Stunning images not suitable for people with vertigo or agoraphobia
Acrophobia is called irrational and uncontrollable fear of heights. The fear of looking out a balcony, situated on the edge of a cliff or being in a high vantage point, are typical of this phobia. 14 stunning images unsuitable for acrophobics.
Photographer Josh Sudweeks at the edge of Zion National Park. The park is located in Utah in the United States. Its total area is 593.26 km ² and the main attraction of the park is Zion Canyon, a slot 24 kilometers long and 800 meters deep dug by the Virgin River. In the park area are nine aged geologic formations dating to 150 million years, from sedimentation occurred during the Mesozoic Era. The gun was discovered by Mormons in 1850, and lived there from 1852.
The famous Swiss artist Freddy Nock walking on the wire from the cable car to the highest mountain in Germany, the Zugspitze mountain of 2962 meters, near South Station, Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria. The feat was performed by the 20th of August 2011, no bar for balance and no safety harness. Nock wanted to break his own world record as part of a charity event and include the adventure in the Guinness Book as the longest walk and a higher altitude than has done a tightrope without wearing any protection or aid.
An American canoeist falls 70 meters in the winter water of the falls, in the Klickitat River tributary, the state of Washington. The waters were so swollen by the severe winter floods.
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The Cliffs of Moher are located in County Clare, Ireland. It reaches its maximum height, 214 meters north of O’Brien’s tower and the views from the cliffs attract around one million visitors a year.
[From http://ibytes.es/blog_miedo_a_las_alturas.html, (thanks!)]
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