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What's the highest you've ever been above ground level?

(it's probably a tower or tall building)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 6:45 a.m. | #

SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 6:50 a.m. | #

Main Tower, Frankfurt, Germany (200m)

AG | 27.01.21 - 7:20 a.m. | #

Tour Montparnasse, Paris (200m)

Mel | 27.01.21 - 7:23 a.m. | #

SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m)

Greg | 27.01.21 - 7:27 a.m. | #

350.2m, Viewing platform on The Stratosphere, Las Vegas

MartinO'Holcombe | 27.01.21 - 7:32 a.m. | #

Observation deck, Burj Khalifa (556m)

Peter of London | 27.01.21 - 7:33 a.m. | #

Central Plaza of Hong Kong, the structure is 374m but I think the top floor is only 350m or so.

Patrickov | 27.01.21 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Nothing remarkable enough to look up. Probably when I worked on the 12th floor of Telstar house near Paddington (until the fire).

Putters | 27.01.21 - 7:45 a.m. | #

276m, Eiffel Tower

mushroomcounter | 27.01.21 - 7:46 a.m. | #

SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m)

Kevin | 27.01.21 - 7:48 a.m. | #

Also 276 m, Eiffel Tower

Jonathan | 27.01.21 - 7:50 a.m. | #

420m, external observation deck on the South Tower of original World Trade Centre NYC in 1991

Richard | 27.01.21 - 7:54 a.m. | #

Skywalk, Grand Canyon. Arguably around 1100m. Or 250m, depending on how close you're measuring the ground level.

Matthew | 27.01.21 - 7:55 a.m. | #

Another vote for SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m). Stood at the bottom of the Burj Khalifa, and got told off by security, but the price tag didn't seem worth it at the time - a decision I'm now slightly regretting!

Will | 27.01.21 - 7:56 a.m. | #

Roof of the old World Trade Center, which I’ve got here at 415m - 3m above the observation deck of the Sears Tower in Chicago (now the Willis Tower) - a taller building, but with an enclosed viewing deck at 412m.

Philip | 27.01.21 - 8:01 a.m. | #

I think 450m at the Tokyo Skytree.

Alan | 27.01.21 - 8:07 a.m. | #

CN tower Toronto

Michael | 27.01.21 - 8:11 a.m. | #

447m, Skypod, CN tower.

Jim | 27.01.21 - 8:11 a.m. | #

Also 276m, Eiffel Tower

Sally | 27.01.21 - 8:13 a.m. | #

Observation Deck of Willis Tower, Chicago (what used to be called the Sears Tower) 412 metres

Friar Sven | 27.01.21 - 8:17 a.m. | #

Eiffel Tower

Amanda | 27.01.21 - 8:20 a.m. | #

The Empire State Building

John | 27.01.21 - 8:22 a.m. | #

415m, same as Philip, World Trade Center, New York, 1999.

Waterhouse | 27.01.21 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi (300m)

Jack | 27.01.21 - 8:29 a.m. | #

SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m)

(thanks for doing the hard research work for me!)

Mark | 27.01.21 - 8:34 a.m. | #

Sears tower, as per above aparantly 412 metres

Thorum | 27.01.21 - 8:35 a.m. | #

Shanghai Tower last year. There is something amazing about being so high with big clear windows and time to look around.

peter | 27.01.21 - 8:37 a.m. | #

474m, Shanghai World Financial Center (the Shanghai Tower observation deck wasn't completed when I was there).

Steve | 27.01.21 - 8:39 a.m. | #

Observation deck at the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, Chicago - 412m

Baldassaro | 27.01.21 - 8:43 a.m. | #

Sears Tower - Chicago - 412m

Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 27.01.21 - 8:44 a.m. | #

CN Tower, Toronto

Sara | 27.01.21 - 8:53 a.m. | #

CN Tower, 447m, snap

davews | 27.01.21 - 8:59 a.m. | #

On the rooftop observation deck of the World Trade Centre, NY City. Or the Eureka Tower, Melbourne in Aus.

Frank F | 27.01.21 - 9:00 a.m. | #

Empire State Building 102nd floor. 381 metres it says here.

