Scared of heights?

Imagine if you got all the way down to the bottom and realised you had forgotten your house keys or something and had to go back up. :D

Did it say how long it took to get up there ?
 
I thought I wouldn't be affected by the height but I kept having to look away, lol. This is coming from an ex window cleaner from years ago. None of the windows were that high up! :)
 
Holleeeee *********.

What the hell does he have to climb to the top of the tower for? There didn't seem to be anything there except that lighting beacon (whatever that does).

I would love to have seen the coming down video. Coming down would seem harder than going up to me.
 
My first thought was, 1600ft, you're going to have to be very fit to do that in one go!

That height is pretty epic, think I'd love to have a go at it, although I've never really been abouve around 100ft before.
 
That's pretty damn impressive.

I've come to the conclusion i'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid I don't trust myself.

For instance, I would do a bungee jump or a sky dive, Infact I want to.

But I wouldnt climb a ladder any higher than house height. Because i simply wouldn't trust my own safety in my own hands.... that must sound bad lol
 
If anyone is going to Nottingham Goose Fair in a couple of weeks time, there is a ride there called Bomber Mark 2. It's not a patch on the OP's video, but it's still 55 metres high, 83 mph at top speed and pulls 4.2g. It's a step up from Oblivion at Alton Towers, and proves a nice little test for the vertically challenged :-)
 
godinman said:
Erm, was he actually tethered when he was unclipping and clipping? I assumed he had 2 lines..but i never actually see a second one? Erm...
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No. Which is why the video got taken down.

Because the person recording the video was not tied on with a second line (video explained normally they do but if you want to climb quickly you don't bother), this makes the person doing it look reckless and may well make employers less willing to take him on.
 
I really like heights, and spent much of my childhood thoroughly unsafe distances up trees, swaying in the wind. Yet I still found parts of that unsettling, the ladder that was cantilevered bars sticking out from the column in particular. Thanks for (re)posting it.
 
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