We all feel it. Fear is the body's fire alarm. How we respond when things hot up is the issue. Those who fight soon regard fear as a friend that measures achievement by outlining physical and mental limits. For others, fear is the foe that stands in the way of their dreams.
Climbers talk about fear.
You either give up climbing then and there, or you look your fear in the face and learn to embrace it by developing your mental toughness. A man whose feats have entertained National Geographic readers and blown the minds of South African climbers when he visited this country last year is a climber by the name of Todd Skinner. It's just as simple as that, nothing's impossible. It brings reality. Speak to any number of other achievers in this sphere of adventure sports and you begin to realise that they've thought quite a lot about this 'F-factor'.