Peter Jackson
A single wooden pole rose vertically to a height of around 30 feet. At the top was a simple flat platform with no handrail, and standing on top of that…was me.
It was day three of Focus, a Christian Science camp in the UK, and today I had decided to throw caution to the wind and sign up for the most extreme activity on the list—the trapeze. The climb up to the summit had been achieved via a series of wooden pegs sticking out from the pole, and now I stood gazing upwards and outwards at a horizontal bar hanging from two ropes. My fellow trapeze participants watched intently from below. The giant pole swayed gently in the wind.
