EVAN'S REACTIONS CRACK ME UP

"we're literally leaving her hanging"
punning even as dodie is panicking

Emily Bluejeans evan would be me with any of my friends tbh


I find it hard to understand why they let you carry on when you were so obviously distraught :-(

@doddlevloggle that's so brave wow lol🖤💪👍

+seaepy thats so deep and beautiful, love it <3

Just trust yourself to pull through no matter what and weirdly enough, it'll work out that way.

this quote from "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende might be helpful: “Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change."

hey have u gotten over ur fear of death?   im still figuring out how to deal with it

I'd imagine you wouldn't understand. A warrior, you are not.

Abseiling [rappelling for your American fans] is kind of fun, but it's very unnatural feeling and it's completely counter intuitive to trust your life to a rope just fed round a figure of eight shaped lump of metal. However, abseiling down a climbing wallwith big crash mats at the bottom can let you learn to trust the equipment and find out what happens if you let go entirely, etc etc and makes abseiling on actual rocks where actually falling would be fatal much less stressful...

And that's how the champion of dodes pushing the fuck right through depersonalization and a panic attack good for you! Remember that next time you feel anxious!!!  #brava

Fair enough, that's different then. But wow, that was brave considering how upset you were!

+doddlevloggle Good for you Dodes! you're so brave

+louiseglasgow I was the one pushing through! They were always happy to stop<br>I decided in my head this was something I wanted to overcome lol

+louiseglasgow I was the one pushing through! They were always happy to stop
I decided in my head this was something I wanted to overcome lol


I love dodie, she is just so genuine and nice. u can't find many other people as good as her

When someone does a “story time” (I hate that phrase so much) and you know without a doubt that there’s no exaggeration.

Yeah dodies amazing! I wish I could find other people who appreciate her so much around me

She's one of my favourite people on this earth


"I want my life in the hands of a machine" Well, you say that now, Dodie. But when our robotic overlords take over, I can't imagine you'd say the same thing. By then, you'll be wishing for something organic.

Don't remind us! D:!<br>... But yeah, those machines feel far more trust worthy than a human. But they kind of ruin a part of the fun of climbing.

Don't remind us! D:!
... But yeah, those machines feel far more trust worthy than a human. But they kind of ruin a part of the fun of climbing.

Perhaps she has it quite well concering her wish for their arrival beforhand. Second of all, talking about trust issues!

I don't know why but I just can't stop laughing at your comment 😂


The irony of this video is that your LOFT BED is right behind you while talking about your fear of heights lmao

There's actually a bit of a difference. Kinda like how claustrophobic people can ride in cars

Watching this video while laying on my loft bed right now 😂

Asia Dawn Sitting on my loft bed right now 😂

I would never get a loft bed. that would be torture.

Don't make her scared of going to bed now :') lmao


I have no mental fear of heights, but physically I react very strongly it's bizarre. So I really am not frightened but my body shakes for ages if I get even a few feet off the ground. Once I was hanging Christmas decorations at a friend's place and because I'm very tall I only needed to stand on a chair to do it. Just being on that chair sent me into full shakes until well into the next day, like I couldn't write anything down at all for 24 hours because my hands were shaking so much. Does anyone else get this?

this is what happens to me when I perform (Clarinet and Piano) when I'm being tested (be it teacher or examiner) , it's terrible because I'm not that nervous but my fingers are sweaty causing them to slip and play wrong notes and my whole body shakes and if I make a tiny mistake everything just gets worse

Yes! I went up a ladder a few steps in my garden, meant to be going up to a roof, that wasn't gonna happen xD and I was shaking and my dad asked "are you scared?" and yes I was scared haha, someone reply please and tell me you've been in a similar situation where it hasn't been extremely high up

Juliette Hacking I know this is a million years late but I have the same thing. I'm currently playing Wendy in Peter Pan in my community theatre, so we have to "fly" basically standing on these see saw things that go like 3 feet off the ground. I go on it and I'm not scared at all, but my legs shake like crazy and I tense up so much. And the director's like "you ok mate" and I'm like YES THIS IS FUN IGNORE MY LEGS PLEASE. It's odd. Glad to know I'm not alone :)

I can't stand on one of those Home Depot kind of two-step laddery things because I'm so weirdly afraid of falling lmao

Clyde Donovan same 😂 i'm perfectly fine with presenting and speaking in front of class (i'll even volunteer!) but when i do it, my body is shaking like crazy, and i feel nauseous, even though i'm totally fine with it. my body just goes crazy even though my mind is super fine lol

I have a physical fear of speaking and presenting in front of people... but in my mind I'm extremely calm. I never understood it since I had no problem speaking, it is just an involuntary reaction.

Sounds kinda like vertigo which is a balance thing so idk I guess

+emma I'm exactly the same! I had to do a school performance once which I wasn't really worried about, but for some reason my legs (not my hands, my voice, or any other part of my body) wouldn't stop shaking, so I couldn't play properly._.

that's exactly me when doing class/public presentations. mentally, I'm fine. I'm prepared. I get up and I do it and I'm okay. however, every time my friends always tell me that my voice was shaking and I looked and sounded so nervous but in my head I'm fine.

Yes! Its so hard to explain to people because it is not like i'm afraid mentally but my body reacts!

+Matthew Lauder That's good to know but it's such a shame because I love things like that. I remember this one time when I was about 13, I was at like an outdoor retreat and we had to build a tower out of milk crates and like use each other to all climb to the top. It was pretty high up but I managed to ruin everything because my shaky leg at the top of the tower kicked the whole thing over and there were just 5 kids dangling from harnesses in the air- all of them kinda mad at me.

I identify with this so hard! I work at a summer camp during the summers and I have to help run the high ropes course and climbing wall and when I'm up there I shake like crazy but I'm totally calm. But literally everyone else on staff is the same way even the people who only do the high stuff, so we definitely aren't alone in this.

Same I really want to go sky diving before I die.  but if I'm on a latter I shake like crazy and can't breathe,

I know what you mean! I went ziplining a while back and I was so excited but I couldn't stop shaking! weird!

+Juliette Hacking yes same! Mentally I'm aware I'm probably safe but my body just goes CRAZY


I love the end of the video where she is about to go over the bar and is like "oooook" 😂😂💓

I was laughing so much at that. Evan's such a great friend!!!!!!!!!!


As much as I'm proud of Dodie, I'm so freaking proud of Evan. Speaking from experience, hanging in midair is terrifying whether you have a fear of heights or not. I'm so proud of Evan for doing abseiling the entire tower by himself. You both did an incredible job. 😊❤


"My fear of heights" <b>literally four videos later</b> "I JUMPED OUT OF A PLANE". 😂👌

"My fear of heights" *literally four videos later* "I JUMPED OUT OF A PLANE". 😂👌


"I don't need a men. I need a machine " -doddleoddle 2016


i used to do rock-climbing and abseiling in year 8-12 and honestly having a human belaying you is WAY better than having it be done electronically. human error can be greater but i don't trust a robot to do that, really.

Ollie Embourne I go rock climbing and I don't trust the mechanical belaying thing at all, I much prefer having a human.

Came here to say that - I think it helps if you've belayed for a while yourself. If you've never belayed before you won't know how easy it is to hold someone in the rope down position, I've quite comfortably held someone (low down) with my thumb and two fingers in one hand (not recommended, btw).<br>Also re: gloves, you need them for abseiling when you're controlling the rope yourself because things get super hot and finger trappy.

Came here to say that - I think it helps if you've belayed for a while yourself. If you've never belayed before you won't know how easy it is to hold someone in the rope down position, I've quite comfortably held someone (low down) with my thumb and two fingers in one hand (not recommended, btw).
Also re: gloves, you need them for abseiling when you're controlling the rope yourself because things get super hot and finger trappy.

@Seamus Talbot yesss omg it's so much fun<br>i was the oldest by yr 12 so i was also Helping the instructor by belaying the younger ones at that point.

@Seamus Talbot yesss omg it's so much fun
i was the oldest by yr 12 so i was also Helping the instructor by belaying the younger ones at that point.

same here I need to again. abseiling is brilliant


Dodie I saw on s/c that you felt ugly this morning! you are beyond beautiful oh my word I can only hope to one day have those brows of yours!

What really?? Omg I thought she'd looked amazing today!! I thought her hair and lipstick were especially gorgeous


I'm similar... I have a fear of falling. Heights don't scare me (I like looking out of plane windows and seeing the view) but as soon as I'm in a situation where I could fall, I freak out. I feel for you Dodie. I could have never done it.

so true. do they get scared when standing on a chair or a step stool though? lol it's all terrifying to me :)

fairly sure everyone has a fear of falling off of high places, people who didn't took themselves out of the gene pool centuries ago.


the "oooooookay" bit at the end ! I feel you girl I feel you ! I've never been afraid of heights and one day I was out with a group of kids I worked with at that time and we went to one of those climbing parks where you have different obstacles in different heights between trees and I was like "pssssh how hard can this be". Little did I know that 30 minutes later I'd be 10 meters over the ground shaking my ass off trying to smile to not scare the already crying kids behind me even more, climbing through a net with a lot of holes, grabbing onto some ropes for the dear live of me. I was 100% sure this was were I'd die and they'd had to cut my cold body out of this damn net. Never have I ever felt this amount of pure panic.
Constantly talking to myself to make sure I'd breath and keep going. Even thinking about it now makes me anxious.

I am incredibly proud of you for doing this, but let's just make sure none of us has to do this kind of stuff ever agin. xx


Even though it makes perfect sense to be scared it always confuses me a little when people don't like abseiling because genuinely one of my favorites things in the world to do, on school camp everyone had at most like two or three goes and I went for at least seven buts that's beside the point. well done dodie I'm proud of you


"I NEED A MACHINE I DONT NEED A MAN" is exactly how i came out to my mom...


I can't stand at the top of a ladder without feeling like I'm going to fall off, so I understand how you feel Dodie. You were very brave, I wouldn't abseil down anything for all the money in the world :)


Thinking is Troublesome Evan is that you? XD

Evan Edinger wot you doing on a different channel m8

If you're going to go out on a limb with puns like that, you really need to bring a better altitude to your comments.


