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“Of course you need a head for heights.”
Nikolaos Andreopoulos, Foreman
“Safety first,” says Nikolaos Andreopoulos, checking the karabiner
on his safety rope before he climbs over the bridge railings and abseils down 52 meters.
Andreopoulos is the foreman of the maintenance team, a job that demands skills more usual in
the Alps. Sometimes he abseils down from the bridge deck to check bridge sections, sometimes
he climbs up one of the 160-meter pylons. Don’t you ever feel dizzy up there? “No,” laughs
Andreopoulos, “it’s everyday routine for us.” It makes you ask yourself what it would take to
make Andreopoulos lose sleep ...