Cape Town - If you've ever gone zip lining, you will probably be quite familiar with the irrational fear that an essential carabiner will unclip itself and you will be dropped into the abyss or, if you're lucky, left to cling on for dear life.
But it's such an irrational fear, right?
Wrong!
At least if this video of a zip lining adventure Thailand gone epically wrong is anything to go by.
WATCH: Zip line fail leaves man clinging on for dear life
The scary selfie footage shows a pair of tourists setting off from the first platform in tandem, when suddenly the one - a man - drops away out of site. For the next few seconds all you hear is the woman - who is luckily still attached to the line - screaming her lungs out.
The camera angle finally shifts to show the man clinging to a rope dangling from his partner's harness. She screams: "Hold on Jed!"
Which Jed proceeds to do, because, let's just face it, the other option is pretty dismal.
As they approach the next platform they are finally assisted by a guide... and then another... who finally manage to reel Jed in.
Terrifying. Just terrifying!
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