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I'm not usually one of those people who criticise films on technical faults or implausibility, but it's just a bit hard to turn a blind eye to this one.

It's about a couple of girls who do mountain climbing; you know, hanging off cliff faces and all that.
They decide to take on an old tower for a change.  One of the girls is in a bad way, she has been drinking and been depressed for the last year, the other is trying to shake her out of it. "You got to get over your dead husband, girl".  It's got some awful dialogue - especially at the beginning with depressed girl and her poor Dad, who she illogically seems to blame.

36 hours on a pole and no tips

The tower is a remotely located TV tower which was built in the early days of television.  It is the fourth highest structure in the USA.  Now it is an unused rusty pole.  After breaking through gates and fences the gals start their ascent. Really all they are doing is climbing a ladder that is attached to it.  They reach the top and whoop and high five - and then the rusty old ladder falls away.  They are stuck there.  

They can't get phone coverage, they can only hope someone comes along, but after a while they realise that isn't going to happen.  Then one discovers something about the other which makes her think she's not such a good friend after all.  Meanwhile they have to work together to get themselves out of this dilemma.  

Their "castaway" type dilemma could make for quite good drama, and I definitely got the vertigo shivers at times.  Some of their frustrated ideas weren't bad,  but really I couldn't help thinking: Its not that much of an achievement to ascend a tower that technicians probably ascended for years on a monthly maintenance schedule, so getting up there was hardly amazing.  

As for getting down again I had to ask - why didn't they slide down the anchor wires that were clearly visible in the establishing shots? Also, at one stage they shimmied up part of the pole, so why didn't they use a length of rope to wrap round the pole and shimmy down it?  But, if you put those, and a heap of other questions, aside you might enjoy watching a couple of girls in tight clothing showing lots of cleavage performing on a pole. Hmmmm, where have I seen that before?