My friend went down the exact same tower for charity and I had to go up with her and I completely get how you felt! Its absolutely massive and I was literally so scared for her. I go past that tower pretty much every day and it just brings back memory's of looking  down


when Dodie was crying, I just wanted to reach through my screen and hug her


I love watching Dodie's videos, it just makes me super comfortable and fine. It makes me smile, I feel like I'm listening to a friend


There's something about the way you tell stories that I just really love 😊


Hahaha I'm so glad we finally got to see more of the footage! I remember checking your snapchat and twitter throughout the day and seeing how terrified you were, so when the coke video came out I knew they must have put it together cleverly to make you look less scared.  This was funny, oh bless you Dodie.


everytime i go past the lift tower i think of you now lol, i really don't blame you tho i hate heights and it's so high it looks horrific


I'm so proud of you for doing it!! And yes, it's checked off and you never have to do it again! I know how this feels; I did something similar once when I was a kid with a high dive. <b>not fun</b> But I did it! Way to go Dodie!! <3

I'm so proud of you for doing it!! And yes, it's checked off and you never have to do it again! I know how this feels; I did something similar once when I was a kid with a high dive. *not fun* But I did it! Way to go Dodie!! <3


I love how Evan supported you the whole way. You two are so lucky to have such caring friends. <3


Aww Dodie you're adorable! ❤ I loved this story, made me laugh so much!


you're such a good storyteller, dodie! i love this channel's content so much -- i love how real you are and all of your stories are super engaging. i don't get bored when i watch them regardless of how long they are, contrary to most other "storytime" videos (i know that this isn't necessarily a storytime video but it's within the same family, i think).

i go back and watch a lot of the videos where you're talking about events in your life. i watched your "angry" video three or four times and it's never boring.

also, totally off topic, could you do a flat tour?? i'm always so curious about the layout of your flat because i don't think that it's anything like how i picture it in my head. idk if that's a bit creepy/invasive but i'm just curious. :)


I relate to this so much, my parents used to take me climbing loads when I was little but I almost always got stuck cause I was terrified and would refuse to move


The way you told this story was absolutely brilliant and so damn funny!! Definitely need more story time with Dodie videos, because this made my absolute day! Also sorry about your fear, i'm glad you're at least aware of it now (: x


I'm happy that you stayed strong, and I wish I could've gave you a hug telling you it's okay and you didn't have to do it. But you were so brave! Good job


I'm a rock climber, and ironically enough when I first started I was terrified of heights. I'm over it now, but I relate to you so much. also you look super pretty in this video 💛


I have an extreme fear of heights, I found out when I was at the top of a zipline and had the biggest panic attack of my life. I feel ya dodie


I was feeling sad and this made me smile. Thank you Dodie. x


I realized I was terrified of heights when I first climbed on top my sister's loft bed in her college dorm, which was NOT even that high at all. I would've fled so fast from this abseiling activity. You're brave for pushing through!


You're so brave! I also have a phobia of heights so I feel ya 💛


I went on NCS two years ago without realising I had a fear of heights, and we did bloody abseiling! <br>Got all geared up and everything, went to the edge of the rock face, until I was internally (and slightly externally) screaming😂

I went on NCS two years ago without realising I had a fear of heights, and we did bloody abseiling!
Got all geared up and everything, went to the edge of the rock face, until I was internally (and slightly externally) screaming😂


your videos always cheer me up so much thank you dodie ily


Just had to say your such an inspiration to me! your the reason I started playing ukelele and I just love your videos 🌹


Love you Dodie , thank you for helping me procrastinate :)


Evan is such a good friend! I feel like I would definitely want him cracking jokes if I was freaking out like that. (which I 100% would be in that situation.)


Oh my goodness, I definitely know how it feels to be in that kind of situation!!!! I also have a fear of (falling from) heights and it is so bad that if I feel like I'm going to fall from almost any height higher than the roof of my house I will instantly go into shock and either start crying, go numb, or both. So as you can imagine, I am not the world's most roller-coaster-loving girl and I get picked on A LOT by my family when we go to the amusement parks. BUT, I am working my very hardest to go mind-over-matter because I feel like I am missing out on having a lot of fun. Hope you can get over your fears too, Dodie. I love you and your channels, you are brilliant, funny, beautiful, and so bloody amazing.


Honestly, you're such a delight. You have such a wonderful mindset and way of telling things that just bring It to life. never stop telling your stories, because I love them.


it's almost 5am in the philippines but there's a new dodie video so who needs sleep


I find it hysterical that Evan is laughing the whole damn time 😂


This is giving me flashbacks to the first time I went abseiling
I was 13 and I tried 5 different times and just burst into tears every time
In the end the instructor went down next to me helping me every step of the way whilst I was sobbing uncontrollably
The thing is its been 5 years and now I love abseiling and have even been an instructor helping out kids in my position
But regarding the mechanical rock climbing machines the first time I encountered them was last year
I only ever had people holding me up
The first time I tried it I had to climb back down the rock climbing wall because I didn't trust the machine in the slightest
But I was annoyed at myself for doing that so I made myself keep climbing and trying trusting the machine from a metre above the ground then 2 and by the end of the climbing session (idk what to call it) I could go to the top of the wall and fling myself of trusting the machine entirely
It's interesting pushing yourself to your limit


Thank you for talking about this. After watching the CocaCola video (where you were very obviously not fine and yet did go down) I was worrying quite a bit about how and if you had actually given your conscious consent to do this and not being pressured into doing it by the team or whoever.
I'm still not sure about anything but seeing you talk about it and still speaking so positively about the job puts my mind at ease at least a little bit.
Hope you are well & please don't ever let someone pressure you into doing something, no matter who they are or whatever the reasons. Otherwise you might just end up with yet another fear to add to your list. But you probably already know that.
It's not really my place to tell you any of this, so I'm sorry. But I was really worried and I wanted to thank you for making that video that helped clear up at least some of the confusion.
Have a wonderful day, I wish you the very best (:


Dodie soothes me and makes me feel like all this mess of my mental health is maybe slightly fixable...I love her bunches <3


Similar thing happened to me when I was in first year of university. I lived on the 23rd floor of a tower with 27 floors, and when the wind blew strongly, I swear I could feel the building sway. The place had three elevators that frequently malfunctioned and left their passengers stuck. After two semesters in that place, I emerged with a fear of heights.


That tower looked terrifying!!! I'm so impressed that you managed to abseil down! You were scared but you were so brave! Well Done Dodie!! Xxx


This whole video i wanted to hug you! I know Evan's normally the funny guy cracking jokes but even him doing that you can still sense he's worried about you. You're amazing for doing it though!!


As panicky as you were, I'm very proud of you for completing it!!


I respect that you posted this video. Most people hide their fears and insecurities. Instead you embraced it and owned it. Well done.


I found out I was afraid of heights when I was up on a 50 foot high ropes course in Poland, and I didn't know enough Polish to tell the people on the ground I wanted to come down. Haha :)


Well, I would say that's impressive. I saw the picture of the tower and just that gave me a little shiver in my spine. As someone who can start to panic halfway up a stone tower (such as a church or castle tower), you did impressively well.


Aw I loved this! I may or may not be watching this in school oops


"a house and a half" is my new favorite measurement. also, yeah heights are TERRIFYING i climbed up this really tall like 200 ft light house the other week and i was shaking so hard i almost fell on my way back down it was so scary. tbh id probably do something like what you did and be super excited bc i love adventure type stuff but just looking down from really high is the absolute worst.


You're literally me while doing rock climbing or abseiling. I did outward bound and sobbed halfway up the rock wall because it felt like my support rope wasn't tight and they wouldn't let me down until I'd turned around to look at the view. Literally so horrific


I remember my uncle from out of town visited us and on the news they announced that some people were going to space or something and I innocently asked my uncle "Would you ever do that?" and he said, "No I'm terribly scared of heights" and I guess that turned a switch in my head that made me self conscious of heights and I think I can confirm that since that day I am scared of heights. I think before that I was unaware of it, but now if I go to a really high place, even if there's some form of security like glass or a railing, my legs start to get weak and I have to step back for a moment if not I feel like I'd collapse.


Just listening to this story makes me nervous xD I have a huge fear of heights, you were so brave to even do the inside one!


i just love how you tell stories. also i felt bad i was laughing at your suffering but it was just so funny


I remember going rock climbing with my mum and it was the same situation you were in! I was at the top of the rock climbing wall and to get down, my mum had to carefully lower me. I was freaking out about this but then I calmed myself down by thinking, "She is my mum, I am her child, she won't let anything bad happen to me. This is fine."<br>Anyway, long story short, I had a cast on my arm for a few weeks.

I remember going rock climbing with my mum and it was the same situation you were in! I was at the top of the rock climbing wall and to get down, my mum had to carefully lower me. I was freaking out about this but then I calmed myself down by thinking, "She is my mum, I am her child, she won't let anything bad happen to me. This is fine."
Anyway, long story short, I had a cast on my arm for a few weeks.


You look really pretty in this Dodie, as you you do in every other video. Love you Hun, keep being you ❤


You conquered your fear, that is never easy. Sometimes the greatest act of bravery is to battle our own demons. Well done Dodie.  :)


Right when you started talking about "how I need to do this", my heart dropped, I have to fear of heights too, it's so scary!!


ahh just letting you know, you were able to make me laugh for the 1st time in like 5 days cuz im down with fever. and just thank you, ily :)


Evan is a pure bean and Dodie's story actually made me feel like I was there and I got scared for a sec


As someone who has had a fear of heights for as long as I can remember, I was already getting nervous just watching the video. A fear of heights doesn't work well when you also have a very lively imagination, so the first thing I picture when I see a huge drop is me or the person close to it falling off and it freaks me the fuck out. I've been getting better at dealing with heights lately though, so that's good.

I don't know where I'm going with this, but I wanted to talk about my fear of heights.
Bye.


Ohhh Dodie :( I think it's amazing you went through with it though! Even if you were sobbing the whole way through :)


Fear of heights so big that I'm scared when I'm standing on a chair or in a staircase (ANY staircase lmao). I really understand the feeling you're talking about and how you felt in the video! Aaargh it's the worst thing about this fear, it's that once you are there, you cannot control yourself, you know you have to calm down and all but you just can't haha! Anyways, really proud that you did it, I would've never ever been able to do it, all my respect Dodie!


dodie you are incredible. you're so real and lovely, carry on making videos you absolute darling


I laughed my heart out xD Dodie is so much like me !


Oh gosh, I would have died! You were so brave, Dodie! <3


I loved the way  you were telling us your experience, I know it wasn't funny for you but I was laughing all the video. Lots of love from Spain


I used to have an irrational fear of heights until I decided to try a theme park ride and immediately saw how cool it was to be that high up in the air and I am no longer afraid


Your one of my fave you tubers . I love how real you are xx


I just watched the video again, and you can really be proud of yourself. A fear of heights is a very normal thing to have, and even in the video it looks like you overcame a massive hurdle there. You did really well, especially at the climbing wall.

The people securing you a really looked like they were doing a professional and methodical job in the video. All the security measures I'd normally take when doing a top rope and an abseil were there as well as a few extra's (mainly back-ups).

I don't know if they did this, but usually when I take someone with a fear of heights for a bit of a climb, I try to explain the entire securing routine, and what precautions I'm taking to keep them safe. Usually that makes them feel more at ease with the situation. Did they do something similar for you?


I just had to explain to a coworker why I was laughing so hard and I couldn't even speak. This was wonderful.


This is astonishing to me! I love heights and rock climbing, it's funny to me that doddie says "I need a machine not a man" because it's the complete opposite for me. I don't trust the machine at all!!! But kudos to her for doing it! She's even more lovable now!


i laughed throughout this entire video! love you dodie xx


That footage was actually really adorable thanks to  Evan, him trying so hard to comfort you while he loses his shit. Whatta good pal.


i don't have a fear of heights but i do have a fear that dodie will never say hi to me

I have a fear of both :( That's not really a fear for me, I would just love if people that I love noticed people like me, I think one day one of your idols will notice you


That's so funny that you were more comfortable with the machine! I've gone rock climbing a lot and I was always nervous around the machine ones! I learned how to with a person and I figured a person can see me fall but the machine can't. XD


Omg ive never been this early before. I want to take this chance to say that Dodie, you are amazing, ur music is amazing, i relate to you so much! You are seriously amazing! I look up to you so much. Thankyou for existing, living and making videos.- Em


"I need a machine! I don't need a man!"<br>Dodie keep it pg

"I need a machine! I don't need a man!"
Dodie keep it pg


well done dodie that was so brave of you! my phobias are walking alone in the dark which i had to do today ahhhh, the dentist, death and im kinda claustrophobic


Omg i loved this so much, dodie you adorable piece of cuteness !!! Hahahahaha i couldn't stop laughing, i'm sorry <3


Evan is such a sweet heart! I love him so much


I feel this so much. I use to be scared of loads of stuff as a kid and would often have sobbing attacks in public places. I had to go for an MRI yesterday and the minute they bolted me into this metal helmet thing my brain just flipped like NOPE NOPE NOPE so I ripped the helmet off and kinda sprinted out of the room. Panic doesn't bring out my best colours.


I wish the kid that fell into Harambe's enclosure was scared of heights


Well that whole experience is a nightmare - thank you for sharing :P. At school camp in year 6 (I was around 10) we had to do abseiling - I also didn't know I had a fear of heights. I get to the top, my friend takes a photo of me hanging, and I unclip myself and just walk away from the situation haha


Dodie why!! I lost my fear of heights a long time ago and you brought it back!!


I can't imagine what that must have been like! I'm not a fan of heights either and also discovered that while rock climbing. Good job for pushing through, I don't think I could have!


I get vertigo from standing on a bridge that's only 40-60 feet in the air, so to me someone with a fear of heights doing something like this is unthinkable.<br>You are far braver than I.

I get vertigo from standing on a bridge that's only 40-60 feet in the air, so to me someone with a fear of heights doing something like this is unthinkable.
You are far braver than I.


Me too. I cried on a hike in the Grand Canyon :/


I think you did really well there, you still did it.  I find I have a fear of falling - when looking down at a great height I imagine myself falling ... so maybe I should fear my imagination, or maybe that keeps me away from the edge!  I once went on a free fall ride in an amusement park as high as that tower and it was insane - I'll never do that again ...seriously.  x )


im terrified of heights as well so i know exactly how you felt :/ i went on the highest level on a cruise ship once (keep in mind there was only glass surrounding the sides so you could see through to the ocean and we were SO HIGH UP) and i just started having a panic attack and balling my eyes out while my mom was trying to help me down the stairs and trying to calm me down. lets just say that wasn't a very fun experience :) proud of u tho for facing your fears !!


I feel kinda bad for laughing at someone when they're in such a panicked state- but Dodie's response to the guy telling her to flap her arms if she needed to was <b>HILARIOUS</b>.

I feel kinda bad for laughing at someone when they're in such a panicked state- but Dodie's response to the guy telling her to flap her arms if she needed to was *HILARIOUS*.


when I went on a pgl holiday  (it's an activity holiday) I had to do abseiling as well and I had pretty much the same experience. I also had to jump off an eight foot high rock into a cold river, with nobody at the bottom and it was the most horrible thing I have ever done because I couldn't breathe for at least 20 seconds after it


anyone think that when she's crying it kinda sounds like she's laughing? 😂


I went on a ride called Scream, where it's this big tower that brings you up and down at horrifying speeds. I had my eyes closed most of the time (I was 11 and scared shitless) but when we got to the top, I opened my eyes, and there was this gorgeous view of the park. Immediately after that, we started plummeting toward the ground, and I screamed my head off. Had a good time though.


Same here!<br>I remember getting very dizzy and feeling nauseous when visiting a very very very tall building once. Once we were on the roof I almost passed out. It was horrible!

Same here!
I remember getting very dizzy and feeling nauseous when visiting a very very very tall building once. Once we were on the roof I almost passed out. It was horrible!


I feel you, I have a huge fear of height I can't even go up two steps of ladder without feeling like I'm going to fall and die but in planes I'm absolutely fine


I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU X I also have a fear of falling more than heights weirdly


aww dodie, you were really brave for doing something you were so scared of. I'm the opposite with climbing and abseiling. I can't stand the machine things which hold the rope I have you have a person holding the rope idk xx


ahh i totally relate to you, it's so weird like growing up and realising your scared of things you didn't think you were??? like when i was a kid i gave no thought to heights whatsoever but once i got old enough to properly start fearing my mortality (which is later than you'd think lol) it was a whoooole other story


"eh! dodie look! that's it!"<br>I LAUGHED WAY TOO HARD AT THAT PART IDK WHY 😂😂

"eh! dodie look! that's it!"
I LAUGHED WAY TOO HARD AT THAT PART IDK WHY 😂😂


I've always had a fear of steep slopes or just anything steep in general. Walking down stairs or down anything steep gives me the worst anxiousy wheezy feeling and I get all jitter 😅 btw loving you endlessly all the way from Australia xx


just hearing you talk about it made me so anxious oh my god i don't even want to try to imagine what it would be like to actually do it


as someone with a near-debilitating fear of heights, watching this video made my palms sweat SO much


I realised I was scared of heights after trying to do abseiling when I was 11 and I freaked out when I put my feet on the edge of the abseiling tower so you're not alone! x


you are amazing and an inspiration love you dodie


my fear of heights
i jumped out of a plane
character development

*my fear of heights*
*i jumped out of a plane*
character development


I haven't been in your situation ever but just listening to your story made me tear up all of a sudden


This literally the BEST story in the entire world. I've a fear of this too but this storytelling had me laughing so hard. Aaah life, I can't, I'm still cry laughing ! Brilliant.


That's what I was like at camp. Putting your life in the hands of someone you've known for a day is pretty hard, especially when you're scared of heights


Aww, bless you!! Well done for doing the practice bit!! I'm not sure I could have even done that!! x


omg this made my heart beat so fast even listening to you talking about it u were SO BRAVE!!!! <3


Hey Dodie, I have a fear of heights and I used to have to cling to the wall at home when we had bar railings as I could see the ground below and it terrified me. Now I can easily walk down stairs though! It was tough to battle the fear and I'm still aware of it (don't think that will ever go away) but it doesn't terrify me like it used to. Just wanted to let you know its not always gonna be as crippling as it feels rn. Keep your head up, love you! You are awesome xxxx


I haven't been in your situation ever but just listening to your story made me tear up fast


Honestly having someone at the bottom is much safer and so much more comforting than the automatic line - you get to communicate with the person at the bottom and they can give you as much or as little support as you need, the machine just drops you if you fall off, where as you'll stay in the air if you have a person


Sounds like you're working on Blue Peter!


I have been abseiling it was incredible! so scary at first but so worth it, I definitely want to do it again


With me I'm absolutely terrified of heights I get scared just hearing you talk about this but if I definitely know I'm safe I'm completely fine lol


this made me pretty happy about you being able to talk about this because i am terrified of heights. theres a bridge by my house that goes over a freeway and it scares me so much that i have to hold someones hand while going over it, so im a little less self concious about my fear because i always feel like a baby when i talk about it.


I discovered my fear of heights when I was like 9 and it was because of the rope climbing in gym class, I would always be scared of falling right from the top and breaking some part of my body. Still scared of heights tbh.


are you sure its not a fear of falling??


I understand in my head that I'm most likely safe and everything's fine, but I have bad vertigo and when I go up high it triggers really bad dizziness. People always say it's an excuse for me being scared and so a 'choice' (and damn right I'm scared as well) but it's somewhat difficult to abseil when the room is spinning and you're at risk of passing out....!

You're so unbelievably brave Dodie, I could never have done that, especially seeing how upset and scared you were. Well done you for pushing through, it's pretty inspirational! Whenever you're having a down day, remember that this is just another great thing you have achieved, overcoming your fear, pushing through the feels :') sending love and hugs as always ~ Emma x


OMG Dodie! I felt SO sorry for you, and at the same time it was so funny to watch.


I totally get this. My fear of heights is so bad that I will momentarily freeze at the top of stairs, especially if they're in a building I'm not familiar with. If they happen to be multi level stairs then I will skirt along the far wall, if possible.


Oh man I feel this so hard. I did not realize that I was afraid of heights until I decided to go bungee jumping. I cried for like five minutes before the guy pushed me.


Oh God, that sounds terrible :O I can't believe they didn't "react more" when you started crying!

Personally I'm not afraid of heights at all if I'm just depending on a
building or a strong structure (like being at the top of a tower or a
mountain and looking down), however if I feel like my position depends
on me and my physical abilities (like rock climbing, or those tree ropes amusement parks), I just lose it. I was fine when I was younger, but a few years ago, I realised even though I had no problem abseiling along the side of a mountain (because I felt like the harness was "in charge"), I was unable to climb rocks without panicking, because I felt too weak. Same thing last summer when I went to a tree amusement park with my friends, I ended up just taking pictures of them instead of doing the climbing haha


This brought back so many emotions about my fear of heights. This one time at cadet camp....(typed that and couldn't help but think of american pie hahaha) we had to climb a rock wall in front of all our school friends. I got half way up, looked down...panicked big time and my hands clenched so hard. After like 10 mins sobbing and not being able to relax my hands ..my teacher finally managed to calm me down. Was so so embarassing.


I am also SUPER SUPER scared of heights! A few weeks ago I was on the French Riviera with a friend and we were swimming in the sea and we swam to this like spot where people would sunbathe or dive from. My friend had no problem at all diving off that thing. I on the other hand was PETRIFIED. I read somewhere that it's a very common fear if you're more connected to your mind rather than in touch with your body. If you're too concentrated on your thoughts and don't embrace the feeling of freedom (or whatever normal people feel when they do stupid things like that... I wouldn't know I GET SO SCARED) this feeling turns into fear. <br>So basically we are probably a bit too rational you and I. I'm honestly okay with that haha

I am also SUPER SUPER scared of heights! A few weeks ago I was on the French Riviera with a friend and we were swimming in the sea and we swam to this like spot where people would sunbathe or dive from. My friend had no problem at all diving off that thing. I on the other hand was PETRIFIED. I read somewhere that it's a very common fear if you're more connected to your mind rather than in touch with your body. If you're too concentrated on your thoughts and don't embrace the feeling of freedom (or whatever normal people feel when they do stupid things like that... I wouldn't know I GET SO SCARED) this feeling turns into fear.
So basically we are probably a bit too rational you and I. I'm honestly okay with that haha


I feel so similar to Dodie when it comes to these sort of things, no joke
I started dissociating around the time Dodie put up her video about it, and I learned more about it and I was glad that someone else understood, especially someone I look up to. And I've had acrophobia since I was very young because of an accident in which I fell from a tree in third grade and landed on a branch (between my legs) and it tore my hymen. I had a massive panic attack before I was supposed to go ziplining on a trip my freshman year of high school, and I was excited for it originally, and 200 stairs later I was a mess. And that was something I paid for with my own money, too. :(
So I'm really glad that someone I look up to understands how I feel. <3


oh my gosh I'm so proud of you for doing it and like ya know getting that shot ;D honestly though like i didn't mind abseiling when i did it in year 6 lol but i think now i wouldn't be abe to do it at all so GO DODIE


guess you could say that you fear is pretty dodie-gerous sotry I can't pun

One gold star for me! (i know all the words to that song😂)


dodie I've been super depressed and anxious because of school and when i saw you posted, it made me feel so much better love uuuu


I have done abseiling 3 times before. I have done it off a bridge, a wooden building and into a quarry. I did the quarry one this Autumn and I remember being a bit nervous but mostly fine. <br>As soon as I got to the horizontal position, I fell about a meter and my feet slipped so swung into the rock. When I got halfway done I was so stressed I thought I was going to pass out; I started to see swirls and things went blurry. I'm not doing it again 😖

I have done abseiling 3 times before. I have done it off a bridge, a wooden building and into a quarry. I did the quarry one this Autumn and I remember being a bit nervous but mostly fine.
As soon as I got to the horizontal position, I fell about a meter and my feet slipped so swung into the rock. When I got halfway done I was so stressed I thought I was going to pass out; I started to see swirls and things went blurry. I'm not doing it again 😖


10 mins of dodie talk is the PERFECT way to end my day at my new school ahh


Awwww Evan was so nice haha I feel you Dodie


When I was 11 I went rock climbing. It was the middle of January and the rock wall was outside. Found out that day that the fear of heights gets way worse when your hands are numb from the cold. I was at the top when I realized I couldn't hold onto anything (hands too numb) and demanded the rope-holder guy to let me down <b>slowly</b>

When I was 11 I went rock climbing. It was the middle of January and the rock wall was outside. Found out that day that the fear of heights gets way worse when your hands are numb from the cold. I was at the top when I realized I couldn't hold onto anything (hands too numb) and demanded the rope-holder guy to let me down *slowly*


I respect that you went further than your mental wall and you broke through and pushed it as far as you did.  As a former rock climber, the gig did do it right by slowly working you up to that height great job on both sides


I love how at 7:35 ish, Evan was just like "HAH literally leaving her hanging"


i didn't think i'd ever be afraid of heights but i have a bunk bed with my brother and he has the top bunk so when we moved i wanted to switch, i got up and was immediately terrified of how i was gonna get down


Last time I was this early the Harambe meme wasn't dead

Wait I thought it said harambe wasn't dead oops


i want to see the whole raw unedited footage, and then just give you a hug dodie! i think i probably would be the same as your really, like id be freaking out but id force myself just to get through it through sheer will power! proud of you :)


I used to be just like this with heights, I was TERRIFIED! And last year, somehow my sister convinced me to go zip-lining with her. I was so scared, holding off a panic attack, but when I did it it was the most fantastic experience, I can't describe it other than I just felt so free. The next day we then had a tree top assault course to do. I thought that would be fine after the zip-line. Nope, that was still awful. Even though I knew I was safe, I was attached by the same harness system as on the zip-lines except I was moving slowly and I was fighting tears the whole time. But there was a zip-line at the end of the course so that made it all better :)


I remember watching that video and I felt so bad for you omg I just wanted to give you a big hug. Evan was such a good sport though.


School is stressing me out so much but your vids make everything better ❤


I will probs cry when Dodie gets 1M subscribers.


I can't watch this video without feeling like I'm going to cry - this is the last video she made before her brain completely broke for a year and a half


When I was at school we went on this adventure thing and I did rock climbing, i was fine, I went on a zip line and I was fine, I got to the top of the abseiling wall and cried my eyes out and demanded that they put on the floor(literally what I said) 😂😂


I never new I had a fear of heights my entire life until I went on the Ferris wheel at Disneyland a couple years ago. Oh my gosh I was freaking out internally but there was other people in the cart so I didn't want to make a scene. For some reason I decided to go on it again the next year I visited. I thought I would be brave. And what really scares me is the fact that I'm just sitting there with no security or anything to hold onto. If I'm strapped into something like a roller coaster, or my body is covered then I feel super safe, but if I don't have anything hold onto then I hate it!


I felt so bad for you in the abseiling video! At least Evan was there, when I saw him I knew you'd be fine.


where did you get your loft bed?

i have a really small room and itd help me out a lot

been watching for months but can't afford the bed and it's now upwards of £400.<br>so I'm getting a metal one instead hopefully

been watching for months but can't afford the bed and it's now upwards of £400.
so I'm getting a metal one instead hopefully

@Gabrielle Vachon

ive searched ikea but the bed isnt there


the same exact thing happened to me when I discovered/acquired a fear of heights when my camp made us go repelling down the side of a cliff


I literally hate heights so much omg!! I remember in school we were having photos taken with every one in my year, and me being one of the tallest I was at the back but we were up on steps and the barriers were wobbly and basically if one person fell so did everyone so that was fun 😂 I live in northampton and I honestly don't even know how you got up to the top of the lift tower I wouldn't ever walk up the stairs 😂


I can totally relate to being afraid of heights. The majority of my nightmares as a child were about crazy escalators and travelators where you would basically plummet to your death if you let go of the railing


are you going to do a vid on bullet journaling?


I love how you start the audio for little snippets before the visuals,  it's really clever and effective


I'm so so proud of you for doing it, I would've refused completely


I can relate. at 6th grade camp I had to abseil. they told me to jump (I had wires and everything) and I cried because I thought I would just fall straight to the ground and break myself lol. I'm a senior now so I'm over it but it was pretty horrifying at the time.


I laughed so hard, and Evan was too on the video. But I think you could get over your fear of hight's you just have to work with it. I did get over mine and it was very hard and scary. Love you Dodie.


This is exactly how I am, like, in my head I push myself, and in my head I'm fine, but my body's physical reaction is to cry and freak out!!! 😳😂


Oh my god. As a fellow person with a fear of heights, that footage of Evan up there almost gave me a heart attack.


I've had a fear of heights my whole life. When I was nine, I went to Canada with my family and they wanted to go zip lining in the trees and I didn't want to but I couldn't be left alone so I had to go. Basically on the longest zip line everything was fine until I got to the end and just started slipping back and I ended up in the middle of the zip line hANGING SUPER HIGH OVER ROCKS AND THRASHING WATER BELOW (which I found out by looking down which was a big mistake). 9 year old me was crying and just terrified. Needless to say that I am never going on a zip line EVER AGAIN. Yeah. Not a fun experience. I feel your pain Dodie


You literally have just summed me up completely summed up my feeling about heights. The first time I went abseiling I freaked out sooooo much, I have never done it with a mechanical thingy but always with another person holding it, although i did it, the amount of brain power it took to even step over the edge was ridiculous. Although I would push myself to do it again I some how even freak out when trying to jump down from a table to the floor, im not joking and don't even get me started on the top tier seats at the 02. NOPE.


Dodie, it's 10 and  I have to wake up at 6am tomorrow for school :(

i get so much less sleep than that on a normal school night lmao

for a whole year of college I didn''t go to sleep before midnight, to wake up at 6:30. sleep at 11 was/is world news for me


I'm so glad you posted this video after I done abseiling last week! If I saw it before there wasn't going to be any way I could do it haha


It's so amazing to see the progress from this to the sky diving.


Evan is so lovely in this. :) He was so supportive of dodes.


