihilating the beginner wall, I got a little cocky and I told him, throw me into the deep end. Basically, I kinda bet him that I could climb any wall he could and more. I don't know what's coming. I'm so confident, I'm ready. The way I see it, if we're trying to be Spider-Man, we gotta be able to climb stuff that even the experts can't. Okay, all right, what do we got here? I don't want anything to get in your way. No, that makes sense. So what we're gonna do, it's this purple route. It goes up kind of the side of the turtle's head. Okay. So, do you wanna see me do it? Yeah, yeah, why don't you just take it first? Then I'll show him how I do it. Is he on top of that? Yeah. What? That was pretty good, but like the third or fourth hold, he should have gone more, like done a little bit more twisting motion. The start holds are like this. Great, and then just reach up there. Yup. Yup, kick up there. Perfect, perfect. See, I don't know if chalk is a thing. Talkin' all the chalk. Chalk up and we'll see how much of a difference that makes. A little more, a little more. Yeah, you want more than that. Did I almost get it? You almost got it. You can go right into that. Right, that'll help. Nice. Do you do like forearm, like workout? Sometimes you just gotta rest. I clearly lost his respect, and my team was turning on me. Uh-huh. You don't look very handsome when you're doing it. You could hear that? Yeah. It became pretty clear, I wasn't gonna be able to beat this guy on my own. If I can't do that, then there's gonna be no way I can do stuff that Spider-Man can. So we need to cheat. Build something to make me a better climber. So I started with some research and made sure to use NordVPN. That way I can change my location in case something is only viewable from a certain country. Now Nord was kind enough to sponsor this one, and you can check them out, link below. So I started by simply searching how to climb walls like Spider-Man. And now I gotta sift through like a thousand websites, and some might be a bit sketchy. So it's great that Nord encrypts my data, hides my IP, and keeps me safe from being tracked. So I stumbled upon this article on a guy who invented some gecko climbing devices. But there is so much spam. Well, with the click of a button from Nord, it blocks the spam and it actually becomes readable. Thanks, Nord. It can also straight up hide bad websites, which saves us a lot of time. So go check out NordVPN, link below. They got a crazy holiday season deal, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee. So the climbers supposedly let him climb any flat surface by mimicking the way geckos do it. Could be cool. Well, it would be if I could find anything more than just this single video from 2014. Clearly something went wrong with the testing. You know what? Let's just start simple. Like the first thing you think of for making wall climbers. Climbing walls? How are you doing that? Adhesive gloves. Boom, that's right, Tony. Flex tape adhesive wall climbers. If this doesn't work, I'm gonna quit. I'm just gonna. Whose idea was this? This is so dusty. Well, that didn't work. What is this wall? Since the last one didn't work, it's only fair we give it another try. I feel like a fly. Oh my God. Help. Bro, it's kind of working. After the first move, like the adhesive starts to lose its stick. Why is every video of me like ripping adhesive off my body? That'll buff out. All right, what's another wall climbing thing people think of? Of course, plungers. Oh yeah, these'll definitely work. Look at all these videos. They wouldn't lie, right? I don't see how this won't work. I think I'm just gonna make like a ladder, you know? It's almost working, you know? It's not gonna work. I actually do like the idea of using suction. Super easy to deploy and it's also reusable, unlike the adhesive. Look what I just found. Wait, how convenient. These are just behind there. Maybe these suction cups that are actually meant to lift things work better. How do I go to the next one? I'll try and like go like that, you know? They like lose their grip over time, I think, like a little bit. All right, how do I do the feet? The main issue with everything so far is there's no release that I can easily do to take the next step. What happens when you can't reach them either? So let's try electromagnets, which have a much better quick release. The cool thing about this, we find a piece of metal, electromagnet here, a couple of batteries. Grab onto it and then hang from it. You ready? See? The only issue is it only works on metal. Most buildings are either like flat stuff, like stone, concrete, glass. If you wanna climb more of a variety of stuff, you don't mind slightly impaling the thing you're climbing. And putting spikes on your shoes works pretty great. I've got a whole video on this where I actually put spikes in some custom Spider-Man Air Force Ones, just a fold-out spike on the side, bit of ankle support, and some more spikes on your hands. It works pretty well on trees. They're low profile and you can climb pretty fast. But again, Spider-Man's climbing skyscrapers, not trees. And I wanna do that. So now we've looked at about every possible way I can think of to climb stuff and suction seems the most promising. Again, the problem is they lose suction eventually as air slowly seeps in. So let's fix that with a vacuum pump to keep constant low pressure. This tech actually has been used before, but it's always a giant vacuum strapped to some dude's back, you know, really clunky, climbing super slow. That's