To give you an idea of how high up the slide will really be, here is a segment of a TV program produced by the late Huell Howser for the local Los Angeles PBS station in 1994; Huell actually was allowed to go to the very highest accessible point on the tower and then was lowered over the side in a scaffolding used by the window washers:
@Neal: I have the very same reaction to heights; a psychologist I used to work with told me the "want to jump" reaction is very likely a by-product/side-effect of vertigo; when we feel the discomfort we feel, it triggers a sort of "flight or fight" response and, given the shortest distance is down and the quickest means of ending the discomfort is to jump, we feel the inclination to do so; fortunately, reason overrules instinct and we don't take "the easy way out"...
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