I'm laughing so hard lmao. I love this story so much


Leave it to Evan to still make puns while you're sobbing. "Haha literally leaving her hanging" 😂


Aw! That's good Doddie! You are amazing! ❤❤


I did abseiling once but before that I didn't know I was afraid of heights too. They told me it's just descending a big rock wall 40m tall and I thought how bad can it be? But when we were actually on top of it, I was like struck by lightening and couldn't move.

I didn't want to, but they said it was my turn and I was almost peeing my pants. But once I stepped over the edge and hung on that wall I actually enjoyed that feeling of hanging in the air and looking down and seeing others next to you doing it as well.

I don't know if I would experience that again but I definitely enjoyed it back then!


i need to go to sleep but this vid is more important

i found a better one

I have to get a life but this is more important

I have to eat but this is more important

I have to study for a test but this is more important

I have homework to do but this is more important


I have a thing with heights too, like in my mind I'm not particularly scared of them, but my brain just goes NOPE and freaks out. one time i was standing on top of this bridge that goes over the railway and I'm pretty freaked out over trains and cars and stuff too, and I felt like I was going to faint when the train went past.


OH MAN Dodie I understand what you went through!! I did a ropes course during middle school and it was so high up and I fell off of this floating bridge type thing and had a full on panic attack- like no one could help me out of there because I would not let go of the rope it was dreadfulllllllllll. They finally calmed me down a bit and helped pull me out between the floating bridge slats, but geez I'm still scarred from it. It's honestly so impressive that you went through with it like major props to you because that is such a difficult thing to overcome.


I actually love you, and your hair just makes me want to cut mine! Also, I'm scared of heights too! x


i did abseiling once, but when i was perched on the wooden building thing, i swung from one side to the other and hit my shoulder on the side of it. i then screamed like there was no tomorrow. it also looked like it would collapse any minute. my legs were shaking at the end and i had to sit down for like 10 minutes while everyone else did stuff!


I'm early omfg hey hi hello I should say something special??

Dodie I love you please notice me 👀


THIS KIS HONESTLY EXACTLY HOW I AM. The times I've abseiled I've always thought, 'Oh I'll be fine' but then I get to the edge and I start bawling my eyes out and shaking and find it hard to feel reassured by everyone, oh my god. It's so bad, I physically can't do it, my body won't let me go over the edge. And I TOTALLY get the machine/person thing. I've never done it with a machine but having a person is so stressful, they seem so, not weak, but I feel like they aren't holding the rope tight when they are. Sorry about that hahah


I found out I have claustrophobia on a 2 hour school trip through a cave. Had a severe panic attack the entire time and couldn't breathe. I wasn't allowed to get out at the start because apparently it's too difficult to walk someone back up 20 stairs out the entrance. I 1000000% feel your pain 👎🏼


Totally sympathise, I have a phobia of heights and it's god awful, it affects me on a daily basis and I don't think many people I know understand how terrifying it is


I love you Dodes! Another reason why we are alike Another reason why I love you.


hello mr. doddleoddle. nice video! 10/10

+Iris McShane I WAS LIKE HALF ASLEEP WHEN I WROTE THAT WHOOPS


Oh my god I remember going on a year six camping adventure for a week and we did rock climbing and abseiling, and about half our group cried at the top because it honestly didn't look that high but suddenly realising we had to just drop ;;;;;;;;


dodie: "I need a machine! I don't need a man"<br>i guess, this is why we need feminism? You go, girl :D

dodie: "I need a machine! I don't need a man"
i guess, this is why we need feminism? You go, girl :D


dodie you are such a good story teller I can't


I always said I wasn't scared of heights, I wasn't when I was younger, until we climbed a massive wall<br>literally terrifying- could not do it

I always said I wasn't scared of heights, I wasn't when I was younger, until we climbed a massive wall
literally terrifying- could not do it


I went for an internship interview yesterday and the lady was giving me a tour around the office, and at some point she asks whether I'm afraid of heights XD Because the outside way down from the 4th to the 3rd floor is one of those narrow twisty staircases on the side of the building. And I was like, sure, that's fine, and focused on not thinking of falling the whole way down. There was this one time though, a couple years back, when I was crossing an old hanging bridge. There were several of us and we were being led by this little girl across the bridge. Keep in mind this is night time and the only lights we have are our little flashlights. And for some reason when we were slap bang in the middle of this bridge, one of the members in our group decides to ask the girl if the bridge had ever tipped over. Like, whyyyyy??????!! Also, apparently it had before. So that information was...horrible. Yup XD


I get way to excited when I see one of your videos in my subscription box, love you so much ❤🙌🏼


Her voice is so soothing like it’s so calming .


You just summed up how I felt on the Via Feratta in the Lake District. It was a horrible experience but I'm proud for getting through it. You should be proud too, Dodie xxx


I could've sworn dodie uploaded this before hmm,,either way I enjoyed this love a good bit of story time w dodes💜


i also have a huge fear of heights too so i cAN tOTALLY understand the-sweaty-hands-inducing-fear and oh my god i'm so proud of you for getting through that shoot omg i wouldn't have even been able to do the rock climbing lskdjalksjd


i love u dodie. u are so real, so much support for you xxx


This was my experience last week with rollercoasters. so accurate omg.


i'm not afraid of heights myself, but maybe after i encounter an experience likes yours i probably will be. thank you for sharing this! really puts in perspective how awful the phobia of height is. :p


I was exactly the same, i didn't know I was scared of heights until I was 250ft in the air doing an obsticle course balling my eyes out😂😦


I've slowly been losing my fear of heights as I get more into caving/spelunking


I got so anxious watching thee footage, I have a massive fear of heights and even a thought of that qould freak me out and it was difficult to see Dodie so panicky!


I have a fear of heights too! I get paralysed and laugh hysterically in response to even being on a swing


I got serious depression and your my Inspiration to keep going....thank you so much


dodie is exactly the kind of friend i need right now :)


Also I'm absolutely terrified of heights, I will literally avoid heights at all costs. Love youu 💞


I discovered I was afraid of heights whilst I was on a scout camp for a week in the lake district. There was activities through the week and one of them (I can't remember the name exactly) was where you climbed up a tree... thing and jumped off. Oh BOY that was not fun. Halfway up the tree thing I looked down and fucking froze and clung on to it for dear life. When I finally got to the top I just stood there shaking so near tears (in the rain might I add so the platform was slippery) for like ten minutes whilst everyone else was saying "just jump! it'll be fine!" because that's supposed to be comforting apparently.

Ah, scary scary memories. Fun fun fun.


OMG I love your makeup. Tbh though you could literally put gravy on your face and you'd still look beautiful. I'm so jealous of you and also so in love.


It's gotten to the point where I just 'like' your videos before I watch them because I know how much I will love them :)


aaw Poor Dodie! We all have our fears (cringey I know) lots of love xx


Aww I feel so bad... I also have a huge fear of heights and I totally get it. It's actually horrible cause of all the people who don't understand it. Like, I'm scared to climb on a fricking chair... I remember the first time I went on a water slide. I was shaking so much and it was horrifying. Buildings without elevators are my worst nightmare. 😖


I'm petrified of heights too, and it happened all of a sudden whilst I was on the Eiffel Tower! How embarrassing when I was crying the entire time and holding onto the middle of the tower, I couldn't go anywhere near the edge! It's not transitioned to planes, I hate flying because I hate knowing how high I am in the air!


this reminds me of this thing called the power pole. it's a literal power pole (the giant wodden ones shaped like a cross) and you literally climb up it. you climb up a power pole in the middle of the forest held only by a camp counselor holding a rope that you're tied to.
and then you jump off the top.
ITS TERRIFYING but if you ever get the chance you should totally do it! i think there is a video somewhere on youtube of somebody with a go-pro at Camp Hanes that filmed it.


a few weeks ago i was at a camp and one of the activities was high ropes. naturally, i thought that we were going to be climbing ROPES like in gym or something. hahaha NO !!!! we were supposed to climb a 20-30+ foot high LOG, walk across another maybe 20 foot long log (which was only about a foot wide???), go back to the middle and just FALL BACK. we were attached to a harness like the one dodie and evan were and it was held by a counselor. When it was my turn (i was dumb and volunteered to go third) i didnt make it past the LADDER and started bawling my eyes out sksksjsj!!! i made myself go again after everyone else and i made it to the third ring (the only thing we had to step on were these two inch metal rings) and BITCH. BITCH!!!!!!!! my hands hurt like hell and i have almost NO upper body strength. so naturally i start sobbing again. and the pole was shaking too. so yeah!!!!!! i wish i could do it again but i probably wouldnt make it all the way through haha


i wouldve been the same, im mildly afraid of "the unknown" where im not in control and i dont know what can happen! so if i was to be stuck where my life is in someone elses hands and im being pulled down into nothing, i would be terrified out of my mind omg


I have always been an oddball with heights, I can happily climb/be on natural heights without the panic induced fear I get on man made heights! Put me on a tall bridges/towers etc I will freeze and most likely cry (I was on Tower Bridge in London in January and I had a full blown panic with everybody just looking at me as I was (panicky) determined to go in the glass floor to get a picture to show my dad while I imagined every possible scary death possible as I also repeatedly asked the staff If I could die or if the glass could break doing this haha... I also may or may not have smacked my friend in the chest when she decided to jump onto it when I was on it.) But I can happily climb mountains and glens without a problem, I've climbed Ben Nevis and Glen Nevis happily many times without any height fears. Its odd.


Well done Dodie! I don't think I could ever do that! X


I am the exact way. I get petrified when I'm standing next to those glass railings on the third floor of malls. I get the hibbie jeebies from even lookin at them


as someone who climbs at least once a week and is also afraid of heights I would like to comment upon being let down. the thing you like more is called autobelay and the thing you were doing was toproping. I guess it's personal preference and depends on who is belaying you but toproping feels so much more safe to me because if you fall then you stop. about the knots in abseiling, dunno if they told you, but the important ones are self tightening which means the more weight you put on them the tighter they get and they won't come out. I know that personally, knowing more makes me less scared of things. hope this helps anyone afraid of rock climbing, abseiling, or heights in general. also would like to add that I wasn't afraid of heights at all until I watched someone fall 50 feet and get really badly injured and that really messed me up for a while and still makes it hard for me to do certain things.


