I’m not “terrified of heights.” Looking at those pictures doesn’t give me vertigo. I have climbed the outside ladders on silos before.
What I do have is a healthy fear of heights. You won’t catch me doing parkour on top of a skyscraper. That shit is stupid. I also wouldn’t walk upright to the edge of a fatal drop to look over the edge.
IMO there should be a third category for people who deal with high places but don’t have a suicidal lack of fear.
Ha I thought it was just me. I went up an elevator on this tower near my house and when I got up there the floors and walls were all glass. Probably 300 feet up. Got right back on the elevator and went down
From a skydiving perspective, probably not. For me at least you’re so high up that you lose the perspective that tells you that you’re up high. Falling from altitude is kind of the same, other than the wind whipping by you don’t really have a sense of falling toward the ground. It’s actually pretty peaceful.
The 9.8 m/s^2 of downward acceleration while falling doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the hundreds (thousands?) of G’s of upward acceleration at the end of the journey (: