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Climb yosemite's el captain without help to the top. this is the first time it's happened. for a day off, napping in a tent hanging off higher than the empire state building. definitely not a safe job for the sleepwalker. jeanne moos has more. >> reporter: don't look down don't look up. you are looking at climbers who have fallen. something called the don wall on the vertical rock formation el captain at yosemite national park. >> yesterday was day eight. >> reporter: it's easy to lose track of time when you're climbing a wall using your hands and feet finding min in thisuscule ledges using ho...

The sleep walker. how he is vulnerable. that's now how the students seen it. they see it as a threatening image. it is an all girls school. it may trigger memories of sexual assault in people that see it because it is a man who isn't fully dressed. other people have objected the they think it is whiteness and maleness are a real imposition on campus. somebody called it discomforting. >> all right. i will push back and play the role of the university. we want people to learn. between want people to be comfortable. if it is an ugly climate, if i'm in your face and say -- you are a big, fat, ugly...

Sleep walker is part of an art exhibit at the campus museum. some students at the all female school are asking to have the man -- a mannequin removed. they say it is a source of apprehension and fear. but the college administrators say it is meant to provoke dialogue. for now the installation will stay with the drunken selfie with hash tag, underpants guy. joe one, -- joanne would everybody be happier if it was a woman in a bra? >> if it was a woman in a brrrr they would take -- in a bra they would take it away. for some reason a guy in under underpants it funny. it is creepy, but i don't know...

Would be vandals don't even try to think about pulling down the sleep walker's underpants. they are stuptd on. the artist chose briefs over boxers partly because boxers is hard to sculpt. why the hanes brand? >> hanes was just the thing they had. >> reporter: he may never have to change that bronze underwear but change that beer hat. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> has anyone ever talked so much about a sculpture. >> that's the point. >> i say it in a very high pitched voice. >> brings it out in you. that's what the art is supposed to be about. >> it was funny. we'll re-enact it. coming up next...

Off, he's lost. >> reporter: he may seem cold but don't look for goose bumps. he's made out of bronze and took five months to sculpt. the sleep walker became a magnet for students taking selfies, putting clothes on the guy or slinging a bag over his shoulder. students made him a snowman to keep him company. the artist said he's seen kids -- >> twerking up against it. >> reporter: maybe when the pope inspect ad life-size chocolate statue of himself made by students from a chocolate making academy but even a chocolate pope doesn't even have his own facebook accounts like the sleep walker does ta...