This article is from WeChat official account:GQ Lab (ID: GQZHIZU), planning: Rocco, editor: Chen Go, interview and writing: Yue Zixuan, Changxin, Chen Go, illustration: Toby never sleeps, visual: aube, original title: “I work at the top of Regal Shopping Mall”, source of head image: aube
It takes about 50 seconds to take the elevator from the first floor to the 30th floor, but it takes several hours to wipe from the outer wall of the 30th floor to the first floor at a time. This is the time concept of Li Guoxu, the spider man.
He likes the safety of standing on the ground, and he also likes the comfort of hanging high above the city. Becoming a spiderman is his way of climbing the city, living in the basement.
At the end of October, he came to SKP, the most popular shopping mall for the wealthy in Beijing. After wiping the building, he set off for Beijing.
October 29, Beijing, the highest temperature was 19 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature was 3 degrees Celsius, overcast to sunny, and northwest wind was level 1. For Li Guoxu, this is the best weather.
Li Guoxu is a high-rise building exterior wall cleaning operator, commonly known as “Spiderman”. This job has very high requirements on the weather conditions: it is too cloudy to be able to see the stains because of insufficient light; it cannot be used on rainy days because it will be wiped for nothing; it cannot be used on a windy day with a windy degree of 4, which is only on the ground. The wind that can blow up dust and leaves, at a height of forty or fifty stories, can blow people up to seven or eight meters before throwing them back. It’s okay if there is a suction cup that can be fixed, if not, you can only hold the rope. A worker encountered a sudden gust of wind when he was working in Guizhou last year. To control his balance, he twisted his waist and suffered pain for a whole year.
At this moment, Li Guoxu is on the top floor of SKP-S, doing the final preparations before descending.
His work equipment probably has: 2 ropes-working rope, life-saving rope