Highly disturbing, white knuckle photos ahead! Seriously, I have an extreme fear of heights. Do you sweat at the thought of a sheer cliff? Do you get queasy just watching a video of mountain climbing? Then you may have extreme fear of heights like I do. The men in the photo above, who decided to eat lunch on a steel bean suspended hundreds of feet above the ground, obviously do not suffer from acrophobia, but they are nuts, plain and simple! One wrong move and they are splats on the ground, What they did, would never even be allowed today. Are you really tying to copy the guys from the 30s? OK, this guy was fearless, definitely. Working on steel beams without any kind of safety harness. This guy needs to have his head examined! Are you kidding me? One slip and well…. Even if you are only slightly afraid of heights, these may shock you! Watch in full screen if you can. Video — Nerves of steel. Terrifying maybe, but not really all that dangerous. Still, if you hate heights, they can be challenging. The videos are best watched in full screen. A porta-ledge is a deployable hanging tent system designed for rock climbers who spend multiple days and nights on a big wall climb. An assembled portaledge is a fabric-covered platform surrounded by a metal frame that hangs from a single point and has adjustable suspension straps. A separate cover, called a stormfly, covers the entire system in the event of bad weather. Only a true nut case would actually deploy and sleep in a port-ledge! Why in hell would you rock climb in the first place? But given that, why would you carry and actually use a porta-ledge? How hard is it to deploy the damn thing and how hard is is to hang on the side of a mountain and fold this thing up? Stay home and watch TV! Why would you risk your life doing something this dumb? Are you kidding me? Climbing up the side of a mountain without ropes, crampons, assistants…nothing but your hands and feet? Have you guys ever heard of gravity? Yeah, like the helmet is really going to help! Well, fly me to New York I guess! Solo climbing has to be one of the riskiest, most dangerous, and just plain reckless things one could ever do! The fact is, a lot of people die while solo climbing. Why would anyone do this? Climbing an ice wall? Climbing icicle seems like a really bad idea! The Chrysler building gargoyles! This is an Art Deco style skyscraper in New York City. It used to be the tallest building in New York, before the Empire State and the World Trade Center. The building also has some characteristic gargoyles hanging off of the sides. Would you exit the building 60 stories up and actually climb out onto the gargoyles? I mean, one gust of wind…. I guess someone has to change the light bulbs! You walk carefully on several inches of glass while gazing down at the canyon floor yikes! I could do this with some hesitation I guess gulp. Video — Walking the Grand Canyon Skywalk — This is mild compared to many videos on this site. This is what I felt when I visited the World Trade Center restaurant in 1992. Being close to the glass was very disconcerting. This photo creeps me out! This is supposedly the Sears Tower in Chicago. Only people with a real head for heights will dare to swim in the pool at The Holiday Inn Hotel in Shanghai. Part of the swimming pool, located on the 24th floor, extends over the side of the building and has a transparent bottom. Bungy jumping is something I would never do by choice that is. The girl is scared to death to jump! Watch in full scree! There are those guys who get paid to edge out over the side of a 50 story building to clean the windows. Sometimes old ladies have more guts than I do! Video — Working on top of the Burj Kahlifa building watch in full screen Not sure if this guy is a window washer, but this is definitely a sweaty palms video! This is so high up! They surrounded it a long time ago with really high fencing so that no more nut balls can dive off! A while ago, a photographer climbed out to the very top where the technicians go to change the light bulb at the top of the spire! He used climbing gear to ascend the spire and take a precarious photo. I love this shot! Video — 360 tour from 102 floor observation room There is a 2nd observation room on the 102nd floor of the building the observation outside deck in on the 86th floor. The room on the 102nd floor is fully inside. There is a door I believe that was used to off load dirigible passengers. Some of theses videos are the scariest on the site! These are the dark, hidden, pits of hell inside skyscrapers. Or worse, stepping into an elevator, only to discover there is no elevator — Just a long, dark fall into a foreboding , 200 foot pit of death. You are up on a cliff and to get to the next cliff, its only a short jump with a 5,000 foot downside. Sounds easy, especially if your friends are egging you on, but jumping any crevice is dumb! What if your foot suddenly gets caught right before you leap? Jumping crevices with dire consequences if you just happen to slip before you leap! Crevice jump — made it! You just better hope you make it. No second chances here A long time ago, someone thought it would be a good stunt to jump across a massive crevice with a horse! OK not crevice jumping, but pretty dumb none the less! Wind turbine maintenance people have guts. Climbing outside or inside in a very confined space, sometimes 300 feet high. But then you might need to climb out on top of the cell, or rope down to one of the blades! The scary part would be exiting the cell at the top, and crawling out on that smooth surface while looking over the edge! I have to say I prefer the larger ones where you can climb to the top form the inside. The biggest ones even have a lift, or small elevator to get you most of the way up. It is also referred to as flying phobia, flight phobia, or aviophobia. Although airline flying is generally extremely safe, I look at fear of flying as a combination of claustrophobiacombined with a fear of heights two fears in one. You feel trapped in a small box, plus the fear of any possibility of escape, since you are flying at 600 MPH at 30,000 feet! They say that statistically, you are far more likely to have a car accident than a plane crash. I hate the thought of being perilously close to a ledge. Some of these are far worse! Hanging out with your friend? Video — Edge walk — CN Tower, Toronto — Watch full screen! The Haushan cliff plank walk! Your only safety device is a waistband with two attached lines and clips that you attach to a metal wire that runs above the planks. This kind of thing would never be allowed in the USA! In China, there would probably be very little you or your survivors could do about it if you landed on a bad plank and were between clipping to the safety wire. Who knows how sturdy that really is? For the walk, you hang onto the chain and trust the planks under you? This is real world fear of heights. Hope you enjoyed the site! I get chills just looking through the photos. Life has enough challenges in my opinion, without making it about life or death! Oh well, each to his own. My feet are planted firmly on Mother Earth. I avoid as much as I can flying, elevators, traveling over really deep water, standing next to floor-to-ceiling windows when they are higher than 1 story , going anywhere near the edge of a cliff, mountainous roads, and going into any building over 2 stories LOL. Disclaimer — This site is not for commercial purposes, just for fun.
