I’m with you, I’ve always hated heights.
I was at the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago and there was a teenage boy showing off by posing on the edge of a cliff (beyond the barrier). A ranger came up and told him to get off because she didn’t want to have to go down to pick up his body because it was four hours down and six hours up. He refused and she reminded him that she was armed and she would arrest him unless he was off immediately. He got off.
But kids really don’t think. Young people believe they are immortal. While that’s one of the good things about being young, sometimes it makes you ignore reasonable limitations. But youth is all about that.
Prayers for these two girls and their families.
Underdeveloped prefrontal cortex.