After around ten trips up the mast, our skipper Justin Taylor, 31, decided the only way to get it down was to remove the 80-foot steel cable supporting the mast.

BBC: Braving the elements

At first sight, the 50m-high metal cage appears to be little more than makeshift scaffolding, and with only six discrete steel cables supporting the structure, the sway of the platform is quite noticeable, even in a gentle breeze.

BBC: Brunei��s wild riches

Later repairs found that supporting steel had been left out by the builder and concrete had been poorly reinforced.

WSJ: A Marriage of Nature and Art

There are said to be more than 156 kilometers of double track checker plate steel creating drivable roads in the sand and more than 4, 000 hollow steel floating pontoons supporting 18 temporary bridges spanning the Ganga and Yamuna.

FORBES: Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

He slipped a long, ribbonlike building along the contours of the ridge, supporting it on cantilevered steel columns.

NEWYORKER: Laboratory Conditions

The towers were "built as a pipe, " with the steel frame of its exterior facade supporting the buildings, he told CNN.

CNN: Debate begins on rebuilding towers

The battery support is also constructed from aluminium, the frame and oval piping is made from steel, while the seat is self-supporting.

ENGADGET: BMW unveils concept Husqvarna Concept E-go electric motorcycle