Fraid of heights?

I love flying, but I had an incredibly terrifying time getting the nerve up to lean back to rappel off of a 60 foot tower with two ropes.

I really came close to saying, "No, I can't do this," but I followed through because of the 12 Boy Scouts, one of whom was my son, expecting me to do it after they had. I think that I would have backed out had I been there by myself.

I don't care to go rappelling again anytime soon. I'm looking forward to going flying tomorrow, however.
 
IdaFlyer said:
I'm not afraid of heights, I'm just afraid of edges...
Exposure without projection is what freaks me out.
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Then it's best that you do NOT know how I took these pictures:

(A ho-hum 100ft to, um, IIRC 1900ft+ straight down...all taken mere inches away from Empty Air)
 

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Black Canyon, Frank?

Rapelling I can handle, climbing power line poles I (used to be able to) handle ...

climbing a ladder to put up the Christmas lights? Can't do it any more! :dunno: :cryin:
 
fgcason said:
The last 3 are. No guard rails. No safety line for protection. Couldn't take a quarter step further.
Lots of Empty Air.
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It's all the fissures and cracks (is that redundant?) in the rocks at the edge that would make me nervous about stepping out right to the edge... my mind would have one of them cleaving off!
 
TangoWhiskey said:
It's all the fissures and cracks (is that redundant?) in the rocks at the edge that would make me nervous about stepping out right to the edge... my mind would have one of them cleaving off!
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You just have to have an instinctive and rational understanding of what kind of stuff is likely to move and what you can trust. I'll take fissures over a guard rail anyday.

Curiously I feel far more comfortable on the edge of rock than on a building. My instincts and sensory input tells me that a building is hollow, flimsy and unreliable while the rock is solid and well anchored. My mind has a building falling down under me. That said, I distinctly remember being on top of a 40ft tower on the corner of a 20 story building many moons ago putting up an antenna. There was a LOT of gravity down below me. :D The tower felt safe but my subconcious was screaming that the building under it was seriously dangerous.
 
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