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Sat 12 Dec 2009Look before you leap
Diving off platforms, climbing on ropes, hiking up one of Scotland’s highest peaks: AMY LAUGHINGHOUSEconfronts her fears by pushing herself to the limit at Landmark Forest Adventure Park – and is left feeling on top of the world
I’M CRINGING on the edge of a tiny wooden platform less than a metre square, contemplating a leap from the equivalent of a three-storey building. I must be insane. In theory, the cable that a fresh-faced young lad strapped to my harness will allow me to make a controlled but nonetheless stomach-churning descent into the abyss.
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