Places I will never go to. (Dialup warning + fear of heights warning)

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[SeattleGirl]

1. Eeeek! Beautiful scenery, but it definitely brings out my fear of heights!

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[BarenakedLady]

2. I don't have an overwhelming fear of heights but

those pictures certainly do test my limits.

:scared:

[billyoc]

3. Looks like that would be a nice change of pace.

I usually have to worry about landing on dog poop if I fall. :scared:

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13. We have a color version of that picture of the workers on the skyscraper

It's in a large coffee-table book we have had for exactly 50 years. It's "The Face of America" by the editors of the Saturday Evening Post. It's filled with great color photos from all over America in the 1950s in all seasons, and in urban, suburuban, rural and wild settings. The page which has the above photo in color says,

"Construction workers eat when the whistle blows. If they happen to be on a girder thirty stories above Lexington Avenue in New York City, they have lunch with a view. On the left is Louis Deer, a Mohawk Indian from Canada who works in New York, where he can draw $3.95 an hour for his nerve and skill. With him is Monte Farrell, the "walking boss." Monte does the leg work for the foreman, who presides below. High-steel work is in Monte's blood: his father helped put up the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the George Washington Bridge. But Monte admits that building towers in the sky "is enough to put gray hairs on anyone's head," and he hopes his son will become an engineer. This stark skyscraper skeleton is that of a $20,000,000 building called simply 485 Lexington Avenue. By early fall, it was fleshed with concrete, glass and modern décor; an advertising agency's craftsmen now ply their hectic trade where Louis and Monte worked placidly. Perhaps by now the unsung hero of this picture, the photographer, is his old self again. He had to do his shutter-snapping and film-changing while perched on one of those girders. "I was really shook," he said when he came back to earth. Photograph by Larry Fried"

[billyoc]

23. I love all those old pictures.

We're getting a little more in the envelope these days. ;)

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4. Here are more, specifically about that place in China...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. I'm sorry, but those people are insane...

NO WAY would I ever do that! Heights are fine...it's the falling I'm terrified of. I just got that pain/clench in my butt that tells me to get the hell away from the edge. :rofl:
Duckie

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I'm with you. Heights don't scare me, but the thought of falling does.

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11. It's not the fall, exactly, that scares me, it's the sudden stop at the end.

[XemaSab]

29. enjoy!

http://despair.com/regret.html

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

25. Clenching here too.

At first I thought those were some serious photoshops but those pics are as close as I will ever get to that level of craziness.

[billyskank]

5. I guess this is a job you wouldn't do then

Workers cleaning the face of Big Ben, which is temporarily stopped for maintenance.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/11/AR2007081100381.html

[flvegan]

9. Or this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm6iCl_qI1w

[billyskank]

10. That is really cool though.

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16. That was awesome - thanks. But weren't high-voltage lines invented before helicopters?

How did they think they were going to maintain them if helicopters didn't exist yet?
And I wonder how much he gets paid for doing that?
He answered my third question, well sort of answered it, which was "Why the hell don't they TURN OFF THE FRICKIN' POWER to that line before working on it?!?!"

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12. At least they have harnesses on. That is a cool picture! Thanks

[flvegan]

8. Not just no, but HELL NO.

[ms liberty]

14. And I will join you in never going there!

Just looking at those pics has made the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet sweaty. Heights - it's the one thing I just can't do.

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17. Hey- maybe we can organize a group DU trip of NOT going there!

I'll bring snacks and you can bring drinks.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. I don't know which is scarier: the actual place or the taking of the picture

think about where the photographers had to be.....to get some of those shots!!!!!

acrophobiacs united to NOT GO THERE!!!

[tyedyeto]

15. 2nd pic --- I've been on Half Dome (Yosemite)...

and climbed those cables. And even spent the night up there. Now I didn't get too close to the edge while on top. Too :scared:

Awesome hike!

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18. What was it like coming down on those cables?

[tyedyeto]

19. I went down backwards

Still tricky when you have a backpack on.

Another trick going up or down is to make sure you have very calloused hands or a pair of gloves.

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20. My own technique is

I'm not going within a mile of that mountain, even for $10,000,000. Pictures are good enough for me.

[jobycom]

22. Okay, the tenth picture made me a little nervous. The rest are cool.

You have things to hand on to in all the others. That tenth one, though... I would have stopped a little before that. And where is he going, anyway? The ledge fades into the cliff.

Where is that walkway with the chains? I saw the later post that said China. What is it?

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24. It's Mt. Hua Shan in Shaanxi Province, central China

http://www.chinatravel.com/china-travel-guides/china-attractions/mountains/five-most-famous-moutains/mount-huashan-in-shaanxi-.shtml

[EstimatedProphet]

26. I would love to see every last one of those places!

[applegrove]

27. Me neither.

[XemaSab]

28. Good call on the warning...

...bad call on me not heeding the warning. :scared: