Wild Ideas Worth Living · Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Ye describes highlining, a more extreme form of slacklining done hundreds of feet in the air, as a significant mental battle. She explains the process of harnessing in and the intense psychological challenge of overcoming the fear of heights.
“With highlining, now you're hundreds if not thousands of feet up in the air. Everything's below you, everything's above you, and everything's to the side of you. It's a mental battle.”
“You really have to like learn to trust yourself in these ways, right? Because to walk you through it, you harness in, you tie in, you get on the line and you scoot out a little bit.”
“No matter how many times you've done it in the past, right? It's just like a normal human reaction to being hundreds if not thousands of feet in the air.”