I've been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years - but I'm terrified of heights | Ben Walter

Our society emphasises the value of conquering and overcoming your fears - but I can live with the idea of not climbing every mountainEarlier this year, I finally climbed Mount Anne. This has taken an unlikely amount of time - I've been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years, but had never been up one of the island's signature summits.A "peak bagging" hobby is great fun, and takes you out to all sorts of interesting places. Some Tasmanians set themselves to climb the Abels, a list of 158 mountains that are at least 1100m high, but the list compiled by the Hobart Walking Club, the one I follow, is far more ridiculous - a total of 481 summits to find your way up. A list that huge seems bigger than most of them. Continue reading...