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.
The fear of falling, also referred to as basophobia, is a natural fear and is typical of most humans and mammals, in varying degrees of extremity. It differs from acrophobia, although the two fears are closely related. The fear of falling encompasses the anxieties accompanying the sensation and the possibly dangerous effects of falling, as opposed to the heights themselves. Those who have little fear of falling may be said to have a head for heights. Basophobia is sometimes associated with astas