Are you "afraid of heights"? This will cure you or kill you....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

[Pithlet]

1. My knees felt weak just looking at that.

And I'm not terribly afraid of heights, not more than average anyway. :scared:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. I hate heights.... this pic just creeps me out. I hate it. lol......

[skygazer]

3. Great picture!

I'm one of those oddballs who enjoys heights. I used to work on a construction crew building concrete bridges and retaining walls - we'd be up on scaffolding (that was actually just a 2x6 tied to the rebar with tie wire) 30 or 40 feet in the air and swaying in the breeze - it was wonderful. I loved that job.

This is my favorite pic of me -

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. If what you say is true... get help, really, NOW. Geeez. :)

[Tsiyu]

19. What a cool pic!

Where was it taken?

Today, OSHA would have you in a full-body climbing harness with 100% tie-off.

Your company would be fined $1,200,000.00 for that photograph alone...
:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

30. Is that the World Trade Center?

North or South Tower?

[MercutioATC]

31. Eiffel Tower, by the looks of it.

[KitchenWitch]

32. Yes the OPs picture is the Eiffel Tower

See the post directly above mine...that looks like the WTC to me, which is why I asked the question.

[MercutioATC]

34. Gotcha.

It's late. I was having a hard time believing YOU didn't recognize the Eiffel Tower...


...maybe I'll just go to sleep...


:)

[KitchenWitch]

35. HAHA

Some days, I have difficulty recognizing my own name...:rofl:

[colinmom71]

41. The observation decks were on #2 WTC...

On the 107th floor (indoors deck) and the 110th floor (outdoors). I think #2 was the South Tower... http://www.nyctourist.com/wtc_new1.htm

Some of the scariest moments of my life were taking that *huge* elevator up to the first observation area. I also saw the most beautiful full moon ever from that interior observation deck. It was blood red and just huge! We've got it on video tape around here somewhere. We need to get that video tape transferred to DVD at some point in time....

[KitchenWitch]

42. Wow - that is awesome! And welcome to DU

Going to the observation deck at the WTC was on my list of things I wanted to do before I died. I never made it. I also wanted to fly on the Concorde. It sucks to want! :D

[Tyrone Slothrop]

44. I went to the bar on the top floor of one of the WTC towers

Absolutely incredible views.

It was really weird to be looking down at the tops of other famous tall buildings. I was checking one out for a minute or two before I realized that I was looking down at the "roof" of the Woolworth's Building.

Kind of put some things into perspective.

[JimmyJazz]

4. Holly SHITE!!!!

Yes - I'm terribly afraid of heights.

This one freaks me out too:

[Tallison]

11. That pic always made me wonder about

accident statistics from early 20th-century construction.

[GOPisEvil]

6. I don't mind heights if I'm on a building or tower like that...

...but get me on a flimsy ladder, or try to get me to go from a ladder to a roof, and forget it! :scared:

[Quakerfriend]

7. OMG! Please stop it!!

I can't stand it. Makes my toes tingle!

I used to rock climb and sky dive. But, all of a sudden at the age of 32 I was struck with a fear of heights!!

[Tallison]

8. Context?

I gotta' know. Please tell me the guy was harnessed to something.

[GOPisEvil]

10. I'm guessing he leaned over a railing and stuck his foot out.

Looks like the Eiffel Tower.

[Tallison]

14. That may be the case

assuming the railing is higher than waist-level (in which case it constitutes a pretty flimsy security measure).

[Kathleen04]

21. Maybe it was the

Vegas Eiffel Tower??..the Eiffel Tower has alot of buildings around it. Someone below said it was photoshopped. I've been on top of the Eiffel Tower and there's fences on the lower levels and the top one is glassed in.

I don't have a fear of heights but I have a fear of "losing stuff"..strange fear..an example is that being on the Eiffel Tower didn't bother me at all, then one of our friends starts dangling my other friend's camera through the fence and it gave me the heebie jeebies.

