I like to climb, but I have a fear of depths, in fact I learnt to climb around the same time as learning to crawl, and frequently ended up in the wrong place of the house disassembling radiators (I couldn't figure out how it got hot). A large part of my life has been getting over that fear by climbing higher, and last year I climbed the grand teton, yup the big one.
http://www.grand.teton.national-park.com/
Oh also I'm a dyslexic dyspraxic (almost)albino hemophilic aspie computer scientist. This is what I get for my ancestry being a cluster fuck of Russian royalty moving to Japan, Americans likely sourced from Ireland, and British blood descended from Scandinavia / Germany. I'm two whole world wars.
(Aspie = Aspergers syndrome)
(The above is also the reason for my user title, which is a phrase my friend monobi coined.)
By the way, a fear of heights includes the fear of tall things, a fear of depth is limited to the fear of falling, so most people do not have a fear of heights, and a fear of heights is closer linked to agoraphobia.
The more you know!
Last edited by Vox; Dec 16, 2011 at 08:55 AM.