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Hayley Ashburn balances on a tightrope buffeted by winter winds

Hayley Ashburn narrates this short but intense film on fear, overlaid on heart-stopping footage of her highlining on a line 2800 meters up, between Italy’s snow-dusted Torri del Vajolet in winter, the first person ever to do so. Recognize the quote?

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

— Litany against fear from the Bene Gesserit in Dune.

Highlining 2800m in winter (Vimeo / Stian Smestad)

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