it's funny fear
if I put a wide plank on a carpet floor and asked you to walk along it, most would have no issues. Put it 1000ft in the air and suddenly many are teetering on jelly legs. The safest way to walk down or across a steep slope is keep your body vertical, so your weight is straight down for maximum grip. But fear makes people want to lean in to the slope so they don't topple downwards, but leaning increases the chance of them slipping, and you're not balanced.
So taking people mountaineering (and it's more walks like above, I'm not doing the north face of the Eiger), part of it is more teaching them to deal with and ignore these paralysing fears, which you do by exposing them gradually and building confidence, hopefully so you don't get scenes like this poor bugger
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