I have quite a bad fear of heights which is part of why I took up rock climbing (nice to hear you're a fellow climber Abhijit). I wanted to face the fear in the hopes that I'd overcome it. The funny thing is, I'm now pretty comfortable climbing because I'm roped in but I still get jittery walking along high paths. We were climbing up near Snowdon (not on the actual mountain but some of the crags that surround it) a month or so back and climb was fine. But when I got to the top and had to walk back down the paths I had to crawl on my hands and knees at times because I just couldn't bring myself to stand up. Meanwhile all my mates were blithely skipping along and making me look stupid. And some of them were GIRLS! Oh, the humiliation.

Oh, does a fear of rejection count?