I went on a chairlift in Zakopane in the southern Polish mountains a few years ago and it was similar to that. There was the thinnest, slightly rusty bar that you put across your front once you’re on your way but it was the scariest thing I’ve ever been on. At one point we were in low lying cloud and it was quite cold and it seemed to go on forever. Horrible when it clanked over the pylons as well!
I've been on a couple, tbh the ones I've been on are not very high off the floor in reality... not like the cable car in Where Eagles Dare, just a ski lift without the snow. The scariest thing I've been on was in Yugoslavia, the have a Roman Colloseum in Pula, you can go and stand on the huge blocks around the top... the stairs up were scaffolding poles roped together.. bit concerning but got you up there... once on top the only thing to prevent you falling off was a single thin piece of rope drooped across a few bent round bars, it was still air on the ground but a bloody gale at the top... I ended up sitting down and shuffling as close as I dare get to take a picture of my missus down below... then getting down quickly but trying to look cool.
I think the most scary and dangerous thing in that picture, is the hairstyle and the fake tan, on the one in the blue.
I had a similar experience the first time I went to Chichen Itza in Mexico (2003 I think). At the time you could climb the steps to the top of the pyramid, but the only "safety equipment" was a loose rope wrapped around a few dodgy metal posts. Going up was OK but coming down was a nightmare as the steps are so steep. Soon after they stopped people climbing it after a woman fell down the steps and died. (This picture must have been taken before I went as there doesn't appear to even be the rope there!)
Off topic but I have never seen that film. I read the book years ago but I’m told it’s one of the rare occasions that the film is better than the book.
Amazing that there's all those bullets flying around in these sort of films and its always the Germans who get shot!
And even worse, when somebody is climbing a metal ladder while being shot at, the bullets always hit the ladder. If you want to stay safe in a war or action film, just get your pocket ladder out and you'll be fine.
Reminds me of this: I genuinely think that the overhang at around 2:00 is responsible for a recurring nightmare I still have involving climbing something and then finding myself too paralysed with fear to get down again!
