This is a video of Tom Scott visiting the Montreal Olympic Sports Centre (built for the 1976 Summer Olympics), which features the only indoor 20-meter diving platform in North America. Apparently cliff diver Lysanne Richard convinced the Montreal Olympics Park to add an 18m platform in the rafters when the
This is a video of a daredevil leaping off a tall bridge into the water of the gorge below and doing a bit of airwalking on the way down. That’s fun. For him — that looks terrifying to me. I don’t care if my middle name is Hite, I’m scared
This is a video of three people terrified of heights watching ‘Fall’, a movie that depicts two women trapped on a radio tower thousands of feet up. SPOILER: They scream and cover their mouths a fair amount. You know, I’m afraid of heights too (despite it being my middle name),
Height: it’s my middle name (well, Hite anyways). But despite it, I’m still terrified of them, so China’s ‘Flying Kiss’ attraction in the Wulong Baima mountains near Chongqing is probably not for me. But maybe it’s for you. FaceTime me from the top so I can live vicariously through your
This is a selfie video captured by steeplejack (a tradesman who scales buildings to inspect/repair them, originally named for climbing church steeples) James Marksbury while hanging onto the top spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City at approximately 1,000-feet. For reference, I’m just over 6’1″, so he’s at
This is a video of Jaylen Murph being hoisted to the top of an alleged 32-foot vertical drop slide when he realizes that’s too high and doesn’t want to go down after all. Per one family member filming: “It’s a slide, let go.” Solid advice. Apparently Jaylen was on vacation
This is a video from National Geographic of radio and television personality Bobby Bones cleaning the underside of the glass Skywalk perched over the Grand Canyon at Eagle Point in Arizona. Allegedly he’s afraid of heights, although a person actually afraid of heights never would have done this. He probably
This is a short video of a vacationing couple parasailing off the coast of Catalina Island, California. The guy recording it is absolutely loving it. His wife? Not so much. And I don’t blame her, that does not look like a good time to me. Hundreds of feat in the