Fear of heights?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gLDYtH1RH-U

These guys are insane. literally.

Fear of heights? Nope, I rock climb.

No. Just no.

Fear of heights or fear of falling?

They are two different entities. I have the latter.

Yep, I sure do. Had to stop watching the video when they got on the crane.

EDIT: I might do better in person, but also maybe not. I imagine there is a good bit of sway in the wind on that thing once you get way up there.

Fear of heights? Not particularly.

Fear of dying while videoing a stupid stunt? Yes.

berkeley that.

I'm clumsy, I know I am. Pretty sure that's where my fear of heights comes from. Don't trust myself not to do something stupid and fall down

Some of the stuff these guys climb is ultra sketchy..

Ho lee crap!

I definitely have a fear of that many stairs.

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: Some of the stuff these guys climb is ultra sketchy..

Hanging off the side of buildings? One handed?

http://youtu.be/FWfi8UlUZpg

I have what I call a fear of "moderate" heights, above an 80 ft drop of so the fear disappears. I have 14 base jumps under my belt with the lowest height above deck being 344ft.

I'm almost back down to a weight where I could use my 68 Sq ft chute again and get back into base jumping once I'm physically able to again. I have a list of places that I'm already considering.

someone had to build that stuff, so they climb out there all the time.

During the climb up you're all excited...and then you have to get down....

Fear, yes. A desire to conquer that fear, also yes.

This is what I do for a living.

I am not afraid of heights

In my younger years I was one of the "tower monkeys" for the local amateur radio community. Tallest tower I climbed was 350'. That was far enough for me.

Fear of heights, debatable. Fear of falling, sure. Fear of chinese prison? Yeah we dont berkeley with that.

Not fear of heights, but respect for the danger has increased over time. About my mid 30's was when I started to think about it.

Depends on the situation - in the glass-floor Skydeck at the (former) Sears Tower...no problem. Standing along the edge of the Grand Canyon with a long steep drop, no guardrail, and the wind at my back...not a berkeleying chance!

I used to be less afraid of heights on my bike that otherwise. I've done ~12' blind drop to a slope before, but I'm old and no longer heal now. I have no problem climbing out the access hatch onto our flat roof about 25' in the air, but I can't get within 4' of the ledge. I don't trust myself on anything with much of a slope though, nor can I really do more than 8' on a ladder either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcQbGZauJtM

and then there is this guy

petegossett wrote: Depends on the situation - in the glass-floor Skydeck at the (former) Sears Tower...no problem. Standing along the edge of the Grand Canyon with a long steep drop, no guardrail, and the wind at my back...not a berkeleying chance! I used to be *less* afraid of heights on my bike that otherwise. I've done ~12' blind drop to a slope before, but I'm old and no longer heal now. I have no problem climbing out the access hatch onto our flat roof about 25' in the air, but I can't get within 4' of the ledge. I don't trust myself on anything with much of a slope though, nor can I really do more than 8' on a ladder either.

Yeah, it's the wind that really does it, isn't it?

I've also done stupid E36 M3 with bikes and heights, probably because the trails around here all followed ridgelines by the river valley so you dealt with it or you didn't ride. Having a trail to keep focused on helps too - what drop? I'm looking at the stump i'm going to hop over 10 feet away.

Pssshh. If I were a crazy Russian dressed like a Ninja, I would have gotten my ass kicked as soon as I left the sidewalk.

I climb and hang off of, under, through trussing to focus lights. Sometimes my legs are hanging out the top and my arms and sticking through the bottom to get at some of them

mad_machine wrote: I climb and hang off of, under, through trussing to focus lights. Sometimes my legs are hanging out the top and my arms and sticking through the bottom to get at some of them

Yeah... stage crew in high school pretty much cured my fear of heights. Hanging off catwalks 40+ feet to fix lights with another kid sitting on my legs to keep me from falling... safety harness? Never heard of them...

When walking on roofs, I try to think of the physics of grip and weight distribution. I've generally accepted that my balance ain't what it used to be 25+ years ago.

Anyway... some more vertigo inducing video from our favorite bicycle trials nut: Danny MacAskill - Cascadia

Fear of Heights? Not at all.

Fear of Falling? No, it is actually quite enjoyable.

Fear of hitting the pavement at 200 mph? Severe.

pinchvalve wrote: Fear of Heights? Not at all. Fear of Falling? No, it is actually quite enjoyable. Fear of hitting the pavement at 200 mph? Severe.

You're right though. I've only fallen about 30 feet and it happens so quickly you almost can't process it before it's over. Now when your forearms are burning and you're quickly losing grip strength and you know you're about to take a huge fall...that kinda sucks.