In less than half an hour they did it, all six of them - climbed Sydney Tower from toe to tip - capping off a massively successful fundraising drive for motor neurone disease (MND).
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It was the same team who wowed the audience at the Ex-Services Club with their Full Monty dance routine on Friday November 1.
Last Friday, they travelled to Sydney for the big event on Saturday, when 600 "firies" from throughout NSW climbed the 1504 steps of the Sydney Tower "Eye" (the central core staircase).
On their journey to to Sydney on Friday they called in at the Concord Burns Unit to visit a Cootamundra girl who is recovering there from burns she sustained in an accident in her home.
The fund-raising effort by the Cootamundra team has been outstandingly successful, with the total now having reached $26,800, second in NSW only to the Sydney-based Davidson RFS Unit, which had 18 team members and did fund-raising in densely populated areas such as the Pitt Street Mall.
Spokesman Jeremy Annetts said the team did much, much better than they originally expected.
"We thought we'd get around $3,000 and ends up with nearly $27,000 - it's just an awesome thing to happen," he said, adding a reminder that it's still not too late to donate thought the Facebook page of Fire and Rescue NSW Station 266.
Mr Annetts said three of the team made it up the tower in 22 minutes, while for the other three it took 27-28 minutes.
With each climber wearing over 20kg of fire-fighting gear they were "pretty buggered" by the time they got to the last of the Tower's 98 flights.
After arriving in the Sydney CBD and pre-registering on Friday afternoon, the six men went out for tea at Darling Harbour while sizing up the tower from a distance.
Mr Annetts says there are no plans to repeat this year's Full Monty routine, but they're thinking about something else that may or may not involve dancing for another fund raiser next year.
"It's a hard act to follow, a sort of one-off thing, I don't think we could ever do what we did on that one night again, but it depends - we'll just see where it comes."