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Post subject: Are you afraid of Heights?
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:09 pm
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Found this on another site earlier and thought that I would share it with you all.

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's pathway) is a walkway or via ferrata, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The name is often shortened to El Camino del Rey.

In 1901 it was obvious that the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide transport of materials, vigilance and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway took four years; it was finished in 1905.

In 1921 the king Alfonso XIII crossed the walkway for the inauguration of the dam Conde del Guadalhorce and it became known by its present name.
The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 ft) in width, and is over 700 feet (200 m) above the river. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the concrete walkway have completely collapsed and all that is remaining is the steel beam originally in place to hold it up and the wire that follows most the path. One can latch onto the wire to keep from falling. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years. After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances; however, adventurous tourists still find their way into the walkway.


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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:13 pm
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Terrified of heights. I really have to push myself mentally to climb anything, and I often get the spiralling tunnel vision and my heart raising up to my throat, which is sort of ironic because I've been climbing many times (trees/rockclimbing/mountains/bouldering) and always love it.

I think my vertigo is less a fear of the height and more the fear of letting myself fall, if you get me.


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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:19 pm
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yes i'm scared of hights. i can barely go into my attic

in fact here is the list of my fears in order

1. Spiders
2. Heights
3. Closed Spaces
4. Nuclear War(no im not kidding)
5. Gangsters(no, again, im not kidding)

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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:24 pm
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I'm a bit clostrophobic too. Its more social anxiety clostrophobia tho, if you get me, like I can't take being in the subway when its packed, or in a nightclub with a low roof.


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yes i am scared of heights very scared
and also im very afraid of spiders!!

man i hate those things

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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:27 pm
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Anything over 3-4 stories I am. Especially in the open. I never used to be but when I was a roofer a guy on another crew snagged my safety harness line and caused me to lose my balance and I fell off of a parapet wall edge about 40 stories up and over the edge I went. Obviously the harness did it's job and I am still here but dangling that far above the street till help came definately changed my whole outlook on heights. LOL!

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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:30 pm
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Walking on those pipes is crazy! Those guys are maniacs!!....I'd still do it though.


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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:30 pm
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whoever made that video was a moron... :roll:

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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:31 pm
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Well since this is turning into a thread of fears, I am deathly afraid of cockroaches, you know the little flying ones. I will run like a screaming sally if I see one.


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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:37 pm
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I'm afraid of crying women. lol....not really

....I love heights though.


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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:42 pm
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You would have to be possessed of a very unusual brain chemistry not to be afraid of heights like those in the video.

i mean, c'mon... you're doing something that could really easily get you killed! If you're not afraid of that, then your DNA isn't going to get passed on, and rightly so. :D


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I'm afraid of really hight action... like a 1/4 inch plus. I could just fall out of my chair.


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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:44 pm
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Up on top of Stratosphere, in Vegas, I was on the ride that hangs over the edge. It spins around a lot and so I had to take off my glasses before getting on it, but I could still see the vistas (a little blurry). So it broke down and I was stuck on the ride hanging off the edge. I simply sat and enjoyed the view until they got it going again. I wasn't at all uptight.

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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:52 pm
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poorboy56 wrote:
whoever made that video was a moron... :roll:

Why? That is what they like to do. They get a rush from it. Just like skydivers, bungee jumpers, freestyle motocross, skateboarders, etc.


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Yeah seen that before, bloody scary! And I'm not always that bothered by heights.


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