Take the 'Death Stairs' if You Dare

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Take the ‘Death Stairs’ if You Dare
A Facebook page, which began among a few friends, has grown into a popular photo collection of hazardous stairs.


A staircase made of pipe fittings at Kevin Reid’s childhood home in Dublin, Ireland. Each tread can accommodate only one step at a time. Kevin Reid


By Amanda Holpuch
Nov. 13, 2024
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Kevin Reid knew the bright green staircase in his childhood home was a bit bizarre: It was made of pipe fittings and looked more like a ladder.

The quirky staircase was just a part of his upbringing until it found a global audience in April after it was featured on the Facebook group Death Stairs, a page that has nearly 800,000 members and describes itself as a place “where ascension is perilous and descending is deadly.”

What qualifies for inclusion on the page takes many forms. Among the highlights: narrow, triangle-shaped steps, a glass spiral staircase with mirrored walls and steep wooden stairs carved into a New Zealand cliff face.

Mr. Reid had never thought of the steps at his childhood home as death stairs. His father had built the staircase as part of a two-story addition to the back of the house. ... “I wouldn’t do it in sock soles, but you can fairly rush down them and they make a nice ringing sound when you go down them,” Mr. Reid said. “They’re solid.”


The stairs lead to a two-story addition Mr. Reid’s father built.


The stairs are made of pipe fittings and make a “nice ringing sound,” Mr. Reid said. Kevin Reid

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[Ilikepurple]

1. I think not. Even the downshot photo makes me a bit queasy.

I probably wouldn’t mind climbing them as much as coming down.

[Emile]

2. Steep too, no thanks.

[Kali]

3. kind of like a ship ladder

have some friends that used them to get to loft. weird but you get used to them after a few times.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. I have climbed more of those

That I care to remember.🤣