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Oh my god, there's a guy riding on the outside at the end of the video. I've been on this lift several times and it's scary enough in the cabins, I couldn't imagine doing that in a million years.


You should try a different angle of imagination: the guy is tied to the cabin (or maybe even the part that is directly tied to the ropes) with a safety harness. You on the other hand, are just standing/sitting in the cabin, not tied to it. Should the doors open, should the attachment somehow fail, ... you would actually be in a less safe situation than the guy. Yeah I know the chances of any of these are minimal, but the chance of anything going very wrong with lifts is on average minimal. Trying to think in another way about it sometimes does wonders for deaing with fears, at least for me.




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