Thanks for all the replies guys and gals. Keep 'em coming. I must say that everyone I know thinks I am totally insane for jumping out of a plane with two parachutes, an RSL and an AAD, yet they're perfectly happy to free-climb El Capitan or similar.
The thing that got me interested in the subject is the fact that I'm terrified of heights, so did my first jump to get over it. It didn't really work as well as I hoped, because once you've jumped and your canopy is open, that fear of splattering into the ground is gone, yet standing on the roof of a four storey building still makes me feel sick. Thus I took up rock climbing, thinking that voluntarily going up would do more for my vertigo than falling down under canopy. Unfortunately even when I'm only about twenty feet up I start shaking pathetically!
To me the risk of skydiving is lower than the risk of climbing: two parachutes, RSL, AAD - as compared to rope fraying on rock, me falling from rock, protection giving way, rockfall, mess on ground. Does this look like I've got it a bit backward to anyone else?
Nick
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The thing that got me interested in the subject is the fact that I'm terrified of heights, so did my first jump to get over it. It didn't really work as well as I hoped, because once you've jumped and your canopy is open, that fear of splattering into the ground is gone, yet standing on the roof of a four storey building still makes me feel sick. Thus I took up rock climbing, thinking that voluntarily going up would do more for my vertigo than falling down under canopy. Unfortunately even when I'm only about twenty feet up I start shaking pathetically!
To me the risk of skydiving is lower than the risk of climbing: two parachutes, RSL, AAD - as compared to rope fraying on rock, me falling from rock, protection giving way, rockfall, mess on ground. Does this look like I've got it a bit backward to anyone else?
Nick
This username sucks, so I'm BBKid now instead. Replies, insults, sexual favours and death threats to be sent there from now on.
Cielos azules amigos
Ed
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