Albert Stalk dazzled French television audiences when he climbed the Eiffel Tower without any safety equipment back in 1990. The retired Kanien’kehá:ka ironworker reflects back on the daring feat.
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Like many in Kahnawà:ke, Stalk comes from a line of ironworkers, following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and uncles. His community is renowned for their skills in the trade. Allan Downey is Dakelh from Nak’azdli Whut’en in B.C. and an associate professor in the Department of History and Indigenous Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. Stalk didn’t always have a feel for steel and said it was apparent on his first job, bolting together girders on a five storey building.But after a while, he stopped worrying about the height.
When one won an award, the production company invited Stalk and his wife Ann Diabo-Stalk, who were newlyweds at the time, to the awards ceremony in 1989 in Paris. He sat inside the hole of a girder to eat a croissant and at one point took a brief nap while waiting for the film crew.
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