After seven series of the endurance obstacle course TV show American Ninja Warrior nobody has ever completed the event to the very end, except of course until now.

Isaac Caldiero, a rock climbing, busboy, defeated the course and then climbed up a very long rope three seconds faster than the other guy and walked away with a tidy sum of $1m.

Incidentally that obstacle he crosses in the video called the Pole Grasper reminded me of a wee woman who used to live in my street, who had a propensity to make a grab for your genitals whenever she was close enough.