nobody gets to be up there. that s just an awe-inspiring moment. the engineers have a rare bird s-eye view of the nation s capital. one thing we got to watch was the president flying through. we all waved at him. i don t know if he was waving back or not. but eric and his colleagues don t have many time for sight-seeing. they have work to do. they examine the marble blocks using ipads to compare xt cracks in each stone with a survey of the monument done in 1999. down below tourists and assembled media can t stop staring at the climbers. it must take a lot of guts. amazing, fascinating, a piece of history. the onlookers witness an alarming moment when eric is caught by the wind and swept 30 feet off the wall banging into the hard surface of the monument. a gust that came out of nowhere. it was so fast, i didn t really have any thought of what was going on. i was trying to keep my ropes from slicing around the side of