Aw Dodie! So proud of you for getting through it though xx Where did you get your shorts from? As I noticed them in the 'standy-up' part and I really like them xx


at like 0:32 you're so precious idk what we did to deserve someone so amazing as you


Just paused the video to say your hair looks gorgeous and so healthy😍!


I was nearly in tears watching this video. "I have a massive fear of heights" is an understatement for me.

EDIT: I feel sick just looking at the fucking building.


when I went abseiling with my school(although it probably wasn't as high as that) I had control of my own ropes so I had to hold onto them. So if I let go, I was gonna fall, i felt so much better though knowing I had the control :P


Aww poor Doodie... I notice you very nervous in the Coca Cola video, but I never knew how hard it actually was for you ;-; I'm glad you can share and actually tell the story behind it!


Throughout the video, I've been saying, "OH, HONEY, I KNOW."  God, the idea of falling solo is terrifying - even if it's just a few feet (slipping on the ice as a child and very much hurting my derrierre will do that #MichiganLife). I've gotten a little bit better about it, as I was helping repaint this building and that required being up on a ladder often, but still, my body just kind of freaks out. It kind of becomes Charles Lee from the Hamilton song, "Stay Alive" - "EVERYONE ATTACK " "RETREAT!" "ATTA" "RETREAT!!!!!"

Throughout the video, I've been saying, "OH, HONEY, I KNOW."  God, the idea of falling solo is terrifying - even if it's just a few feet (slipping on the ice as a child and very much hurting my derrierre will do that #MichiganLife). I've gotten a little bit better about it, as I was helping repaint this building and that required being up on a ladder often, but still, my body just kind of freaks out. It kind of becomes Charles Lee from the Hamilton song, "Stay Alive" - "EVERYONE ATTACK -" "RETREAT!" "ATTA-" "RETREAT!!!!!"


I remember in 9th grade we went on a field trip to a climbing thing and I climbed up despite my phobia of heights but when I was on top I was supposed to like run over something and I started SOBBING and my biology teacher who was with us filmed it and showed it to the entire class .. WHY THE FUCK


I'm afraid of heights too. :/ I did walk on the see-through glass bit in the CN tower/Space Needle and then I couldn't move. And going up St. Peter's Basilica dome in Rome was really terrifying too. ^^' I couldn't enjoy the view since I was so petrified haha. Kudos to you though for going through this.:) I would never have gone through with it. D:


I feel like it's weird that I love heights, like I'm quite obsessed. I love sitting on edge of rocks jutting out of really high cliffs and walking on paths with steep drops and I love cliff jumping and abseiling, I've always wanted to climb a crane but yeah........tis illegal.......so yeah! just another pointless comment :)


ever since i was a little kid, i have been scared of heights. i could walk on my legs when i was one years old, but instead i walked on my knees cause i thought it was scary walking on my legs. it has always been that way. just standing on a chair makes me nearly cry. when i'm around heights i have to be with someone i trust and hold on to them. that's the only way it gets less scary.


I did something like this and practically the same thing happened, I had a giant panic attack half way down


i've never been afraid of heights when it comes to being in a tall place, like a building or a skyscraper. But if you put me hanging on height (like, from one i can fall, because i love stuff like canopy) )I will freak out and cry for my life, like I was never able to climb the rope at school because it was too scary for me.<br>I remember once in a school trip we did arborism and I was crying the whole time.

i've never been afraid of heights when it comes to being in a tall place, like a building or a skyscraper. But if you put me hanging on height (like, from one i can fall, because i love stuff like canopy) )I will freak out and cry for my life, like I was never able to climb the rope at school because it was too scary for me.
I remember once in a school trip we did arborism and I was crying the whole time.


Dodie the exact same thing happened to me. I had no clue that I was afraid of heights until i was climbing the ladder to the top of the wall. I was half way up the ladder and I started balling intensely. But the ladder was too steep for me with teary eyes to climb down so the crew at the top told me the only way for me to get down is to get up and absail my way down the wall. The crew at the top literally had to grab my arm once I was in reach and hoist me up since I was going so slow!! I didn't stop sobbing until I got to the ground 😂 mind you this wall was only 10 meters high!!


Rock climbing is a hugeee thing in my life I do it like everyday! I have never used the machine I have always had a person holding me! You get used to it! I would recommend continuing climbing!


I, too, am fucking terrified of heights, and I am just outrageously impressed that you went and did the first bit. I would have nope'd all the way home. Good Job Dodie!


this made me want to cry laugh because I know this feeling so much. My fear the dark bugs and falling


When I was in sixth grade we went to a camp where they hoisted you up a tree to walk across a tightrope. But the pulley system was the same thing as you described, only we were being held up by a few of our classmates. MY LIFE WAS IN A FEW 11 YEAR OLDS HANDS. I lived though. surprisingly


I'm so sorry Dodie. I know EXACTLY how that feels, but I'm just mega claustrophobic. If you put me in an elevator, I'm a screaming, panicking, crying ball of frenzy and I WILL punch you if you force me into an elevator. So yeah :)


I thought it would be great to face my fear of heights by abseiling down a set of waterfalls in Ecuador. First 2 were about 5m high, fine. Rushing water, no big deal. Third waterfall we had to abseil halfway down and clip ourselves onto another line and jump OFF THE WATERFALL INTO A POOL 20m BELOW. Once you're there, you can't get back up the other waterfalls. I was sobbing the entire time.


I went abseiling in Wales with glasebury off a bridge and I loved it Iv never really been scared of heights but I have realised as Iv got older Iv become more scared of the dentist even though heights and the dentist is different things 😂


The thing is that you stood up to your fear, and that enough is very fucking admirable. 💛


i get panicky when i go up to a second floor office at work and i would feel so anxious inside my body and start getting hyperventilating and feel like going down quick.and even think about the heights of my memory and gets my anxiety high by thinking about it.


I've done that before where you have to go through with something that is terrifying you and you're panicking the entire time.  It's happened a few times, but the worst was my senior year of high school, we went white water rafting.  I should preface this by saying that I can't swim.  We had such a bad winter, the rapids were all 2-3 classes higher than usual.  We flipped on the first rapid.  I had to get back into the raft and then they put me in the very front, where you can't hold on to anything with your feet to stay in the raft.  It was awful.  I survived, but never ever again.


this is literally my entire life i used to be uncomfortable with heights but sort of ok, and then i went abseiling and when i was going down lowered my bum too much and FLIPPED OVER. needless to say i'm terrified of heights now i can't face them


I went zip-lining and repelling (which is basically what you did) and we had to repel down a   50 foot tall tree to get off the zip-line course. The issue was no one told me this otherwise I would have never gone. So I get there and they make me go down first and I start crying hysterically. I reacted the same way you did. The only difference was I didn't have an extra person controlling my way down. I had to do it on my own and I almost pissed myself 💀


I think with anything like that, it really helps if the first time you do it is ten feet off the ground at a climbing wall over nice thick crash mats, where you can play with the equipment and learn what happens if you try various things, and develop a level of trust in what you are doing in a situation where you know a 'catastrophe' isn't even going to hurt never mind horrifically kill you... I imagine abseiling down a 200 foot wall is a lot less scary if you are comfortable with using a descender and trusting it first...


Abseilling be so scary. Ive only tried it once at a camp and I couldnt do it. Like leaning backwards over a huge height is So unnantural and surely goes against all the instincts of not-falling-over-tall-things-and-dying. You were so brave continuing on even tho you were crying!!


aww, you poor thing! honestly, i would've been the exact same way. there's no way in hell anyone could get me to do that. i've been scared of heights for as long as i can remember.


you should be so proud that you did it! well done!!


omg I would've been scared!!!!Though I love heights but not that high!!!I'm happy that you made it safely down.


This was me when I went hang gliding, it wssn't even that tall but i literally just started crying and everyone had to comfort me and be like yeah yeah you'll be fine. Although, they had like army grade machinery so... but still. Since then I can't even sit at the top of the bleachers at school... it's bad.


I've got a good head for heights I did an arial assault course a 200ft above the ground and the first part I had to dangle before getting to the start and I handled it very well. I also do quite a bit of climbing so I'm good with this stuff.


thank you so much for making my day easier by simply uploading a video.


Oh Dodie!! I'm so sorry... but I can't help but laugh a little! I don't really have a fear of heights, but I have a fear of falling. The rock walls would have been fine for me, but I probably would have reacted similarly to the abseiling portion. I think I would have liked to try the outside one, though, if only for the view -- it looked gorgeous, from the footage Evan got!


You're so brave! I wouldn't be able to do that!!!


bless u dodie and also bless evan with his silently laughing face


I have a fear of heights (like I can't look over a relatively high bridge) but weirdly I'm fine with climbing/abseiling


I love you, your videos and your music a lot. ❤


(watching this back during lockdown don’t mind me) <br>but I live in Northampton and as soon as you started talking about a tower I knew you meant the Lift Tower - you are so brave to have done that as you can literally see that thing from the other side of the town so well done!

(watching this back during lockdown don’t mind me)
but I live in Northampton and as soon as you started talking about a tower I knew you meant the Lift Tower - you are so brave to have done that as you can literally see that thing from the other side of the town so well done!


Let's go story time of my own.

