Treefrog said:Quoted message said:I can't recommend a scramble, as I get vertigo 6" off the ground
What about if you started on some really easy stuff on a very tight top
rope? That way, even if you became all dizzy you could just "slump" onto the
rope. Your eyes/brain are used to seeing the ground about 6 ft away, when
you climb, it's seeing the ground thinking "WTF, how the hell do I know how
far away that is, sod it, I'll just go dizzy instead". After you've done it
a good few times, your brain learns how to deal with it - hopefully. And if
not, you would have lost nothing.
I could certainly try again. I did try to overcome my fear of heights
a few times when I was much younger, by doing a bit of climbing, but I
didn't see much improvement for the time I was able to put in. In the
end I decided to just move on, as at the end of the day there were
other things I enjoyed much more than climbing, and there isn't time
to try to do everything.
It's more of a problem now that it seems to have developed to the
stage that even something like Striding Edge is so frightening that it
has ceased to be any fun at all, but I think I have a touch of actual
vertigo now, which is making things worse. C'est la vie, perhaps.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I normally get back to the ODG mid morning, so don't actually pop in.
If you're up there often then maybe a bunch of us can get together at
some stage for a weekend, or at least for a drink? 🙂Yeah, I'm up for that. Alan Hinkes has said he's been climbing mountains
with people he's met in a bar in Kathmandu, so I'm sure a few of us could
get together for walk in the lakes!
That sounds great! Hopefully we'll be able to get some people
together in the new year, then 🙂
Best wishes,
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