--- description: As any Marvel Comics fan knows, climbing the 1,454 ft. west face of Chicago's Sears Tower is a job for Spider-Man. Still, early-morning crowds outside the world's tallest building last week... title: Going Up, Up, Up image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Going Up, Up, Up by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 8, 1981 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 8, 1981 4:00 AM CUT As any Marvel Comics fan knows, climbing the 1,454 ft. west face of Chicago’s Sears Tower is a job for Spider-Man. Still, early-morning crowds outside the world’s tallest building last week were amazed to see, high above them, Professional Stuntman Daniel Goodwin, 25, decked out in the bright red-and-blue costume of that nimble comic-book hero. With 40-m.p.h. winds whipping around him and 50 Ibs. of climbing equipment on his back, Goodwin made the ascent in some 7½ hrs. He hoisted himself on metal hooks that he wedged into the slots designed to hold window-washing scaffolds. When one of those scaffolds was placed in his path, Goodwin simply moved sideways, grabbing suction cups that he placed on the windows. Said he: “There was a coat of grease on the windows to keep them from getting scratched. Every time I got a cup on, it would slide after about ten seconds.” Goodwin’s victorious arrival at the top of the 110-story Sears building proved a bit of a comedown—he was arrested for disorderly conduct. After being released on $35 bail, he vowed: “There will be more stunts to come.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6856424/going-up-up-up/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6856424/going-up-up-up/"},"headline":"Going Up, Up, Up","datePublished":"1981-06-08T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T15:53:37.220Z","description":"As any Marvel Comics fan knows, climbing the 1,454 ft. west face of Chicago's Sears Tower is a job for Spider-Man. Still, early-morning crowds outside the world's tallest building last week...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6856424/going-up-up-up/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6856424/going-up-up-up/","name":"Going Up, Up, Up"}}]}] ```