Fantastic, Smapti! As I mentioned, I’ve seen many people drop by from the bar (for a fraction of a second), and I went up once to see the jump point and descender mechanism, but I’ve never seen a complete jump before. That was great.
Thanks Smapti, that was fun to watch and kudos to you and NY for taking the plunge!
Here’s my video. I can’t stop watching it. Did I really do that? 
Awesome!
“Holy fuck.”
“Your camera’s going to hear that.”
“I know.”
Good for you, NY!
Now I’m sorry I never did it during the five years I lived in Vegas.
Congrats, NotherYinzer, and thanks for the amazing video! I could never have done it, partly because I have a fear of heights. I don’t even like being in office boardrooms on the upper floors of tall buildings if they have big plate glass windows!
And yet, strangely enough …
… parachuting is something I have done a number of times. Part of the difference is that jump altitude is so high up that there is no visual sense of height; visually, it’s more like you’re floating over a map. There are also many things to remember to do that keeps the mind occupied. I could NOT walk out on an open platform 100+ stories above the ground, though, where you’re surrounded by visual cues of just how high up you are!
Friends who live there in Vegas tell me that one of the oddest things about eating at the restaurant on the 107th floor is watching people plunge by while you’re trying to enjoy your meal. Kind of like this Monty Python sketch.
There are signs next to the windows warning customers in the rotating restaurant that Parkinson could be next.
(All right, they don’t put it exactly like that.)
IIRC, the first use of one of those by a human was when Dar Robinson jumped off the CN Tower.
That’s a perfect summation. I’ve done a tandem paraglide from the top of a mountain. It was awesome. I nearly lost my shit walking outside the Auckland Sky Tower.
The first time I bungee jumped, off of a crane in Florida. I took notice that the bungee was basically just a bunch of rubber bands tied together. :eek: When the guy asked me how much I weighed, I told him 165 pounds. He then proceeded to use the 155 pound cord, and I asked him why. He said first timers always adds 10 pounds to their weight. He was right! 
The Stratosphere jump looks awesome. Can’t wait to do it next time I go. I go every year but basically just eat, drink and gamble. This will be a nice diversion.
There is a difference between being in an aircraft, unattached to the ground & being up high, whether on a ladder, platform, or even in a skyscraper. I don’t know what it is but I’ve seen it overcome enough times to know there is some psychological difference. Many/most people who are ‘scared of heights’ are okay in an airplane or in a balloon. Of all the times we’ve flown someone who was scared of heights, we only landed early once to let them out; all the rest enjoyed it.
They asked you for your weight without verifying it? When I did the bungee jump off the tower outside of Circus Circus they weighed us twice. Once at check-in and again right before getting hooked up.
I have video somewhere of my jumps off of that tower. However, since it closed way back in 2005, the videos are on VHS and I care enough to get them converted to a format that I can view.
Cool. My plan for my 50th coming up in September is to go tandem paragliding from Grouse Mountain.
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Oooh, I’ve always wanted to try hang gliding. Now I know what I’ll do for number 60.
Now, the platform part, there I have an entirely rational fear. That is to say, I’m acutely aware of the danger, and am highly motivated to make sure that appropriate safety precautions are in place… but so long as they are in fact in place, I’m fine. Glass floor? Sure, no problem.
I had no idea this was a thing, but I just watched half a dozen videos and want to do it very badly. I’ve never had much interest in going to Las Vegas, but that’s certainly an attraction…