No professional pilot on a commercial op. would engage in reckless endangerment by intentionally placing their craft close to an obstruction in marginal weather and the sentence implies the opposite.
Hmm! How professional? Senior Helo Test Pilot professional enough? Mid December in Service twin en-route through the Low Countries, cloud base <200', short of fuel and therefore flying at max speed, routing prepared by a different crew takes us within 400 yds of a television Tx mast of 1346' (yes, I remember it!!) vis variable about 100-200 yds, flying underneath power lines, no icing clearance, so can't climb, too low to get VOR lock-on so position VERY uncertain ....... etc., etc., Long time ago - '70s but 'get-home-itis' was in control and decision making is not necessarily of the best in crap weather. Relevant? - not necessarily, but 'professionalism' is no GUARANTEE of anything.