Hoover Dam High Scaler
Image by pecooper98362
Artist Steven Liguori, American
Sculpture Bronze, 1998
A sculpture of a one of the men who dangled from the top of the canyon while Hoover Dam was being built. They were called High Scalers. Their job was to climb down the canyon walls on ropes. Here they worked with jackhammers and dynamite to strip away the loose rock. The men who chose to do this work came from many backgrounds. Some were former sailors, some circus acrobats, some were American Indians. All of them were agile men, unafraid to swing out over empty space on slender ropes.
