How Henry Jenkins W7DIZ Built His Rig during the Storm on Tillamook Rock -- How Many Hams Could Do This Today?

See yesterday's SolderSmoke Daily News.  

The above article is from the February 1935 QST, pages 45-46: 

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/QST/30s/QST-1935-02.pdf

How many modern hams could do this or something similar today?