Biography: Men Who Built the Bridge. It took much more than a clever engineer and a relentless promoter to build the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge effort enlisted men by the hundreds to do the filthy, back-breaking, and routinely dangerous labor.
batophobia batÂ·oÂ·phoÂ·biÂ·a (bÄt'É-fÅ'bÄ-É) n. An abnormal fear of being near an object of great height, such as a skyscraper or mountain.
Acrophobia (from Greek, meaning summit) is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort that share both similar etiology and options for treatment.