[the_spectator]

40. No buildings around it -

it's in a park, isn't it? With the Invalides and Napoleon's tomb far off at one end, and the Palais de Chaillot at the other end, across the Seine?

[Kathleen04]

43. Hmm yeah

Now that I think about it, you are right when looking straight down--my pics on the lower levels show it but the ones from the higher ones don't because they aren't looking close by.

Here's one of my pics..and you can see a little bit of straight below and around it:

[seemunkee]

45. I took a nap in the park to the right in that picture

When we took our kids after checking into the hotel the first thing we did was head for the tower. We were wiped out with jet lag and fell asleep under the tower next to the pond with the little island in it.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

23. Sure is. I only made it to the second deck and then chickened out.

Now I'm glad!!

[bicentennial_baby]

27. I think it's photoshopped

you couldn't get through all the barriers on the 2nd and 3rd levels to do that, i think. the 3rd level is totally glassed in, and the 2nd has a fence of some size, if i remember correctly

[HysteryDiagnosis]

13. No idea.... I found this whilst looking for photos of.....

Baghdad Bob.... for another thread... maybe Baghdad Bob took reality to "new heights" when he was broadcasting during the invasion... at least that's what I think....

[ahem]

15. It's a Worth 1000 picture, which means it was part of a Photoshop contest

That's all they do.

[Burma Jones]

9. It makes me feel as though I'm being kicked in the nuts

that's what heights does to me,,,,,,,,

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. It's a bitch, ain't it. And to think, I climbed a radio tower in the

Boston hills of WNY with TWO other young fellows, we were just out of high school... and this tower had to be 600 feet or better... and when my friend got it swaying so that you could see it "pass beyond itself in several places when looking down" I nearly fainted. I threw my sweatshirt from the top and it took MINUTES to hit the ground... how crazy we can be when we are young and full of it.

[Ready4Change]

16. Aaeeeeiiiiiiiiii !

I'm afraid of photos!

Heights I'm ok with. :P

[Chichiri]

17. I'm dead.

Thanks a lot! :hangover:

[auntAgonist]

18. It damned near killed me!!

Sure didn't cure me though ..


:scared:

[Wapsie B]

20. My fear of heights kicks in

when I'm driving through really hilly areas like the Black Hills or the Ozarks. I look over the edge and just freak. Takes the enjoyment out of beautiful scenery. Pics like this one make me nuts.

[Habibi]

24. I always imagined I'd have that problem along the Pacific coast.

All those twisty-two laners with naught but a flimsy guardrail between you and the deep blue sea. I can walk up/down hills and look over steep embankments, but don't ask me to drive along big hills with a sheer drop on one side!

[Wapsie B]

26. Yes I had that problem there too.

Along the Pacific Coast Highway is awesome scenery. I wish there was a way to get over this feeling.

[uppityperson]

22. Base jumping

cool. Go skydiving a few times and it will change how you look at heights forever.

[Kool Kitty]

38. AACCCKK!!!!!

That makes my palms sweat. Yikes!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

25. Odd, though...if I'm in a plane looking at the same type of scenery

it doesn't bother me a bit.

[sakabatou]

28. I felt a bit uneasy...

[leftofthedial]

29. sacre bleu

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh


oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

[Robeson]

33. If outside, like that, hell yes. My palms get sweaty.

[nickgutierrez]

36. That sent chills down my spine.

I am most definitely not cured.

Not dead, but not cured either. :)

[Rhiannon12866]

37. Jesus!!!

Thanks!!! I'm going to have the usual nightmares tonight!!!
:scared:

[the_spectator]

39. You know that's funny -

I usually DON'T have a fear of heights - but when I was in Paris, I could only bring myself to ride up to the lower level of the Eiffel Tower (just above the right foot in that pic.)

That ride up to the top just looked too damn scary!

I know you can generally trust in 19th century metalwork and engineering, but it looked SO hairy!