Heights.....

[fossyant]

Took the kids to the Imperial War Museum in Manchester today. Spent a couple of hours there, and on the way out my son sees the lift is working to go up 'The shard' to the viewing gallery.

Let's just say standing on the ground and looking up the structure (its hollow inside with various metalwork) gave me that 'feeling' in the stomach.

Anyway, we went up.....

The lift is wobbly and rattly and is sort of bolted onto the inner edge of the structure..... the viewing gallery is no more than a mesh type floor.... - and it wobbles......

Views were good, but I wouldn't go up if you don't like heights.....

 

[tyred]

As someone who panics walking on thick carpet, I doubt if it is for me

 

[ChrisKH]

I recall climbing up a television viewing platform that overlooked a ski jump in Oslo (? can't remember exactly, it was one of the Scandanavian cities) and the entire apparatus was a wire mesh type construction. That's the worse I've felt.

 

[PaulB]

Powerful fears are powerful fears no matter how rationally they are analysed. I have absolutely no fear of heights whatsoever but I have a sheer terror of jumping into water. I simply cannot do it. If I can see it comes up to the knees of little kids at a pool for instance, so I know it's not deep, there's no way I can jump in as I am certain it will be like the Marianas trench and I will drown. It even prevented me from doing, I shitteth thee not, the Steeplechase for my running club! I recall one especially embarrassing experience at Greaves Park in Sheffield during a Northern Counties Cross Country race when the course came to a river crossing at the bottom of a short but steep hill. I actually grabbed the arm of the unknown runner next to me in sheer terror of the fear of this water which must have been 5 inches deep at its deepest!!!

 

[Willow]

the one good thing that has come out of my car breaking down this week is tomorrow I had a meeting with safety equipment experts on the roof of the school I work at. Sadly I've had to cancel it, perhaps my new caretaker will be in situ when it's re-booked!

 

[snapper_37]

As someone who panics walking on thick carpet, I doubt if it is for me

+ 1

I sweat going over a bridge.

Heights, errrr, no thanks.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Table Mountain...I was up there with my Toddler son...in the cable car with open windows...and then stepping across the 2 foot gap from the car to the station with a sheer drop down to the beach it seemed below ...then there were the brass plaques dedicated to all the tourists who had fallen off the mountain to their deaths...scary stuff...

...but it was the happiest day of my life for other reasons.

 

[arranandy]

Having done a lot of hill walking, scrambling and some rock climbing in the past heights don't really bother me. However there is always an exception and mine was going down a stairway with open grating on the Beryl Alpha oil platform in the North Sea, this particular stairway was approx 50m above the sea and it was a very stormy day I think this is the nearest I've ever come to suffering vertigo

 

[snapper_37]

I would love to post a vid of me on a holiday in Cyprus, doing the George's Bus, but too ashamed.

I thought it would be a right laugh until we started going off road and on some really dodgy dirt trails up a mountain to Apollo Falls in this


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dtzeB8ZLg


The drops were sickening and I made the mistake of making it obvious that I was scared of heights. Oh, I was made to pay for that. Skidding the bus, reversing over cliffs until the limit was reached.

At one point, I was virtually being sick in the OH's sun hat - on video, with about 20 people watching me, on the bus. All to the sound of 'We Will Rock You' by Queen.

 

[a_n_t]

the view from the hilton on deansgate manchester. Now that was one hell of a rickety lift up there! God job i had my hard hat on eh?