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What I put it down to is the instinctive hormone reaction you get triggers that memory. My personal experience with people who have extensive mental health issues is they experience strong physical reactions to what most would think small events and they don't understand why they suddenly feel the way they do. It's crazy how these phobias develop so easily. From having no issue in the past I now find it hard, not impossible to just walk out onto a balcony over 10 stories up. I used to be able to do some crazy stuff well over 50 stories, but not now.
 
I get palpitations and tingles in my feet just watching this on a 12" PC screen sat on my sofa....!.....but still go back to watch them again and again....

It must be something primitive deep in the brain stem telling you " this is dangerous...don`t go anywhere near , stay away..."...... and yet some can just switch off or overide those warning signals it would seem , until they get older and start to actually think about what they`re doing....maybe .
 
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When I was a kid we visited Echo Point in the blue mountains just west of Sydney that overlooks the 3 sisters, a viewing platform right on an approx 1000ft drop over the gross valley and I couldn't understand why my parents couldn't get closer to the guard rail fence on the edge, I now can understand it.
 
I watched a rigger being helped down a scaffold once, it took ages with lots of guys holding him and helping. We thought he must have injured himself. But he had just “lost it”, suddenly realising that he was in danger and couldn’t let go. His boss was a good guy and gave him an office job.
 
That crane box incident had me gripping the box with a death grip for the last 5 minutes of the lift, I was very scared and that fear still has a grip on me when I am up high, that was 40 years ago.
 
The mental aspect of the climb Doco, him sitting in his campervan wrestling with what might happen the next. It's pretty mind-blowing what he did and the way it unfolded, the actual climb itself. Maximum sweaty palms for me watching it
 
My two cases of 'fear of heights' were in Chamonix getting the cable car to Le Brevent; forty skiers tightly packed in the cabin with a three thousand foot drop underneath.
The second one was on a chairlift in Val D'Isere, going up facing into the slope was ok but this particular lift went up, over a ridge and down the other side to a separate ski area. Facing away from the slope with nothing in front of you and just sitting on a frozen chair with a little chain across your lap was not confidence inspiring.
 
I guess different people have different perceptions of what is " dangerous ".......there are probably those who would climb to the top of a tall ladder or onto a high rooftop quite happily , and yet regard riding a motorcycle in modern traffic as dangerous.....
With me it tends to be the other way round ....
 

Kenny Roberts once said about the TZ 750 Flat Tracker " they don`t pay me enough to ride that thing " ......
I reckon they probably didn`t pay these guys enough to build that thing .....

I can look at these with ( almost ) no problem...it must be because there`s no movement involved....
 
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The only chairlift I had an issue with and that includes the old Merrits Double Chair at Thredbo was one at a place called Kirkwood in the USA, bloody hell that was a long way down. The year we were there they made you drive in with an Escort because of Avalanch risks. They were firing the Avalanch Cannon all day long at Snowbird. The road drifts were 26ft high all over the USA.
 
Is that the one about women at the turn of the century, Sigman Froed's time frame and the epidemic of mass hysteria, great premise.
 
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, and yet regard riding a motorcycle in modern traffic as dangerous.....
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It is bloody dangerous.
I gave up riding to work after a near miss only to take it up again the last few years before retirement.
I reckoned I'd proven what I wanted to and being killed or maimed going to work wasn't worth it.

Will never forget though braking for a traffic light turned red and staying upright on ice and the car behind me going into a spin, 4 wheels locked. Needed doing once.

Paul
 
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