not Spider-Man. This needs to be mobile, extremely compact, and work well. How else is he gonna put the moves on his enemies if he can't, you know, move around? Now I really wanted to climb with tiny suction pads on my fingers and toes like Spider-Man, but as it turns out, it's physically impossible to pull enough vacuum force to do that. I mean, it's almost like they didn't actually do it and made the whole thing up. Liar! Thankfully though, I kept my cool, got it through and shifted some things around a bit. Instead of climbing with our fingertips and toes, let's move the climbers to where we have more surface area like our legs and forearms. If we can get about like 20 square inches per each limb at about minus 10 PSI, we should be able to hold 800 pounds. And again, I want this to be as compact as physically possible. So let's ditch that clunky vacuum and hit up Micro Center to get some motors to make independent mini vacuums, one for each limb. That way it'll be less bulky and also more redundant. We're also gonna need some Arduinos to control it, some 3D printer filament to print, and some tubing to suck the air out. Micro Center's basically the only physical store where you can get stuff like this. Also, new customers get a free 128 gig flash drive and SD card when they use the link below. So I 3D modeled and printed several versions of the climbers that I can mount to my arms and legs. They've got a tube to suck the air out, which attaches to the mini vacuum and battery. Also, a foam seal around the outside should stop the air from leaking out. Plasma cut out this metal bracket, so we just grab onto it. Should be able to stick this on the wall. I feel like a little bent. It worked pretty well though. It might have cracked or something. So that's extremely promising, but we gotta make it stronger. So I made some new climbers out of polycarbonate. This stuff's used to stop bullets, so it's extremely tough. And I was able to cut it out using my fancy CNC mill from Tormach. Like this thing is a game changer. You can throw basically anything in the chuck and it'll carve it into whatever shape you want, with basically just the push of a button. Right now I'm using it for polycarb, but it can carve metal like butter. Love having this thing, shout out Tormach. I then added a brace and buckles to better secure it to my arm. You think it'll work? No. Shit. You hate that guy. I hate that guy. That works. Wait, help. Well, now the suction is too good. Even after the pumps are turned off, it still sticks for a while. Actually kind of reminds me of like before Spider-Man knows how to use his powers when he's like sticking to random stuff and he can't control it. It's like a shield, see? I'm God. Can't ******* stop me, dude. You know, that basketball gets stuck to his hand. Take it. How about that? You want this guitar? Yeah. Go take it. Just take it. Hands up, I'm not even holding on. Stable? Unstable? Take it. So, we need that release valve. It would also be super helpful to know how good the suction actually is before I put my weight on it. You know, that way I don't. So, I added an air valve, a pressure sensor, electric switches to control everything, and an Arduino to run it all. And now we just need three more. So, I mounted all the electronics in the upper arms and legs to distribute the bulk. I rigged it so each switch on my arm controls that arm and the opposite leg. That way I can keep my center of mass between the climbers as I take each next step and curl up the wall. Not a bad first test. Yeah, the control system was terrible. The switch is burnt out. Air valve's burnt out too. Literally burning my leg. And the battery's caught on fire. Sort of smoking. But you know, could be worse. So, yet again, I fixed everything. This is better. No one knows what we're doing. Could be doing anything. It's just the cracks that I have to avoid, but I'll just rip right up. Try and do it better. You wanna hop in and do it? Let's go, dude. I'm so, like, mobile in these, you know what I mean? That's crazy, actually. I also threw in some LED indicators. So, once the suction reaches about negative nine PSI, the light'll turn on, and I know it'll hold my weight. The upper light's for my hand, and the lower light's for my leg. In the future, it'd be awesome to build in web shooters too, because I've already made a ton of those. I'm actually giving away a bunch of these mini web shooters over on my Instagram, so just follow me and like this video to win. Also, shout out to the last video's winner. You got these sweet Venom shoes. I wonder if I could crawl on the ceiling. No way. Yeah, I don't think so either. This is my entire plan. You know that scene where he's, like, sneaking into his room? I wanna do that. That was crazy, huh? I did not think that would work. That felt like some Mission Impossible ----. