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I quite like being up high, in aircraft or safe buildings, but get me near an 'unsafe' height, in which there is a real possibility of falling and the nerves in my hands go haywire -
I quite like being up high, in aircraft or safe buildings, but get me near an 'unsafe' height, in which there is a real possibility of falling and the nerves in my hands go haywire - it is a most unpleasant sensation and I can only imagine people who deal with such heights have no nervous system!
Now we are on the subject, below is a vid about a very small part of the UK special forces who are called Mountain Leaders. In the video, there are new volunteers on their first day, comprising guys from things like the Australian SAS (watch what is said about him), the SBS, the Royal Marines and a couple of Dutch guys.
Anyway, on day one, these guys who have already proved they have stones and fitness are asked to jump from a 200' sea cliff over to this rock that is 12' down and 15' across. The instructor does it without a harness. Bit later in video a guy is nearly washed away with his arm out of the socket. Little problems like this don't even slow the training down. REAL MEN.
Anyone interested in what men go through to join military elites will love this vid. Also, it's the early 80's, not long after the Falklands conflict and there is a very acceptable incidence of good military tache's!
If you don't wanna watch it all FF to 11:39
I don't have a problem with heights at all, but there's no way in hell you'd ever catch me free climbing one of those towers. There's so little room to maneuver, just watching the video made me feel claustrophobic. Not a good thing when one is 1600 feet above ground with no safety harness. I've bungee jumped, cliff dove, rock climbed and I'm getting ready to go sky diving sometime this year or maybe next, but fuck climbing that tower.