So, very near where I live, there is this thing called Tree Runners. And as the name entails, you 'run' through trees. Okay, not quite. It's 'lil activities like bridges, and tightropes, that sort of thing, generally quite high off the ground, depending on which course you're doing. 'Treerunners is an exciting, challenging and sometimes demanding activity that uses zip lines, snowboards and tarzan swings as well as other challenges to get you from tree to tree. Set in a beautiful oak forest, it is the perfect day out for families, birthday parties, hens, stags, first dates (or last) and school trips.' is the description from the website. I've done this three times before at the old one, twice on the smaller one, and once on the bigger one. It's my brothers birthday , and my mum suggests we go tree running. Me, my brother, my older sister and her boyfriend. We all agree to go on the smaller course, as it was everyone else's first time, and I wasn't that confident with heights anyway. So, we get to the place, get our harnesses on, nervous time, e.c.t. I get through the first course fine, with only little struggles on jumping off for the zipline. The second course is harder to start, and just generally more challenging. However, i've done this course before so it isn't too bad. When I get to ziplines, i tend to get a bit nervous and shaky, so I can't put enough power into the zipline. (my hand is shaking typing this). On a zipline, another bit and zipline away from the end, my hands are really starting to hardcore STING, where the other parts have been hard and I have gripped on for dear life. So, I do the zipline as I normally would, grab on to the blue rope at the end and pull myself up. Bearing in mind, i'm usually very shaky with this anyway. Especially as someone with bad upper body strength, as i'm quite heavy. So, when i get to the end of this zipline, I grab on to the blue rope, but i grab on too quickly. Instead, I end up slowing myself down, so i'm 5/10 feet from the platform. So, I start pulling myself. This is where I realise just how much my hands hurt, and I start to tear up a bit. My sister looks over worried, but I just smile. Then, my hands really hurt and i just can't pull myself up. So I fall along the zipline. Also, side note, these harnesses and attachments literally have no way of coming off. But, as i'm falling along the zipline, I don't realise my hands are still on the rope, so of course I rope burn them even more. At this point I am sobbing from the pain, and sheer panic of the situation. So my dad grabs my legs, and tries to push me towards the platform. Rinse and repeat. I grab the rope, lack the body strength to pull myself up, slip back. I'm sobbing all over the place. And then I think how everyone can see a great lump of a 13 year old sobbing on the smaller course... My anxiety kicks in. The guy comes over with this giant pole, which allows you to push yourself forward when you're in midair. I'm still crying, so my hands are shaking and my grip is loose. Because, you know, they still hurt. So I grab on to the rope, get my feet on the platform. At this point I have to reach up to grab on to the zipline, because my weight is over the platform. As I do this, I realise I'm slightly more to the left of the platform, and as I reach up, my left foot slips off said platform. And I SCREAM because I'm so scared. I manage to pull myself up, sobbing and shaking, get across the bridge and do the final zipline (easy because it goes down). And thus, my story of why I hate heights even more and I vow to not even get within close proximity of the tree runners centre.


I don't have a fear of heights, i have a specific fear of abseiling. I took part in NCS over the summer and rock climbing and abseiling was one of the activities. rock climbing i absolutely loved, something about pushing myself physically and mentally, i don't know why i was just loving it. the abseiling on the other hand. different story. I didn't get gloves. and it was the same as Dodie described, so my hand was burning it hurt so much. then all of a sudden i cant move. at all. there is a metal loop that your ropes hook through and my whole head of hair is trapped in it. if i try to carry on moving, it pulls my hair tighter. my entire body weight is either on my hand, or my hair. this is where i start freaking out. just ridiculously sobbing on the side of a cliff. to cut a long story shot they leave me hanging there, clinging on for dear life, for what feels like forever (it was probably like 30 seconds). until eventually they pull all of my ropes back up to the top and do what they call an 'emergency decent'. Safe to say i will never do that again. -side note: my hand was black by the end of it.


i did abseiling at this summer camp once and i've always been a bit fearful of heights, but thought "hey this isn't too tall, i can do that, YEAH GREAT i am a CONFIDENT PERSON" etc blah blah. so i get to the top after climbing up all the ladders and i realise my legs are shaking uncontrollably. the instructor is probably used to this and i was thinking to myself "yeah, totally this is totally fine. no problem here". then he straps/clips me in to this harness shit and he's like "ok, don't hold onto the rope here (above my head, where you would naturally want to hold a rope you believe is your only tether to the world of the living), hold it here (like right next to my hip. wtf) and lean back as though you're sitting on the toilet with your feet on the door" (?) lmao, so i'm stuck at the top, shaking like a leaf, attempting to lower myself down into the proper position and also attempting to not scream out in terror as everything looked TINY from where i was. i felt a bit woozy, but i leaned to the side to see how far down it was, and thus proceeded to projectile vomit. it literally splatted directly on someone's coat that they'd left at the bottom. i cried like a baby and had to get pulled back up. this was a tower probably a quarter of the quarter of the tower you went down. so dodie - well done. you did really well, be proud of urself. at least your breakfast remained intact.


Dodie! I am afraid of heights too! And people told me doing a high ropes course would help me face my fears and get over them. Spoiler: it did not.


I used to have nightmares as a kid where id be leaning against the railing of something and it snaps and i plummet to the floor, i cant even look at someone get too close to the edge of a big drop without nearly crying i understand 100% what that must have felt like


I actually got scared listening to this, that's how strong my fear of heights is


I could never do that either it's okay dodie! I did rock climbing once and I fell... Broke a bone lol... UR OKAY <3


I have a fear of heights. My family went to do this skyline tour (you walk along the building that's like 40 metres high) when we got to the top I just broke down..... I really wanted to do it for myself but I couldn't.


In my experience of wall climbing, a person with the rope is a million times better than a machine! I just don't trust the machine to actually catch me.


That last clip were you say 'ooooooooook.' totally shouldn't laugh at it but made me laugh. Love you Dodie.


I went to Go Ape for my twin's bday a few years ago. I liked the first part of it but at the second half of it I cried. I HATED IT SO MUCH. A few years later for my 13th birthday(I think lol) I wanted to go back and do it again bc I thought it'd be fun blah blah blah. TURNS OUT IT WASNT. I almost cried again. And I was really crabby towards my family and friend who went with me during the course bc I was so terrified. Fair play though by friend was so helpful 😊 I KNOW HOW IT FEELS. And poor you for when the person was trying to force you to do it aw ;(((( xox


I can't even imagine. I literally had a breakdown on a rock climbing wall before and it wasn't even that high.


Dodie, you are so much braver than me. On my year 7 residential we had to do abseiling and it was only a couple meters high but I couldn't do it. I was in tears but I kept saying I'd do it but right at the last second I refused. I am so terrified of heights


I'm so bad with heights, I went to a theme park with all my friends and was just sat at the side the whole time 😥


I'm scared of heights too! I've never actually had one, but I get really close to having a panic attack when I'm up high, it's horrible, I don't know what to do about it...


I'm scared of heights but at the same time I feel like this would be so cool and wanna try it


Dodie your so adorable see I also did this and I'm absolutely terrified of heights


I'm finding it harder and harder each video to believe dodie is being honest


I am 13 and have a fear of heights...<br>2 years ago i went on a reasidential trip and we did trapeese which was basically jumping off a telephone post and trying to grab a bar. I cried for 5 mins 😂 then last year we went on a residential trip and we did high ropes and i was stood on this one platform for 5 mins...

I am 13 and have a fear of heights...
2 years ago i went on a reasidential trip and we did trapeese which was basically jumping off a telephone post and trying to grab a bar. I cried for 5 mins 😂 then last year we went on a residential trip and we did high ropes and i was stood on this one platform for 5 mins...

Sophie-Grace Philip lmao I’m 12 and it’s scary how much I don’t have a fear of heights. Like I was on this park ride and I was REALLY HIGH UP like the people under me just look like burly dark blobs and I looked straight down and felt nothing. I was bored


Awwwwww DODIE!! I honestly don't blame you. I wouldn't say heights are one of my biggest fears but falling on the other hand. I HATE FALLING. Any roller coaster or fair ride with a 90 degree drop.....yeah no thanks 😂


I am so afraid of heights, no one could pay me enough to do what you did!xx


That's really strange because with climbing I'm exactly opposite - the machine thing ( it's called an auto-belay) terrifies me because I worry that it would break :(


I've been to Go Ape quite a few times now and I'm good with heights and being up in the trees, but last year I did something a little different. With Go Ape you do it all yourself, if you've been you'll know. But you hook yourself up to the wires about you and you can't fall and I'm good with that. Last year I did a similar thing except some bloke at the bottom was holding my rope and it was all on him, if he let go I'd fall. It was awful and I cried in front of a bunch of little kids because I didn't trust the man, I agree with you when you say you prefer machines or a least doing it yourself. At least you can say you had a go at it though :)


Yeah not watched the video yet and I have to agree, I get vertigo at heights. I like to call it by its Latin name 'Acrophobia' because it sounds cooler but really at its worst I get mega dizzy just going up a stepladder.


I have a fear of standing next to tall buildings and looking up. I'm always afraid they'll fall on me or something. Whenever I look up, my knees go weak. It's terrible


evan is just the best! I'm sorry it was such an awful experience for you, personally, I love abseiling. so much adrenaline.


holy shit the same sort of thing happened to me tho<br>i wasn't that afraid of heights but then i went up to the top of a bell tower, proceeded to have a panic attack, and now even things like stairs freak me out.. i wonder why that happens

holy shit the same sort of thing happened to me tho
i wasn't that afraid of heights but then i went up to the top of a bell tower, proceeded to have a panic attack, and now even things like stairs freak me out.. i wonder why that happens


I realized whilst watching this that my face reacts to your vlogs like you're right here and we're having a conversation.


I never used to be afraid of heights until I got really depressed because I was actually afraid that I might lose control over myself and just jump off a tower (for example) <br>now that I've overcome this stage of depression(maybe just temporarily) i feel mostly fine going to high places whereas during my depression (i gotta say it's never been this bad again, i would maybe actually say i'd been suicidal in hindsight)  my legs would shake and i would only want to sit on the ground to feel "safer"

I never used to be afraid of heights until I got really depressed because I was actually afraid that I might lose control over myself and just jump off a tower (for example)
now that I've overcome this stage of depression(maybe just temporarily) i feel mostly fine going to high places whereas during my depression (i gotta say it's never been this bad again, i would maybe actually say i'd been suicidal in hindsight)  my legs would shake and i would only want to sit on the ground to feel "safer"


Honestly I relate as someone who has every single phobia ever


"I don't need a man, I need a machine."Same Dodie, Same.


