I had a real fear of heights. I very broke my partners hand going up a cable car to mount tidy. All i could do was hold her hand and not look down.
My dad was driving a tower crane in Leeds. I was working as a labourer on the same site. He started to take the mickey out of me, for not having the bottle to go up the crane.
So one night i climbed up all 400+ of it. It scared the hell out of me. Said i would never do it again.
However it really got on my nerves that i was letting it beat me. So two days later i did it again. That night i walked out the front jib. Just like in this photo.
With in 4 weeks of this i was driving the one the photo is taking on. 4 months after that i was erecting and repairing them.
Worked all over the country doing it.
I still have a great respect for heights. In the ten years i did the job 10 people died doing the job.
one thing i can say, is its better to walk away from something rather than doing something you are not capable of doing.