Don't really mind heights but...

[Wile E. Coyote]

... rather him than me:

 

http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365

 

[Quinten]

Oh my actually god...  Sitting on the sofa watching that makes my stomach feel all queasy

[Norman Verona]

I think I've seen that before. Agreed, rather them than me.

[Captain Colonial]

Yep, seen it once before, my ring doing the 5p-50p pucker the whole time, especially the free climbing bit - no thanks.  And that's from someone who, in a previous career, actually went up the old Sutton Coldfield transmission tower in a lift (a few months before it broke and fell to the bottom, seriously injuring the two occupants) and later did do a 750-foot climb on one transmission tower (no free climbing, though) and threw up once I got back to the ground - the amount it sways near the top is frightening.  Climbing 1,758 feet is unreal, unthinkable.

[s2rrr]

Same here, wouldn't think about risking my life on a few 12mm bolts on a "jury rigged" pole  60ft from the top 1700ft up  . What I found extraordinary is that UK industry in most areas insists on two safety clips so that one is always attached properly, quite difficult to do at that height I guess but ?. The large clip they have over those bent ended rungs doesn't seem quite kosher but who is going to check. All a bit risky to me would like to say it wouldn't happen here but suspect it may do. You only make one mistake up there.

 

Bob

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

The irony is, above thirty, forty feet, the out come is pretty much the same; it's just how widely spread your remains are that varies.

 

Oh and I hate heights.

[s2rrr]

Agreed Dave, the "working at height" regs now covers any height or even holes. People have been seriously hurt by relatively small changes of height. The old 2m rule is no longer in force because of these injuries. But from a 1/3 of a mile up you would be dead before you hit the deck. No for me I'll stick nearer to the ground thanks. Funny thought spent 20 years nearly, working 80ft above the sea and walking on gratings oh and doing the helicopter stuff, not for everyone either. Some folk do have bizarre senses of safety and pretty cavalier ways of doing things. Still feel queezy ish. 

 

Bob

[alexander72]

If it don't grow - don't climb it !!!

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Don't mind aircraft. Gratings are usually OK, though some of the really "open-grid" style that you can see really clearly through do a mit of a mind **** on me! (If I look at the grating for any reason on those open style, I suddenly loose all ability to focus on the metal and can only see through it to the ground! As a result, if I look down from that point on, I seem to loose the ability to judge how far away the grill is when I'm walking and can't put my feet down properly without concentrating. It feels stupid, I'm told it's hilarious to watch - I look drunk as a lord!)

 

Get the same effect walking across joists too, if there's any serious air beneath them.

[jeff oakley]

My Fil was a steel erecter and climb specialist. He has no fear at that sort of job, as Dave said above 50 feet you are dead so there is no differance to climbers like that. Climbing these days is very safe, watch any Fred Dibnah programe and watch how he climbed and set up platforms to see how real danger is.

[User0083]

The link didn't work for me...

Shane! I love climbing and have done plenty of free climbing. As said on here, 30ft was the edge of the zone where it changes. I am fine with heights and fear excited me!

Really wanted to see the clip...

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Clip doesn't work on iPad, was fine on the Mac earlier though!

[User0083]

Clip doesn't work on iPad, was fine on the Mac earlier though!

Cheers, iPhone is the only place I view the forum... Sometimes iPad. But I'm not keen enough to go to the mac.

[ralphy]

Back in the day I used to climb towers ass part of my work and had no problems doing so.  Even had to go up one time to a colleague who was frozen with fear at 200ft and calm him down - and a terrified man at height is not to be approached without a lot of care!

 

Fast forward quite a few years and I’m standing near the edge of a cliff in France and without any warning I get full-on vertigo: I became terrified and rooted to the spot, even now the hairs are rising on the back of my head just recounting it.  

 

The brain is a truly complex thing.

 

R

[SlowPoke]

:o ....spare a thought for the guys who installed the nuts and bolts... :o