WWF CN Tower Climb

I'll be hiking up the CN Tower for the 4th time in 5 years on April 14, 2009. This time it will be for the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and the first time I will be doing it with a group fully comprised of work people, most of whom are "first timers".

Little do they know, they'll all be crying at the 50th flight, with 2/3 more to go (muhahaha). I hope that the motivation of "Chez Cora's" Bobby Button crepe is enough to pull them through. Otherwise, they'll have to cling to the puke ridden walls, praying for a paramedic to take them out of their misery. Ok I digress ...

So naturally, being an informational geek, I went online to find out some stats about our beloved T dot landmark. Here are some of the cooler things I found.

• The CN Tower was built by the Canadian National Railway. Hence the "CN" (doh).
• Height of the Tower is: 553.33 meters (1,815 ft., 5 inches)
• Original cost: $63 million. Adjusted cost (1999 dollars): $260 million.
• Total construction time: 40 months-Number of construction workers: 1,537
• Speed of elevators: 6 metres/sec (20 feet/sec)-
• Lightning strikes the CN Tower an average of 75 times per year
• The 360 Restaurant makes a complete rotation every 72 minutes

I was contemplating wearing a beaver pelt while doing the climb but was afraid that the WWF animal activists would crack me over the head with a seal club. Ooh .. the irony.

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