Lorenzo | 27.01.21 - 9:00 a.m. | #

Windows on the World restaurant on the 106th floor of the original WTC in NY - 400m

ChrisW | 27.01.21 - 9:07 a.m. | #

somewhere up the Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumper, topping out at 451.9m apparently, but my legs gave way far below that.

PJS | 27.01.21 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Tokyo Skytree - upper observation deck is 450m above ground

David | 27.01.21 - 9:09 a.m. | #

Sagrada Familia church Barcelona. I still have nightmares about the open walkway between two of the towers, which I crossed on hands and knees because I was so dizzy I couldn't stand up.

Wole | 27.01.21 - 9:14 a.m. | #

I've been to the CN Tower, but only to the main observation deck, so I guess that makes mine the Willis Tower in Chicago at 412m. Incidentally there are no bigger hills, so that is also the highest point above sea level in Illinois.

Michael Churchill | 27.01.21 - 9:15 a.m. | #

Like DG, it's the SkyPod in Toronto (my hometown) at 447m.

James | 27.01.21 - 9:18 a.m. | #

CN Tower

Neesi | 27.01.21 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Original World Trade Center (Twin Towers), Manhattan 417m

Johnny Topaz | 27.01.21 - 9:21 a.m. | #

Also the viewing Deck on the Stratosphere Las Vegas

NickW | 27.01.21 - 9:21 a.m. | #

417 m - World Trade Center in New York (in July 2001...)

Jochem | 27.01.21 - 9:27 a.m. | #

276m, Eiffel Tower

Pete_LL | 27.01.21 - 9:27 a.m. | #

CN Tower Toronto

Dave B | 27.01.21 - 9:27 a.m. | #

I've been to a business meeting in the Shard, but it was only about half way up, so either the Walkie Talkie (160m) or the (then) Post Office Tower (177m) - the latter is taller but the observation deck was not at the very top.

timbo | 27.01.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #

351 m. Top Pearl platform in the Pearl Tower in Shanghai, not long after it was built in the 1990s. Beautiful building.

Herbof | 27.01.21 - 9:29 a.m. | #

SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m

The Banbury Man | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:37 a.m. | #

I've been up the Burj Khalifa, but when I was there the previous observation deck "only" went up to 452m...

Mikey C | 27.01.21 - 9:49 a.m. | #

Another vote for NY Old World Trade Centre, one of the twin towers, 415m

commonliner | 27.01.21 - 9:53 a.m. | #

I think it's the Eiffel Tower.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:54 a.m. | #

Another CN Tower Toronto

scrumpy | 27.01.21 - 10:08 a.m. | #

120, Fenchurch St.

the other eric | 27.01.21 - 10:09 a.m. | #

Sky Pod, CN Tower.

Cornish Cockney | 27.01.21 - 10:11 a.m. | #

World Trade Center

Chris K | 27.01.21 - 10:13 a.m. | #

Observation deck, Burj Khalifa (556m)

TomH | 27.01.21 - 10:15 a.m. | #

The top floor of the Eureka Tower Melbourne, 297m

Dave | 27.01.21 - 10:16 a.m. | #

Another Eiffel Tower, 276m

Alex | 27.01.21 - 10:16 a.m. | #

Shard viewing deck.

stevekeiretsu | 27.01.21 - 10:19 a.m. | #

320m, the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, New York

the wub | 27.01.21 - 10:24 a.m. | #

Empire State Building, New York - observation deck at 381m (or 1,250 feet).

Alan S | 27.01.21 - 10:25 a.m. | #

I was with DG in the CN Tower.

DGD | 27.01.21 - 10:26 a.m. | #

The 86th Floor observation deck of the Empire State building (320m) just pips the one in the John Hancock Centre in Chicago (310m).

CJS | 27.01.21 - 10:26 a.m. | #

450m, Skyline Queenstown NZ. But I think that is cheating, becuase you aren;t really ever that high above the ground, so 86th Floor observation deck of the Empire State building (320m)

Nameless 14 | 27.01.21 - 10:30 a.m. | #

Ditto: SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m)

Mike | 27.01.21 - 10:32 a.m. | #

CNN Tower 421 metres

JOHN LISSAMAN | 27.01.21 - 10:34 a.m. | #

415 metres, World Trade Centre rooftop observation deck, New York, 1979.

