Will you become a ghoul from climbing a radio tower?

[Braeden Hamson]

Fallout references aside, my friend showed me this video of these base jumpers who climbed a transmission tower:

And it got me thinking, is the radiation coming off this tower strong enough for it to be unhealthy to be that close for the time it'd take to climb?

 

[Bluejets]

I'd say off hand that the brain cells it might affect are already dead.

 

[shrtrnd]

Fortunately, the radiated power should have been enough to have sterilized them. So there won't be any progeny from them to compete for a Darwin Award.

 

[Braeden Hamson]

Hahaha, you guys are savage

 

[FuZZ1L0G1C]

A long time ago, there was an article in a rag-mag about an RF technician who developed skin cancer, then sued his employers for compensation, as he worked for long periods near live commercial VHF transmitters.
In another case, a guy allegedly received second-degree burns on exposed skin areas while working in the parabola of a large microwave transmitting ground-dish. Think they said it was a radio telescope or satellite link. If true it must have been a departmental communication breakdown.
EDIT:
Wiki has an interesting article on "current" research done on this topic, outlining various frequencies, heavy theory into sodium ions, etc.