Just curious...how is that a "T5"? While probably a bit nerve-wracking, it hardly looks like it required "specialized equipment".
I don't think I would even find it very nerve-wracking. You're completely enclosed inside a metal "cage." Even if you stumble and fall while climbing, the most you'd probably fall is about 4 feet.
I'd probably have to stop a couple times to catch my breath on the way up, but my wife and I climbed 500 meters yesterday to Paget Lookout in Yoho National Park. That was rated T3.5.
All that said, it still looks like a fun event to get to and attend.
If you have vertigo or a dislike of heights, no "cage" or glass can really allay one's fears. Phobias are rarely rational. I wouldn't say I have a true "fear" of heights, but I often get that dropping sensation in my belly when I get close to the edge of a high platform (maybe 50 feet or higher is when it really kicks in). It doesn't keep me from ascending, but it does slow me down when approaching the edge.
Well... the forums are not the right place to have direct dialogues between users, for that purpose we have private messages, by instance.
Even so, and assuming that neither of you have ever been on the amazonian forest, let me give you some details mostly related to the weather conditions.
The main temperature is around 35º C with a 80% humidity, raining heavily several times a day, sometimes. Even if the wind on the ground is almost not felt, above the tree canopy it will make the tower balancing a lot... and slippery if wet by the rain.
The tower was built for scientific studies and only after that opened to the public, and they have some security rules to comply... and so we.
They only allowed the Event if we agreed to use ropes and carabiners to go up and to return... and even in the top according to the wind.
We are not "completely enclosed inside a metal cage" in any step of the way. The stairs and the platform has a fence until the waist, nothing above it, and since the top platform is much larger than the stairs, it would be a 42 meters fall... not 4 feet.
Any more questions (and I remember that I was not the Event owner), please send me a PM.
