Does climbing the pole provide benefits to any person anywhere?
Any Plant, Animal or Mineral? Does any inanimate object benefit from the climbing?
Are they tending to vines climbing a terrace?
Are they looking for something, or at something, once up on the pole?
And just to be sure, they are not Polish, are they?
Anything to do with Gibraltar?
**Liam and his friends/colleagues have a very odd daily routine. They climb a pole to the top every day, wait awhile, then climb back down and go about their business. Why is this?
**
Does doing the thing they do while on top of the pole benefit anyone? Any living entity or groups of entities?
no
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I’m sorry I keep harping on this but I want to make sure I have the bit that it’s not a military duty clear.
If Liam woke up one morning, decided he’d had enough of Pole climbing and said to his fellow troops “Hey guys, I think I’m done with pole-climbing. No more poles for me.” there would be no official repercussions. No reprimands nothing of that nature? IOW, this isn’t something the military is making him do?
Conversely,
The officers and government of their country is fine with soldiers neglecting their actual duties just to sit on top of a pole, even though it doesn’t benefit them or their country?
I’m going to try to answer with more detail to help things along.
Don’t feel bad harping on it. You are certainly getting to what makes this lateral puzzle pretty good. It’s hard to understand or think of this situation in a way that makes sense.
Is it a contest of some sort, or training therefor?
In this European country, does doing this, or having done this, help get you girls?
Is this taking place now, in the 21st century?
If not was it ended in the 20th century,
19th century,
etc., etc,
Do they believe they are helping themselves or do they think they are helping other people?
Is there religious significance to the climbing? Is it cultural superstition?
**Liam and his friends/colleagues have a very odd daily routine. They climb a pole to the top every day, wait awhile, then climb back down and go about their business. Why is this?
**
NO
NO
17th and 18th centuries
Were they climbing the pole in order to observe something?
Did they wear kilts?
Was this activity ever halted due to harsh weather conditions?
Did they climb together or one at a time?
Are they trying to avoid something they think will make them sick?
Are they in their home country?
Are the soldiers climbing during wartime / peacetime / both?
Is the benefit to themselves related to good luck?
safety?
wealth?
job performance?
ending the war?
winning the war?
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Were they trying to get something that would make them healthy?
Fresh air?
Sunshine?
When we have solved the puzzle, will we recognize “they climb a pole” as something more familiar, or will we have understood an unusual practice that existed then that will be unfamiliar? Or something else?
“They climb a pole” means they literally went up a pole as we understand that phrase in English. Picture a pole, perhaps metal or wooden. Now picture someone climbing to the top of it. Now picture him coming back down. Your picture is accurate enough I would bet.
However, let me answer your broader question. **You will have understood an unusual practice that existed and is probably unfamiliar to you. **
I just wanted to make sure you understood “climb a pole” means literally climbing a pole.
So, men who are in the military in Europe in the 17th to 18th centuries were in the habit of climbing a pole each day in order to avoid becoming sick or to help become healthier.
Did climbing the pole give them access to something that wasn’t on the ground?
Were they trying to get away from something that was on the ground?
Does the advancement of medicine prove that their efforts were not effective?
Does it have to do with diseases that were common at that time?