It's great how Dodie answers lots of the comments, it's so nice.


ahaaa yeah i didn't think i had a fear of heights but then i went to germany for a week, went up the cologne cathedral and realised about 2/3 of the way up that i REally didn't like how high i was. first there was like a massive spiral staircase which was okay bc it was an enclosed space made of concrete but then you got to the base of one of the two towers and you could see to about halfway up the tower and there were gaps in the walls of this tower like massive windows without glass and in the middle of this tower was a metal caged staircase with like the "stair/platform" bit and i began walking up them with no problem but then i realised about half way up that i was vEry high up and i did not like it one bit. i think i may have had a panic attack bc i couldn't move i was holding onto the railing and i was like crying and i couldn't breathe very well and my friends carried on up and said they would come back for me after if i made my way back down ((i couldn't)) and my other friend who also realised she was afraid of heights stayed with me while we were both kinda just crying and in the end my teacher had to basically hold my hand to get me up the rest of those stairs, and we finally got up to the second half of this tower. there was a bit around the outside of it where you could walk round and me and my also panicky friend decided to do that. REGRET. there was only a flimsy metal fence between me and 100 metres down to the ground. i had to hold on to both sides and take tiny steps and my friend asked me to hold her hand bc she was on the verge of another panic attack, as was i. so we made it round, and what really got me panicking more was the fact that i could see the other tower from where i was and i didn't like it. we eventually made it back down ((very slowly back down the spiral staircase with me taking shaky breaths)) and i can guarantee i'm never doing that again


im scared of heights too, I cried when I did abseiling in year 6 for a school trip, I'm now in year 10 and still terrified


I have a really bad fear of heights as well ahaha, watching her hang onto that railing made my hands so sweaty omg


When I went on my year 6 residential. I abseiled at it. I was a bit cocky. I kept saying I can do this. But when the time came for me and my friend to go down, we both cried and it took us like 5 minutes to actually start. I didn't want to lower myself down so I got rope burn on my hand. You could see the raw flesh. That was over 3 months ago and I still have a pink mark on my hand. And it was outside, so I could see everything. One of the scariest moments of my life. Lol.


"I need a machine, I don't need man". I don't know why, but this phrase had me in tears


I went rock climbing a couple of months ago & I'm only really scared of heights if they feel unstable/unsafe. I had the instructor holding my rope & he just said to tell him when I wanted to get down. So, I climb about 3/4 of the way & my legs start shaking, I start sweating, panicking,  I feel unsafe & so I asked him to get down. In response, he bloody says "Oh no, you can carry on!!" So I'm there, almost slipping trying to get to the top, still shaking, begging this guy to let me down & he keeps telling me to go further?? I ended up just screaming at him to let me get down, overall a traumatic experience 10/10 would not recommend.


Omg theme park rides and heights are my 2 biggest fears on earth!! Actually, maybe spiders too now that I think about it. They nasty.


On the bright side, you did it! Even if you were terrified, you managed to do it. I know exactly what it's like having one traumatic experience suddenly bring about a phobia. I never used to be afraid of spiders, then I moved somewhere where every autumn the house gets invaded with huge ones, and now I am afraid of all them regardless of size. Ugh, brains right?


man whenever i get near ledges that are high up i just get so disoriented, its like i start to feel dizzy almost. id love to overcome it, but its just the scariest thing ever.


oh my gosh I can’t believe I had to watch this for the second to to realise but I live in Northampton and I can’t believe you’ve abseiled down that tower you amazing human dodie clark


I use to be absurdly scared of the heights. I mean I still am. But nowadays I do not get fucking panic, cries like mad and lies down on the floor. I use to feel like some one is seriously pushing me towards any ledge. Like someone is standing behind me and pushes me with all of his/her force. I mean the panic would be for fucking real. I would have hade a complete mental breakdown. I would be sobbing while hugging a railing or something two meters from the edge.<br>I think I have trained away a bunch of that fear, but it is very much still there.

I use to be absurdly scared of the heights. I mean I still am. But nowadays I do not get fucking panic, cries like mad and lies down on the floor. I use to feel like some one is seriously pushing me towards any ledge. Like someone is standing behind me and pushes me with all of his/her force. I mean the panic would be for fucking real. I would have hade a complete mental breakdown. I would be sobbing while hugging a railing or something two meters from the edge.
I think I have trained away a bunch of that fear, but it is very much still there.


oh dodie you are so brave I know what that's like
I can't even go up four step ladder ..
what's next climbing a mountain
don't know how you did this feat
take care


As someone trained in belaying (that's the person holding you up when you are climbing) you are definitely very very safe with a human belayer. The pulley system makes it so you aren't your entire body weight and if the person belaying is bigger than you then you have no chance of falling that person's full attention is on you. Now if the person belaying is smaller than you it's a little trickier but often they'll have an anchor either weights tied to them or a real person holding on to them. I'm glad you got through I just want you to feel safer in retrospect I guess?


honestly thought this story was going to end with you saying you didn't even do the inside one, but its so impressive that you did!


I went abseiling on a school trip when I was like 12 up a proper rock outside and it was next to a fucking road. I climbed up it ok. And then when it came to abseiling down I got down like two steps, then I slip, I'm about to hit my head and even tho I had a helmet on I reached my hands out to stop because I'm a fucking idiot and I let go of the rope :) I then had my first ever panic attack really really high up with my teachers and the instructors trying to coax me down. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I was just hanging there crying and almost hyperventilating lol


OH, GIRL. I have so much respect for you that you did that at all. I wouldn't have been able to make myself climb over that little rail. I am so afraid of being up high, and the sensation of falling. Nope. Nope. Sorry you had to go through that, Dodie, you were seriously so brave! <b>hug</b>

OH, GIRL. I have so much respect for you that you did that at all. I wouldn't have been able to make myself climb over that little rail. I am so afraid of being up high, and the sensation of falling. Nope. Nope. Sorry you had to go through that, Dodie, you were seriously so brave! *hug*


Interesting to see this is one second below the 10 minute mark. Dodie could have really easily and subtly made it over 10 minutes... Well done for not doing that Dodes! ⭐


She truly looked terrified, oh my. Haha. Way to brave it out, Dodie!


Yeah,  and this is why I can't handle heights well.  I can just about do room height now but damn,  props for handling the 200ft!


my fear of heights is so bad. whenever we would go on residential trips with school there would always be high things and id be like an inch off the ground and be like get me down now. also there was once this ossicle course 6m in the air and everyone else did it i walked to the start and had a panic attack so that was fun


If people ask me if I'm afraid of heights, I'm unsure of what to say. I'm perfectly fine with heights, happy, even, as long as I'm safe. If I feel like there's a chance I could fall, I'm terrified.


I know exactly what you're talking about. If I'm on a ledge more than five feet off from the ground, I start to panic.


Tell you a secret Dodie, I've had an auto-belay fail to catch, a human belay who knows what they're doing is much safer.  Also, that skinny little rope could hold a lorry over that edge. Not giving you gloves however was negligent! I hate heights and I'm so proud of you facing your fear!!


I recently thought I had a fear of heights but I think it's more just fear of falling. anyways I hate rollercoasters cuz the corners feel like I'm gonna fall out


I went to PGL with school in Year 7 and when I did abseiling they didn't give me gloves and I got rope burn nice to know you're supposed to wear gloves thanks dodes


ok but evan looks so cuddly and adorable in that sweateR?? and i love this  video, i was laughing so much despite it all awww


Oh man... my biggest fear is heights. But i also like trying new stuff (sometimes involving heights...). Let's just say, I have cried in a lighthouse before because I wanted to get to the top of it. (Walking up stairs inside it)


Just to let you know Didier, I think that in a belay (the thing holding your rope onto the guys harness) there is something to make sure you cannot fall, like a kind a brake. Xx


I'm afraid of heights as well! Some people think maths is fun to............:) but well done Dodie the show must go on!


So I'm very afraid of heights and we went to this clip and climb place, and I was climbing up these mario pipes and when I got to the top I couldn't jump down because I didn't trust that the machine thing wouldn't malfunction. I was used to my dad holding me as I climbed up regular climbing walls, but this machine was new and it felt when u first jumped off that it wasn't holding u and u were gonna fall to ur death. Also these pipes weren't high enough for u to die if u fell, you would just break a leg or something. Anyway once I finally got down I cried my eyes out in front of my entire class, and I was so embarrassed and yeah. That was when I decided I don't like heights.


When I was 14, I went on this roller coaster ride called the Acrophobia, which, mind you, means "Fear of Heights". Now, I knew that I was afraid of heights but my sister was like, "Oh, it's won't be so bad..." and so we get on the ride, and I think, "Okay! yeah! I can do this! I am perfectly okay." But then, the guy comes around to lock all of our chest protector things to keep us in our seats, and panic just sets in. Once he locked me in, I just started freaking the fuck out. I was like, "I don't want to do this. Kealah, I DONT WANT TO DO THIS." And she was laughing and trying to hold my hand but I was inconsolable. The guy kinda makes the ride move up so that our feet are just dangling a little more and we are no longer on the platform. This is when I just burst into tears. Loud, jesus-save-me-now tears. So, everyone around is laughing at me and I don't even care because I am freaking out. Then, the guy comes onto the speaker and he says, "Aw, little girl with the dark hair, don't cry! It won't be that bad." But then, he takes us to the top very top. It was like a straight shoot right up. You could see the whole park, the highways, houses, everything, from the top. By now, I am just a mess. I'm like screaming, "GET ME OFF!" over and over even though I know that at this point, I'm screwed. So, the guy comes over the speaker and he says, "Don't cry!! It's okay. WE're still going to drop you but..." and I start like wailing as we plummet to what felt like in my mind, our deaths. Oh, my god. People I didn't even know where coming up to me and giving me a hug. So, at the end,my family is asking like, "Did that fix your fear of heights?" and I don't think I answered. I think I just sat down and cried, to be completely honest with you. So, don't worry Dodie, all of people with a phobia of Heights has freaked the FUCK out before and pretty much embarrassed themselves haha


I also have a fear of heights but I do this thing where I forget about it until I am somewhere very high up and I am too scared to get down. It happens so often I'll see a thing and I'll be like hell yea I'm gonna climb the thing I'm not scared and then I'm up and I panic & freeze. It's awful so I feel for u dodie


im sorry dodie but your so adorable  when your distraught lol


I have a pretty intense fear of vomiting but I actually love heights and I don't really know anyone else who does


I'm literally so scared of heights, I don't even like climbing on the top of bunk beds