Sunday, March 8, 2009

Are You Strong Enough To Watch This Video? Acrophobia - The Fear Of Heights

Acrophobia as defined by Wikipedia is "an extreme or irrational fear of heights". I know a lot of people who suffer from it (including yours truly). Standing on top of high buildings make my knees shake.

I once went on top of one of Singapore's highest buildings. I was with my friends and we just did it for fun and of course - curiosity. We all forced ourselves to look down from the top and got really terrified. We felt the gravity pulling us downwards which ended our curiosity. Gosh. It's really horrible.

So are you acrophobic or not? Let's see if your stomach's as tough as metal by watching the video below.

Oh, before finally proceeding to the video, let me first put a short introduction about it.

  • The video's taken in El Caminito del Rey (sometimes referred to as just El Camino del Rey which means The King's Pathway) located in Malaga, Spain.
  • The construction of the walkway started in 1901 and was totally finished in 1905.
  • The walkway lacks maintenance and is very much destroyed nowadays making it a dangerous path to walk through.
  • The guy who is taking this video (meaning, his one hand's holding the video while the other's helping him to keep his balance) isn't wearing any safety device at all unlike other adventurers (you can see the others with harness throughout the video) who find thrill and excitement crossing this path.

So, are you an acrophobic or not? Try watching the video to find out the answer for yourself.

Warning: not recommended for the weak of heart

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11 comments:

  1. yikes bru..I'm afraid of heights jud! dili man gani ko ganahan mg tan-aw sa baba didto sa top floor sa UIC building..hahaha.. daw masuka ko bru, feeling ko naa gatulak sa akoa pababa...

    Kahadlok pud anang video bru oi..thanks for the share! :-D :-D

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  2. pero kabalo ka bru I want to visit the tallest building just to give it a try lang..hahahaha..
    happy sunday bru!

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  3. hehe. hadlok na ka sa top floor sa UIC? hehe. di pa to kaayo taas ui. kaw jud! yup. it's interesting bitaw to try. i think they have one like that sa cebu. where you can go on top of the tallest building with harness. gusto nako i try. hehe

    welcome bru. hope you like it

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  4. I don't have a problem with height ma ti-thrill pa nga ako. Nung nakita ko ang video ang ganda hehe kaya lang na imagine ko baka may haharang na snake doon ako mag freak out hulog kaagad ako sa bangin ;).

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  5. wow. galing mo naman. ako kasi, takot. di ka naman mahuhulog totally kasi, may harness. yung kumuha lang ng video ang hindi gumamit ng harness. galing nga eh!

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  6. Nah d jud ko pwede ani, hadlok jud kaau mgtan aw sa baba..I think I have acrophobic and it same with my husband we both don´t high places.. :( it´s yucks

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  7. nah.mao jud. it's really scary for me, too. just watching this video gives me goose bumps. but after watching it the 4th time, i am not scared anymore but i will never dare to go through that path! scary! =-X

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  8. hahaha..bitaw bru no, nice try bah...to conquer our fear of
    heights...tua ng tripping napud hahaha...
    Happy Monday bru! mwahugs! :*:*

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  10. lagi ui. nindot. not sure where. but it's a tall building in Cebu. interesting. how much pud kaya?

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