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that. No magnets, no, like, extra. This is just the ceiling. We can do anything to it. We gotta get the suit on, man. So, I got a suit. Problem is, the suit can't cover the climbers, because they won't be able to suction to the wall. But what we can do is cut holes for them to stick out of, then add Velcro to keep the suit fitted around the climbers. Then we put the fabric back in the middle so it blends in with the rest of the suit, because the foam seal is the only thing that actually has to touch the wall. Now, I was so excited. All I had to do was put on the suit and become a real superhero. How does it look, though? Like, the suit, like, does it look? I mean, I know I look kinda thick. Unfortunately, just like all my projects, something had to break. First, the wall. Turns out, it's really hard to climb a wall if the paint isn't attached well. Dude, the ceiling's ripping off. The more I climbed, the worse it got. Then the electronics started giving false readings. The indicator light would go on even if the pressure wasn't low enough. So I fell. A lot. This was so frustrating. It's not fair. I already had it. Like, the universe is taunting me. How did this work before? Can you stop filming? But we don't give up. So we redid all the wiring. Then for good measure, I doubled down and added another motor to each limb. This now gives me twice the suction, so now I can climb even more surfaces. Doesn't matter if they're perfectly flat. It also lets me climb faster, because now it's suctioned twice as quick, so I don't have to wait as long in between steps. So I got back in the suit and gave it one last shot. You can do this. They're wrong about you. This isn't weird. It's a real job. I was way more scared this time after falling a bunch, especially just hanging from the ceiling. Complete trust in these things. But it was all worth it, because we ended up with this. You're the Spider-Man. It is so perfect. Like, we even got the ceiling light. I love it. So, with my new and improved suit, I went back to the climbing wall to out-climb the expert Jonathan and finally earn everyone's respect. Yeah. What do you think of the fit? It looks amazing. Thank you. You look like Spider-Man. Thank you, thank you. Do you think there's any way like a human could climb this wall? Like... I don't. Okay. That's what we like to hear. I don't know how you legally want me to go for safety purposes, but there you go. Well done. Thank you. Yes! I impressed him. He's a real climber. He is a real climber. I don't know if I believe that anymore. You see the movies or the cartoons. Exactly, exactly. They're using like suction cups or like toilet plungers, but like... I know, yeah. Then we got to talking. I told him I wanted to really put these things to the test and climb a giant building, like hundreds of feet tall. All we need now is a building. Not as easy as you might think. Imagine calling buildings and trying to explain exactly what it is Hey, how's it going? Would you be open to us climbing your building in a Spider-Man suit? Yeah. Hello? Would you guys be open to Spider-Man scaling your building for a humongous, big budget film? Dangerous? That's not dangerous. The movie industry. These are motion pictures, Tony. Give me something, Tony! So after about a thousand no's, we eventually got a yes. The Andaz in West Hollywood came through and said that this guy could climb their building. But that's actually just the tip of the iceberg. Now we need insurance, someone to spot me to make sure everything's safe, and a team to film. So many back and forths with all the contracts, scouting trips to the building. We just grinded for hours, just slinging calls. Finally, everything fell into place. I was extremely nervous. My hands were literally shaking. Thankfully though, these two nice construction workers helped me get in my suit. Jake, if you die, can I have all your tools? Huh? Yeah, for the harness. Nice, look at that. I'm gonna pull it through, all right? All right. Alex. Hold this for a second. Be careful with that. Yes. If he loses that harness, he's dead. So I stepped outside to all the cameras recording and a lot of people waiting to see me scale a massive 200 foot building with some climbers I built in my garage. It's not like I've been practicing either. The highest I've ever gone was 20 feet. This is 10 times that. But sometimes you have to run before you can walk. All right, I'm gonna give it a shot, all right? Here we go, Spidey! You got it! 14 more stories! I can see myself in the glass. This is so sick. That's really sick. And he has so much longer to go up. It's like so far from over. I'm putting a lot of trust in my engineer. Can you see anyone in the windows? No, not yet. The blinds are mostly closed. Trying to make some friends. What is that, like half way? This is so crazy. This is insane. That is terrifying. I can only imagine what's going through his head right now. Spider-Man, Spider-Man, can he swing from the web? Maybe, that will be next video. It literally looks like a scene from a Spider-Man movie. Dude! With the lights and everything. One foot in front of the other. Woo! That was like actually witnessing a real superhero feat. I know. I mean, you have to like be pretty built to tie me in that. This is a tall-ass building. He didn't even use the rope at all. I know. Jake, you've inspired me once again. I would never try that. That was crazy. Jake's out of his mind. Woo! How are you feeling, Jake? Good, good, really good. That was so sick. Congrats on living! That worked way better than I thought. So good! He didn't even use the tether at all. Did you look down? Yeah, dude. That was scary as ----. I was just like, keep climbing. You did it much faster than I thought you were gonna. Me too. I thought it was gonna have way more trouble. Trying to like see in people's windows. Yeah, he's knocking on windows. Housekeeping! Did anyone call you? No, that'd be funny. I'm just like, yup, you're coming with me. Oh, the mayor of Los Angeles? Yeah, oh. What do you mean, get off the mayor? Well, that's pretty much it for this one. I don't know what more I could've possibly done. Thank you guys very much for watching. Spider-Man out.