Stunned onlookers watched in disbelief at the scene at the major station.
The woman taking on the Waverley Station escalator.
A bizarre video has gone viral showing a woman battling her way up an escalator that’s going the opposite way.
The clip, posted to TikTok on Sunday, August 17, has already racked up more than 381,000 views, reports Edinburgh Live.
It appears to show the determined woman taking on a gruelling two-minute duel with the moving stairs at Edinburgh’s Waverley Station.
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Stunned onlookers couldn’t believe their eyes as the drama unfolded. A man with a West Coast accent captured the incident on camera, clearly baffled by what he was witnessing.
Commuters travelling down the escalator seemed unfazed by the unusual sight.
Despite a shaky start, the woman began to find her rhythm around the one-minute mark, inching closer to the top.
But just as she was about to reach the top of the escalators, she trips and is dragged back down the stairs – before a kind passerby stepped in to help her back on her feet.
Refusing to give in, the determined woman dug deep, putting her leg muscles through the wringer as she fought to regain her lost ground.
By the end of the clip, a crowd had gathered below, cheering her on as she finally conquered the escalator.
Viewers found the funny side, flooding the comments section, with one person saying: “Well that escalated slowly.”
Meanwhile another added: “Everyone is laughing but people pay £60 a month to do that in a gym.”
Someone else posted: “Thank God you didn’t stop video before she made it the suspense would of killed me.”
While another said: “It’s annoying me how many people who were in her way and didn’t move, couldn’t they see which was trying to achieve something.”