Anyone scared of heights? (non-shite related)

[Station]

 

Don't know how people do this, I'd have to be removed via crowbar, even just looking at it makes me dizzy!

[Guest]

Hey Bollox, get off the side of that building! That landcrab isn't going to sort itself.

[ChinaTom]

I don't think I'd be too bad at that height - let's face it if you fall from there, you'll have time for at least 2 "last fags". But yes, I hate heights - anything over 15 feet and I'm a jelly with a leach-like grip on anything/one.Worst thing for me (worse than that photo in fact) is walking at height on gantry steel walkways when there are several visible stories underneath you - all moving at different rates as you walk. But, in my job I have to do this a lot. Never gets any easier.I guarantee that if I have a nightmare, it'll be heights related.

[trigger]

Sod that for a laugh, You would never get me up there.

 

Nore would you find me driving this!

 

 

 

 

[Rusty Pelican]

Dont do heights , im gripping my desk just looking at that piccy , WTF are they doing

[Cavcraft]

Not for me either.It scares the hell out of me watching the scaff's going up the columns/stacks at work and in some cases abseiling off them.Used to almost plop myself climbing up storage tanks on proper access steps so would be no use up in the sky like that.

[Timewaster]

Despite my job being specifically on ground level, my company insisted I did a training course on one of these:

 

 

I thought I'd be ok untill the assesment. The instructor got us into the bucket and said:

"Take it up as far as it will go!"

 

It occured to me at that point that the time to mention I didn't like heights had passed.

 

Apparently I looked like one of these:

 

I'll never know how I managed it. Hope I never have to do it again.

[Stixy]

 

Don't know how people do this, I'd have to be removed via crowbar, even just looking at it makes me dizzy!

I have nightmares about this sort of thing

[pompei]

That character who tight roped across the Twin Towers (forget his name ) was asked in an interview if he looked down. "Of course", he replied, "there'd be no point in doing it otherwise".

[pogweasel]

Don't necessarily like it, but not so shit-scared that I have to be winched down by the fire brigade.

 

Worked at Canary Wharf during construction phase of the HSBC & Citigroup towers and had to ascend / descend in cage lifts up the outside of the building, quite fun really.

 

Also I have done all the 'confined space' training, which is interesting, all smoke-filled tunnels and breathing apparatus.

 

Goes with the job that sometimes you have to do daft stuff that quickens the pulse.

[fotorabia]

the ultimate in vertigo...ive done this twice..once in 1990..and then again in 92..and we werent wimps and used no climbing equipment..also last time was in the dark..

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/sho ... hp?t=37869

[pandamonium]

I hate ladders, but I'll climb up a solid structure. I often free climb up the 7m rack at work. Health and Safety would have a fit! Oh , wait. I'm also H&S manager...

[warren t claim]

Until last year I had absolutely NO fear of heights. I used to believe that if an area if big enough to stand on then there is no way I can fall.But for some reason I have developed vertigo over the last 12 months and I dont know why.

[barrett]

the ultimate in vertigo...ive done this twice..once in 1990..and then again in 92..and we werent wimps and used no climbing equipment..also last time was in the dark..http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/sho ... hp?t=37869

That place looks incredible, i wish i had the balls to do stuff like that. Is it you on that forum saying you did it on 'shrooms? cos if you are, then you are a 100% top drawer nutcase, for which i salute you sir. Going to a shop or putting on a record on mushrooms is hard enough for me, but that......

[Station]

I used to be fine with heights, but I used to do that 'Urban Exploration' thing years ago, and used to always end up 'white knuckle' climbing up scaffolding and the like, and I think that started it. 'Don't look down'! I've abseiled before which was 'thrilling' and no problem, and used to shoot up trees like a monkey when I was a kid. I can't look over the railings on the top floor in the Trafford Centre though. Wierd!

[barrett]

That last one is awesome Tayne.....

[j-j]

I'm 'nervous' at precarious heights but don't think I'm freak out scared..

 

 

 

Those stairs aren't very well attached at the top...

 

Tayne, I recognise these two locations (I think) - esp the ruined castle(?) one - reminds me of one on the Ayrshire coast but might be wrong. The second one seems familiar too - where is it?

[Pillock]

Is that last one the CN Tower in Canada?I love heights. It's gotta be something "safe", i.e. something that people do all the time so I'll quite happily abseil supervised off some big rocky things, but I wouldn't take it upon myself to climb onto the house roof.I'd quite like to skydive at some point in my life.

[andrew e]

Don't necessarily like it, but not so shit-scared that I have to be winched down by the fire brigade.

 

Worked at Canary Wharf during construction phase of the HSBC & Citigroup towers and had to ascend / descend in cage lifts up the outside of the building, quite fun really.

We must have passed in those shitty cage lifts Pog!

 

Daftest thing I did was crawl across cable tray 60 foot up hung off unistrut.....

[andrew e]

Did an oil change in a transformer on top of one of those silos at that gaff right outside the south entrance for the Blackwall tunnel too...

[whitevanman]

I have no fear of hights what so ever, but I have become less blase about safety at hights......

[Tayne]

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[bigstraight6]

Heights scare the hell out of me, a couple of years ago I tried to overcome this fear by going up a ladder to rub down and paint the first floor windows at the house we lived in at the time, big mistake as I just froze with fear once at this level on a ladder, as in not being able to move and having a panic attack I don't mind flying though, and enjoy looking through the window throughout a flight ......

[warren t claim]

The two guys on 28DL who climbed Blackpool Tower have my utmost respect though.

[Split_Pin]

I was never scared of heights when I was young, but when I reached about 12 or 13 that all changed for some reason.I dont freeze when up high, I just become a mardy cunt, to try and disguise things.My friend 'made' me go up to the top of Gaudi's Cathedral in Barcelona. He conceded once we had descended again that I was indeed riddled with vertigo.

[Station]

I remember a few years ago, someone said they were climbing up a ladder on the side of an old building, a few hundred feet up, and the ladder came away from the wall!

[Pillock]

A lot of chimneys are like that - steeplejacks tend to just remove the lower ladder to discourage access. Trouble is, all the ladders interlock so without the bottom one, the rest put way too much force on the pins holding them to the chimney - quite risky to climb!I did the 'jumping on the CN tower glass floor' thing - nearly got lynched for it by all the folk stood around terrified. To me it's the same as rollercoasters - if it's designed to do it (high bridges, glass floors, tall buildings) then it will be overengineered to a degree you can't even imagine.The stuff that nature made (rockfaces, big trees etc) - that's the scary stuff.

[AXrescuer]

My pictures were taken at Carrick-a-Rede in norn ireland, at Slain's Castle in Aberdeenshire and at an abandoned mill in Aberdeen.The last pic is the CN tower but wasn't taken by me. Various people commented on that about people jumping up and down on the glass floor to scare their friends. Then someone witness m&ms being dropped behind a chap jumping on the glass floor, he shat himself as it sounded just like braking glass.

My wife stood on that glass floor last year whilst on a visit to her brother. She said that she felt sick for hours afterwards!http://www.cntower.ca/plan_your_visit/a ... ass_floor/

[HillmanImp]

Heres a scary vid of the Kings Walkway.

 

http://vimeo.com/1405288

[retrogeezer]

Here are my feet on the 'walk of death' at Blackpool Tower.

 

My other half won't walk across it but my 6 year old daughter was dancing on it without a care in the world!