I squarely fit into the group of people who has always been afraid of heights. Even as a teenager when I was helping my dad paint the outside of a house I would only go on the first/lowest board of the scaffolding, not any higher. And ladders that are bending and moving while you climb up on them - oh ghee - hate it.

That live oak is beautiful, they are gorgeous looking trees. And it is over 700 years old?! Did you have it tested, poked, somehow?