JonathanC | 27.01.21 - 10:38 a.m. | #

Empire State Building, now at 381m but I suspect the viewing platform was a bit lower when I visited in the 90's.

Colin Lennon | 27.01.21 - 10:39 a.m. | #

202m
Tokyo municipal government building.

PeterB | 27.01.21 - 10:40 a.m. | #

450m in the Tokyo Skytree back in 2016. The weather was awful and we couldn't see anything from the top.

Neil Scotter | 27.01.21 - 11:16 a.m. | #

As you DG, SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto 447m

Mike | 27.01.21 - 11:33 a.m. | #

Shard viewing deck

H SE18 | 27.01.21 - 11:36 a.m. | #

I'm with the Eiffel Tower at 276m as well

Caroline | 27.01.21 - 11:37 a.m. | #

Shanghai Tower observation deck, 560m

James | 27.01.21 - 11:38 a.m. | #

World Trade Centre - New York in 1993.

Dave | 27.01.21 - 12:10 p.m. | #

Also Shanghai Tower Observation deck 560 m

Pinnerite | 27.01.21 - 12:10 p.m. | #

Kaknäs Tower in Stockholm. 155 m.

Chrisfromsweden | 27.01.21 - 12:42 p.m. | #

Eiffel tower, surprisingly. I figured some other buildings I'd been up would've been higher.

Gunnersaurus | 27.01.21 - 12:50 p.m. | #

+1 for Eiffel Tower, 276m

miker | 27.01.21 - 1:14 p.m. | #

Shanghai World Trade Centre Observation deck - 474m

(Like others I've been too the Burj Khalifa, and went up as far as the 'world's tallest restaurant' (442m) for cream tea, which is better value for money but not very useful for this post...)

Chris | 27.01.21 - 1:38 p.m. | #

Viewing platform, Stratosphere, Las Vegas. About 270m?

Bernard | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 2:06 p.m. | #

Observation deck of the Old World Trade Centre South Tower which I make 417m (several other ideas on that above)

Chris | 27.01.21 - 2:16 p.m. | #

Sears Tower (as it was then) - 413m
or World Trade Center (which other have listed at 415m)
Have been up the CN Tower but not sure if I went beyond 346m

martin in canada | 27.01.21 - 2:26 p.m. | #

Main Tower in Frankfurt on my last trip abroad in 2019 - 200m. I thought I might be the only one but there's at least one other on here

Anders | 27.01.21 - 3:17 p.m. | #

It would definitely be the World Trade Center in 2000, but I can't remember which tower, so it's either 400m or 420m.

martin | 27.01.21 - 3:40 p.m. | #

SkyPod, CN Tower, Toronto (447m)

Chz | 27.01.21 - 3:49 p.m. | #

412m - another one for the Sears (now Willis) tower.

Ken | 27.01.21 - 4:02 p.m. | #

Eiffel tower 276m

EH | 27.01.21 - 5:39 p.m. | #

Burn Khalifa, 556m

Ken | 27.01.21 - 7:11 p.m. | #

Eiffel tower 276m as well

Al__S | 27.01.21 - 7:25 p.m. | #

The Shard viewing deck, 208m.

Sprout Eater | 27.01.21 - 7:56 p.m. | #

I was at the old World Trade Center outside deck one time @ 420 m.

Andrew | 27.01.21 - 8:21 p.m. | #

Another vote for the CN Tower, so 447m

Wayne | 27.01.21 - 9:02 p.m. | #

Taipei 101. Long time ago (2008)

Moritz | 27.01.21 - 9:20 p.m. | #

The former world trade centre, 415m.

David C | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 9:31 p.m. | #

Another for the Sears Tower in Chicago

2d53 | Homepage | 27.01.21 - 10:21 p.m. | #

Eiffel Tower for me, so 276 metres.

Kirsty | 27.01.21 - 10:55 p.m. | #

450m, the upper observation deck on the Tokyo Skytree.

Robert | 28.01.21 - 4:17 a.m. | #

I would have guessed the TV Tower in Berlin but I've learnt from this post that the answer is the Shard.

Mark | 28.01.21 - 8:40 a.m. | #

One World Trade Center Observation deck 417m

James | 29.01.21 - 5:59 a.m. | #











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