Up among the swaying treetops in the jungles of Thailand's Krabi province, tourists are screaming, shrieking and pleading. Because no one wants to spiral into a freefall and splatter onto the rock-strewn jungle floor below, of course.
Others are fiendishly laughing, yelping with joy or silently bug-eyed with frenzied focus, desperately hoping their nylon ropes will keep them attached to steel "zip lines" strung from tree to tree, around 20 meters above the ground.
"I thought at some point I was going to cry. Not die, but cry," says Jo Waisel, a 31-year-old office manager from Tunbridge Wells, England.
"For me, it was a bit too much, a bit too intense. The zip wire bits were great, but some of the other ones were too challenging for me. Too hard. Too much like pushing yourself to the edge of what you are used to doing," she says.
Her husband, Gadi Waisel, 34, feels the opposite.
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