would you walk on this ?

[SPUGGIE J]

Only if you could base jump of it.

[lettie]

I'm a total sissy when it comes to heights, but I would like to think that if I'd gone all the way to the Grand Canyon I would do the walk. I would also like to do the Sydney Harbour Bridge climb, but I'm waiting to do it with Margaret..

[maxwell silver]

Really could'nt say Me & hieghts don't agree.But i think if i managed to fly all the way there,it would be a waste not to give a possible once in a lifetime experience a try.

[WillowTheWhisp]

When we were in Ireland a couple of years ago the Carrick-a-Rede bridge was being refurbished I am pleased to say because I didn't fancy that at all. I didn't like the walk to Tintagel castle either.

[jambutty]

Years ago as a kid, during my naval career and for many years afterwards I could climb the heights without a single bad thought in my head. 600 feet up a land based radio mast at HMS Inskip near Preston is my highest achievement. I’ve stood on the very edge of Table Mountain and looked down without any effects.

Today I get an awful feeling looking down from a high rise flat window but I can look out into the distance OK. The best that I can manage now is looking down from a bedroom window of a normal house.

I recently watched Paul Merton’s programme about silent films and when Harold Lloyd’s clock hanging was shown and a guy climbing up a skyscraper I got that awful feeling in my guts. The same happens when I watch a film that has people climbing mountains or hanging off skyscrapers etc.

But I would probably manage that skywalk just as long as I didn’t look down. But then that would defeat the object of the exercise, wouldn’t it?

If it gives the native Americans a better standard of living then I am all for it.

Just one other point - once you get above about 100 feet and fall onto somewthing hard, you are the same strawberry jam as if you had fallen from 4,000 feet. Hopefully from such a height you would be unconsious long before you splattered on the deck. It’s not the distance that you fall but the sudden stop at the end that does the damage.

The definition of an optimist - An optimist is some who, whilst falling thousands of feet, reassures himself with, “so far so good.”

[entwisi]

you mean like the bloke whose parachute failed? was it last night they showed the footage :eek;

Heights don't bother me at all, I've bungee'd twice, parachuted and climbed a 40ft pole and got up on a 9" circular piece of wood at the top.(OK, I did have a harness on but I reckon I could still do it without). At 16 I walked down the narrow ledge of a narrow boat going over the Pontcysyllte Aquaduct on the side without a railing

[accymel]

Errrrrr pass.....................Blackpool tower is high & bad enough

I have a fear of heights altho i think its the fear of falling & breaking my neck that worries me more lol

[jambutty]

There have been many stories of people falling from enormous heights and surviving to tell the tale but they have all their fall broken by something like trees before hitting the ground.

The first that I can remember is when a rear gunner in a Lancaster, I think it was, during a bombing run had his turret shot from under him and he fell to earth from several thousand feet. He landed in a wood in enemy territory with just a few broken bones. Naturally the Germans captured him but refused to believe his story and initially treated him as a spy. However his plane had been shot down and the wreckage did not have a rear turret and his parachute was found onboard. The Germans were so impressed with his survival that they issued him with a certificate to authenticate his miraculous escape.

[chav1]

a few years ago a soldier had parachute failure and landed on bog ground/mossy type stuff and walked away from his landing with a few busted ribs and other minor injuries, it was in england but i forget where but it made al the main headlines on teh news stations , roughly 10 year ago

some folk are just damn lucky

[pipinfort]

i flew over in a helicopter and i have stood on the edge of the grand canyon and believe me the view is out of this world, the new walkway looks amazing would definately be up for that!

[tadah]

Id parachute off it

[mrskitty]

I felt sick looking at the diagram you attached steeljack-just thinking about it makes my stomach churn
You could not pay me to walk across that.

[panther]

it looks great,

[bullseyebarb]

I hope they are planning to install a substantial guardrail on that sucker! No, this is not for me. I much prefer the pristine nature of the North Rim......and far less tourists.

[SPUGGIE J]

Just out of curio is it a suicide hotspot??