Presumably, many of you have at some point stood on a skyscraper’s observation deck and marvelled at how very long is the “drop” to the streets below.
From the Sydney Tower’s “Eye”, it is 250 metres.
From the Melbourne Edge’s “Skydeck”, it is nearly 300 metres.
The Empire State Building’s top floor sits 373 metres above Manhattan’s streets.
This post’s featured image was taken from the summit of the Jenner (1874 metres ASL), looking down to the Königssee; the vertical “drop” to that lake’s surface exceeds the aforementioned “drops”, respectively, by more than five times, more than four times, and more than three times.