If you feel a slight tremor deep in your stomach when looking down from the edge of a cliff or towering office building, get ready for a pole that will really make your stomach twist! We’ve selected 30 of the most death-defying photographs out there, guaranteed to test even our most daring readers.
Having a “head for heights” is great if you are a thrill-seeker or someone who has to work at high altitudes, and some people consider their tolerance for heights a point of pride, but many scientists consider fear of Heights are an advantageous trait (note: this is different from acrophobia, which is an irrational and often extreme fear of heights). The famous “visual cliff” experiment showed that even one-year-old babies have depth perception and are less likely to approach their mother if they have to cross a glass-covered chasm that may appear to them to be the edge of a cliff.
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