Would you climb a swinging ladder, over a thousand feet high?

[Taverner]

I had a dream about this last night and almost shit myself.

I had a dream I was supposed to climb a ladder attached to an airship, 1000ft above me.

Looking up, you couldn't see the airship because of the clouds.

The ladder swung back and forth, due to winds.

In that dream, I have concluded that I could never do this.

What about you?

[Denninmi]

1. Yeah, not going to happen.

I'm very afraid of heights. Many staircases freak me out.

[Taverner]

3. I can do staircases, glass elevators, airplanes...

I look at what's supporting us, and I am reassured

Swinging from a rope ladder where the wind could flick you off into the sunset is a bit different.

Even thinking about this question gets me dizzy

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

37. You can do glass elevators, what do you think of the Grand Canyon Skywalk?

I would like to go back to the Grand Canyon, I think the Skywalk would be cool!

[Taverner]

38. I would love that!

If I got nervous I would just look at the supports

Swinging rope ladder tho...

[kentauros]

43. Big difference between a glass elevator and a rope ladder:

you're not under your own power going up (or down.) Fatigue would be a huge factor in the fear one would have besides the fear of unsafe/unharnessed heights.

And then there's the part about the ladder being up in the clouds, so you'd have moisture on the rope to deal with, too.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

45. or the fool with a lighter on the ground.

That's when the dream becomes a nightmare.

[kentauros]

46. A little lighter would only work if the ladder

were made out of primer cord

Better to use a flame thrower or a bonfire

[1monster]

47. No, I'd stand back and watch out for Wile E. Coyote, cause I know it's gonna fall...

and I don't plan to be on it for the ride down.

[harmonicon]

2. Never.

That's the one hurdle I still have to overcome about my dream of eventually owning a solid gold flying house.

[Taverner]

4. I just spit water from my nose on that one!

[RebelOne]

5. I used to skydive many years ago, but quit while I still had unbroken bones.

But if I was younger, I might be up for trying it.

[Taverner]

10. Ouch

[MrSlayer]

6. I used to wash windows on skyscrapers.

When I was 18. I still do a lot of high work in my construction job but nothing as crazy as the window gig.

I probably would have done the ladder back then, almost certainly wouldn't now.

[Taverner]

7. I don't think I could have done your job

Washing windows on skyscrapers

I am not generally afraid of heights, but that idea gives me the willies

[MrSlayer]

11. It was fun.

It's also a testament to how little wisdom you have at that age.

I was never afraid of falling, you have double safeties. I was always more worried that a crazy bum would tie my line to a taxi cab's bumper or something.

[pink-o]

8. Depends on how much you're paying me!

Not afraid of heights, but unless I was a contestant on The Amazing Race, I wouldn't swing in the wind on a rope ladder.

[Taverner]

9. Would you do it for a Scooby Snack?

How about $1 Billion Dollars?

I must be a commie, because I wouldn't even do that for a billion dollars

[Helen Reddy]

29. hah! n/t

[pink-o]

39. I'd do it for a house and a paid-off mortgage in San Francisco

Also throw in a couple decades of property taxes. 'Course that might come to a bit more than your original offer of a billion!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

35. I'll do it...

...for $10/foot, doubling the price every 10 feet.

[nolabear]

12. My best anxiety dreams are about ladders and starcases. So, uh, no.

Not on a bet.

[Taverner]

13. Would you do it for....a scooby snack?

I dunno - I have sworn I would never do it, even for a billion scooby snacks

[nolabear]

16. ruh-uh.

I just found out that the slang name fir a Subaru is a Scooby-Doo. Can't wait to tell my son about his new Imprezza.

[Honeycombe8]

14. No. nt

[alphafemale]

15. once you get past 30 feet or so the fall is likely to kill you anyway.

climbing that far would be a pain in the ass, though.

how big and nasty is the thing chasing me?

[7wo7rees]

17. I will not climb that ladder.

But it couldn't be much worse than my dream.

[Denninmi]

21. 3-2-1 Oh, God, that hurts!

Ow.

[cliffordu]

30. That's really going to fucking hurt.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. I hope you dreamed that I wouldn't climb it either.

[Major Nikon]

19. I've scaled communications towers that were over 400' high

I've also been up on shorter freestanding towers that were on the edge of a 1000' cliff. You get used to it. I used to love to climb to the top of a tower and lay down on a platform watching the clouds go by as you felt the wind sway the tower back and forth.

[LeftishBrit]

20. NO!

That would be my nightmare!

[ashling]

22. Oh the humanity!

Did this dream come to a fiery end?

[Taverner]

27. No, just a wake up and a bathroom trip

[ashling]

33. Isn't that always the way?

[Taverner]

36. Works both ways too - snogging with a 20 year old Teri Garr...

And right before things start getting fun, wake up!

[LeftofObama]

23. I'm terrified of heights!

Your post reminds me of something I read that said (paraphrasing) "I'm so afraid of heights that I don't even like being this tall!"

[pink-o]

40. Hey, I'm a 6'1" woman...and that's my line!

Whenever I get asked how tall I am (which is at least once a day) I always answer, then say: "Good thing I'm not afraid of heights."

[LeftofObama]

44. Maybe you're the one I read it from.

I think I read it on the DU a few weeks ago. I cracked up when I read that!

[In_The_Wind]

24. No!

I wouldn't make it if I tried.

[MissMillie]

25. don't know if I'd have the stamina

and in my family, we call them "fladders" (you don't need to much imagination to figure out what the "f" stands for).

[Taverner]

28. LOL...'fladders'

[bluedave]

26. probably

unfortunately I've smoked a pack a day for 54 years-would only make about 20 rungs.

[Xyzse]

31. I don't think a ladder like that is even possible.

That is like climbing more than half of the Empire State building while swinging back and forth.
It would take hours and hours with no actual rest.

I might do it, if each step can handle 2000lbs of weight, even though I am only 160. There also has to be spots every 50 feet where you could rest, with a backward seat, where you can attach a rope that is tied to you in case you fall.

However, I doubt that I could.
I feel sick just thinking about it.

[petronius]

32. Only if the alternative was emphatically less attractive - in the 'lake of lava' genre,

or pool of starving alligators.

IOW, I'd try to climb it only if my life absolutely depended on it...

[polly7]

34. Actually, I would love to do that.

I dislike the feeling of being on the edge of a cliff or the balcony of a tall building, but give me a rope or a zip-line or bungee cord and I'm a happy monkey.

[KurtNYC]

41. I have similar dreams -- elevators that go on above the building.

tiny, tight elevators that go to the 72nd floor even if the building stops at 35 stories. Puny ladders to climb on the cornice of high buildings.

I think these dreams are about trust (or, more specifically, the limits to my trust).

[Iggo]

42. Not without my outie turning into an innie.

[BlueJazz]

48. I'd probably do it for some cash. I'd stop about every 100' and rest for awhile.