Alisande, this may interest you ...

Jodi_SoCal

15 years ago

... or just scare the wits out of you. Please tell me your son does not do this.

How to climb to the top of an antennae tower AKA "Stairway to Heaven"

Warning, do not watch video if you have a fear of heights.

Jodi-

Here is a link that might be useful: Stairway to Heaven

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pattico_gw
15 years ago
OMGosh Jodi...I had to turn that off...I started getting sick at my stomach...

Yes...I'm afraid of heights..but I think it was the swaying...I have vertigo and that moving stuff gets to me. There are a LOT of video games I can't play because I get really sick and dizzy from them.
Jodi_SoCal
Original Author
15 years ago
Yea Patti, I was also going to recommend Dramamine for better viewing pleasure. :-)

Everyone in our office who's seen it started getting light-headed or queasy or just turned it off about half way through.

Jodi-
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alisande
15 years ago
Eeek! I could watch only a short bit. Yes, my DS does climb, but not that high! His tallest tower is 120 feet, or 12 stories--high enough to send me to the chiropractor with muscle spasms more than once when he was building it.

He has a harness, and I remind him that he should use it all the time. Since I avoid watching him climb, I don't know if he heeds my advice or not.

He obviously wasn't using it here, at 70 feet up:

Or here, where he appears to be in someone's air space. (His fiancee--now wife!--took this one while he was dismantling a tower that he'd bought.) Yikes--I don't even like looking at these pictures!
Nita__AZ
15 years ago
I watched the whole thing. That is one job I surely wouldn't want. I wonder how many times a year they have to climb that tower.
Jodi_SoCal
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15 years ago
I told my boss that I would no longer complain about my "commute" to work. :-) He said he's always told people he'd like an outdoor office but now he'll be a little more specific. LOL

I don't know how you can even watch your DS on that thing Susan. I get nervous when DH climbs an 8 foot ladder.
wildchild
15 years ago
I'm terrified of heights. I can't even stand at a vista point to take pictures. But I found the video fascinating and not in the least disturbing. Weird. I am so envious of people who can be as sure footed high up as they are on the ground. I have this irrational fear that some unknown force will make me fall.
barb_from_pa
15 years ago
Wow!

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