I stay away from cliff edges, unless there is a fence to stand behind.
The Grand Canyon has barriers to keep visitors from getting dangerously close to the edge. Which of course some ignore and annually there’s 2-3 deaths a year.
My fraternity brothers and I would sit on the edges of the Missouri River bluffs at Easley. One of them would talk about what it be like to go off the edge. He really made me nervous because he seemed so serious.
When I was young, I would never walk up to a cliff edge, but would kind of crab walk on all fours / sidle up to the edge.
I not only get queasy standing near a precipice, I get queasy looking at pictures of other people standing near a precipice.
I visited the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland on a tour bus back in 2006. The first thing they told us was to stay behind the fences because plenty of people who ventured beyond them to the cliff edge, ended up losing their lives. It's not just the winds, but the edge is unstable. I didn't wander over to where the fences were, but stayed behind the concrete wall to get safe pictures. On the day we were there, I photographed, from a distance, people who had climbed over the fence, and were at the cliff edge. I've always been the cautious type, and my fear of heights has helped me remain that way. I couldn't even stand going on the Ferris wheel, or the roller coaster.
Someone posted this online: "Overall, 66 deaths occurred on or at the base of the Cliffs of Moher during the period 1993 through August 2017. In total, 18 (27.3%) of the victims were international visitors to Ireland, including 11 males (61.1%). The mean age of travellers ( n = 17) was 34.2 years."