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04 July 2014, 09:25 PM
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Best I've done is 1600m (from sea level) in South NZ!
This gave me the heebee geebees though:
That was the top of the knife-edge ridge on the background of this photo:
This gave me the heebee geebees though:
That was the top of the knife-edge ridge on the background of this photo:
05 July 2014, 11:28 PM
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I thought if I kept going higher that the problem would ease off but it doesn't. It's not a fear of heights because I am fine looking out of really tall buildings or on those glass floors in towers, as long as my feet are on something solid, but I get dizzy if I stand on a kitchen chair. It is a physical feeling of vertigo.
I love/ hate the buzz and yes, the views are incredible,
Ranulph Fiennes thought if he climbed the north face of the Eiger it would cure his vertigo, he did and it didn't, so no hope for me but I'll keep plodding on.
(sorry for hijacking thread Graz)
I love/ hate the buzz and yes, the views are incredible,
Ranulph Fiennes thought if he climbed the north face of the Eiger it would cure his vertigo, he did and it didn't, so no hope for me but I'll keep plodding on.
(sorry for hijacking thread Graz)
or vise versa 
I don't think it's possible to cure yourself of it, I was a lift engineer installing from the ground up and I was always the one 5 floors up no safety gear drilling the hole for the next guide bracket 
I came to the conclusion that a fear of heights is healthy as it makes you pay attention.
Last edited by ditchmyster; 05 July 2014 at 11:30 PM.
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