Speaking for my fellow acrophobes: No. Friggin. WAY!
Posted on 07/28/2011 5:00:06 PM PDT by DemforBush
The EdgeWalk at Toronto's CN Tower is an adrenaline filled excursion around an open-mesh metal walkway almost a quarter of a mile above the ground. There's no guard rail and no hand holds, just an uninterrupted view of the Toronto skyline and a through-the-mesh view of the ground, 1,168 feet beneath your feet...
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Speaking for my fellow acrophobes: No. Friggin. WAY!
I’m there. Way cool.
I have commercial, multi-engine, glider and instrument ratings and have flown something over 800 hours, but I could not do that. I have to have something between me and the ground, even if it’s only fabric.
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Yeah, no. No way.
Um. No. I get vertigo looking UP at the CN tower from the ground.
Build an outrigger boom and have bungee jumping.
I have been in the CN tower. There are glass panels in the floor so you can see all the way down. The tower sways in the wind.
You're not the only one. I've done some climbing and flying
and I am a little nervous at first with either. However I
have a two friends, one an ex Navy carrier pilot and one who
has flown aerobatics and neither of them could paint the
second story of their house!
I can not tell you what I would do NOT to be up there.
I have too. It is fun to watch how people respond differently. Some won't go anywhere near the glass panels. Some will walk right up and stand on the clear sections. And some, strangely, will walk on the opaque floor sections between the glass panels, but will not actually step on the panels.
Don’t watch this if heights bother you.
The CN Tower Edge Walk [Opens to Public Monday August 1st]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuSvn1K-ms
Preview: EdgeWalk at the CN Tower
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJy-t_yc9l8
Steve Murray gets preview of EdgeWalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iikXiH9QszU
I stood at the base of the tower and looked up. It looked like the tower was falling toward me. The way the support legs slope inward as they go up, it creates an optical illusion when you look up from the base.
Or maybe it’s just me.
Awesome ... count me in! (unless it costs too much)
Sorry, I was a lineman for ten years. You have to be half a freakin’ nut to do this.
I enjoy Skydiving, but you couldn’t get me in a tall building, must less hanging off of one. Well, maybe you could if I was wearing a parachute, but that would be the only way.
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