scared of heights?

[Archie F. Swin]

A tv/radio tower worker, while doing an inspection on our station's rig last summer, took this photo. He's on or very close to the top of our 1,030 foot tower. In fact, he's standing on the antenna! Whatever you do...dont look down! I've heard these guys have pretty high insurance premiums


Oh, Hell no! (http://cuddinfish.homestead.com/files/towertop.jpg)

[bkkcoh]

There isn't any way at all that I would do something like that. It makes my stomach flutter just looking at the picture..


I don't have any issues with airplanes or tall buildings, just something like that is :Lin:

[Fairplay]

I couldn't do that type of work for a living. Getting on top of my house is enough for me.

Though going into hi rise buildings, doesn't bother me.

[ZootedGranny]

I used to have a pretty intense fear of heights, which has somehow dissipated even though I've fallen 20 feet a couple of times, and 40 feet when I was a kid. All three times I was supposedly "secured."

Now it's more of a fear of falling, you can't get me close to an edge anywhere elevated. My brother was at the Grand Canyon throwing rocks off the edge of a cliff, I had trouble standing 10 feet from the edge.

Yet, I'd like to skydive.

[Kris Kringle]

I think I COULD climb up there, but I'd be shaking like a leaf. I would assume they are teathered for safety reasons.

[morphius]

I used to have a pretty intense fear of heights, which has somehow dissipated even though I've fallen 20 feet a couple of times, and 40 feet when I was a kid. All three times I was supposedly "secured."

Now it's more of a fear of falling, you can't get me close to an edge anywhere elevated. My brother was at the Grand Canyon throwing rocks off the edge of a cliff, I had trouble standing 10 feet from the edge.

Yet, I'd like to skydive.
I'm like that as well, can't get me near an edge of a cliff or large drop. Though I like to hike in the MT's and think skydiving would be fun, and have absolutly no fear of flying. Though I have never fallen like you.

[picasso]

I don't think it would bother me much. I think I could do that. When I was in Alaska on the fishing boats, several times I had to cross from boat to boat in the middle of the berring sea without the aid of a rope or a crossing deck. You had to jump across about 8 feet. If you fell it was about 35 feet to the icey water below and smashed between the boats. There were plenty of other scarey times up there as well. So I think I could do that.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Check this one out..... on the top of a tower which is on top of another tower......yikes....

[BIG_DADDY]

I tried hangliding so no I have no issues there. I decided to switch an get my pilots license but only made it to going solo before I ran out of time and chingo. I will finish that when the funds and time free up again though.

[ZepSinger]

I used to have a pretty intense fear of heights,
Yet, I'd like to skydive.

I used to be terrified of heights- then I did 5 jumps from 5,000 ft. As long as I have a parachute on my back, I'm cool. But I won't climb up a 20 ft ladder to save my life.

[htismaqe]

I hate heights...and depths.

Don't like airplanes or open water at all.

[Nzoner]

I can do without heights as well,however,whenever given the opportunity I'll do some things to proove to myself I can do it,like taking the skylift across the Royal Gorge.As for skydiving,that would be a NO.

[DenverChief]

Check this one out..... on the top of a tower which is on top of another tower......yikes....:Lin:

[Rain Man]

Check this one out..... on the top of a tower which is on top of another tower......yikes....


Holy freaking ****. I'm glad I brought extra pants to work today.



I'm okay with heights as long as I can hang on to something with my hands. If I can't do that, I get really nervous.

A couple of years ago, I was at the Grand Canyon at a time when it was practically deserted. My wife and I were walking along the edge of an enormous dropoff when we came upon a herd of deer. I don't really know how to read deer, but the buck had his head down and was coming toward us, and we were between him and the dropoff. I cleared the area pretty fast, because it would really be annoying to be pushed off a thousand-foot drop by a wild animal.

[Baby Lee]

Quite the opposite, I LOVE heights. I love the change in perspective. I love the ability to see farther. I probably woudn't be any good for those types of jobs because I'd get up there and daydream. When I was little, I'd search out the tallest trees in the area and climb as far as the branches would support me and sit there all afternoon. My fondest memory of my first trip to NYC was sitting in a plaintiff's counsel meeting at Milberg Weiss, who had a gorgeous view from the 49th floor of One Penn Plaza.
That picture beer me posted is more like porn to me.

[JimNasium]

I climbed a LORAN tower that was similar in height when I was in the Coast Guard. You are actually hooked onto the tower with a safety harness and a racheting device will catch you if you slip. The only thing that bothered me was the wind but I was never in fear of falling.

[Saulbadguy]

http://www.deagan.com/Images/Photos/topeka_high_school.jpg

This is my old high school. There is a bell tower up there, and there are a couple old rickety wooden ladders I had to climb up to get to the very top. Climbing up them was no big deal..but climbing down them..:Lin:

I was quite nervous...

[CHIEF4EVER]

Being afraid of heights didn't stop me from jumping out of airplanes. If anything, it made me respect the safety rules even more.

[Baby Lee]

[img]This is my old high school.
You were a Topeka Seaman?

Come on Seamen. Cream them Trojans!!!

[Saulbadguy]

You were a Topeka Seaman?

Come on Seamen. Cream them Trojans!!!
Haha. That is a running joke around here, but Topeka High is the Topeka High Trojans. Seaman is up north, and they are the Vikings.

[Baby Lee]

Haha. That is a running joke around here, but Topeka High is the Topeka High Trojans. Seaman is up north, and they are the Vikings.
I went to a mock trial seminar type thing at Washburn back in JHS, and one of the other participants was from the area and regaled us with that anecdote.

[Bearcat]

That picture beer me posted is more like porn to me.

I guess you can die peacefully knowing that your family can go through the files on your computer and think nothing more than "He really likes the view from above".

[cdcox]

Could probably do the first picture with a safety harness and sufficient motivation (say $1000). Second picture, no way.

Like many, I' OK with heights as long as I can hold on to something solid. I was helping a friend roof a couple years ago. On one side of the roof, the deck was like 8 ft below. On the other side was 30' to the ground. I was okay on the short side, but too nervous to be useful on the long side. If the roof were flat I would have been fine. But the combination of the pitch, no good way to hang on, and the drop were too much for me.

[ROYC75]

:shake: No way Jose ! :shake:

[Baby Lee]

I guess you can die peacefully knowing that your family can go through the files on your computer and think nothing more than "He really likes the view from above".
You know, I'm just short of 1/2 Choctaw, but I look as limey and pasty as they come. But when I see those pictures of the Indians hired as iron workers on skyscraper construction, I finally get a sense of cultural connectedness. I'd have loved that job.

[Brock]

Quite the opposite, I LOVE heights. I love the change in perspective. I love the ability to see farther. I probably woudn't be any good for those types of jobs because I'd get up there and daydream.

I get a little shakey putting up my holiday lights. No way you'd get me up there.

[Chiefnj]

I fall into the "I'm okay as long as I can hold onto something group." I can climb ladders, trees, go on roofs, etc., but if I'm hiking in the mountains and come to a big cliff I don't like to peer off the edge; it gives me the jitters.

[bkkcoh]

:shake: No way Jose ! :shake:



Are you afraid that you might have a heart condition, or atleast an anxiety attack up there.... :thumb: :shake: