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Dave Dempsey

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16. 9. 2010 - 12:55

Today's Webtip: High Times

One view, hold the room please. Engineers at work 1000 feet up.

I'm afraid of heights. You know those crane based bungy jumps? I get panic attacks just watching from the ground. Sitting in the passenger side of a car on an outside mountain curve leaves me sweating, and driving over bridges is almost too much adventure for me.

And then there is the imp of the perverse. If I do manage to find myself on an observation deck, there is always a little voice in the back of my head saying "I wonder what it would be like to fall..."

So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that watching a video of two guys climbing the last 60 feet of a 1000 foot tall tower left me a mess.

every muscle was tensed, my heart was racing, and I couldn't get myself to stop the video.

It was fun.

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