Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Good with heights?
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marshmella
Guru
- Location
- Telford, Shropshire
Turned my stomach over watching that. I have no head for heights, in fact in my avatar picture i'm in a cable car going over the Great Orme in Llandudno, not very high and i'm putting on my bravest face 
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
I only managed a minute or two but that was because it was so boring. 
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
balls of steel them two, ball of steel
no way I wold change the light bulb, I would send the wife !
no way I wold change the light bulb, I would send the wife !
Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
Watch it again and have the volume up this time, he's free climbing, he uses the harness when he stops for a rest
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
No problem. still have a pair of pole spikes somewhere from my time at MANWEB. I have the opportunity to go to the top of the shard shortly. am really lkooking forward to it
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
My younger son erects Pylons for the National Grid. He says that once you are over about 30' you stop worrying about going any higher as from 30' or 300' if you fall you are dead. The safety lines they use mean you would need to fall, and the lines would need to fail for you to fall anyway so he doesn't worry. There again he has always had a head for heights, while I haven't, although in my younger days I did a bit of rock climbing. These days I'm confined to the ground due to uncertain balance.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
A friend of mine does this for a living in Australia.
A couple of pics he sent me
He could do with a new pair of steelies, not that it would make much of a difference if he plummeted 3 million feet to the ground mind.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
that was my 1st thought. long time since i worked in an RF environment. like you said not much use if you fall anyhoo
OP
OP
Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
I'm with you, can't do heights at all.
Funnily enough, although I love water, the sense of crossing very deep water gives me slight feelings of vertigo. When you go over the edge of a reef on a small boat and the depth drops away from 6' to 130'+ it makes me feel a little giddy until I've got used to it. No sense in that whatsoever!
Alan Frame
Gnu
- Location
- Lost In Space
As a vertigo sufferer I thought I would apply the face-your-fears principle by forcing myself to watch this.
I can confirm that the principle does not work.
I can confirm that the principle does not work.
hoopdriver
Guru
- Location
- East Sussex
I remember watching Phillippe Petit do his tightrope walk between the World Trade Centre towers more than 40 years ago. The photo of him laying on his back, in the middle if the rope, unharnessed, with his pole balanced on his belly and a backdrop of skyscrapers hundreds of feet below still gives me the willies.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
I seem to recall one of CC's intellectual types starting a thread on this a while back - oh yes, here it is.
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/man-on-wire-twin-towers-wire-walk-film.35894/
