It's the most fun sport I've ever done, hands down. It never gets boring, either.
I've gone climbing with friends who weren't comfortable with heights. What they did was, they first climbed only two or three meters, got back down, climbed up again but this time a meter higher, until they slowly made it to the top.
After a while you get a different feel for the height. That optical illusion - where 10 meters looking down look much farther than 10 meters across the street - seems to fade (in the knowledge that one is safely belayed).
I still remember the first time I climbed up I came down after six or seven meters because that felt high enough. Two weeks later I looked down from the highest point (about 16 meters) and realized that I had completely lost the feeling of being far above the ground.
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I've gone climbing with friends who weren't comfortable with heights. What they did was, they first climbed only two or three meters, got back down, climbed up again but this time a meter higher, until they slowly made it to the top.
After a while you get a different feel for the height. That optical illusion - where 10 meters looking down look much farther than 10 meters across the street - seems to fade (in the knowledge that one is safely belayed).
I still remember the first time I climbed up I came down after six or seven meters because that felt high enough. Two weeks later I looked down from the highest point (about 16 meters) and realized that I had completely lost the feeling of being far above the ground.