I guess you could say I'm a little more cautious now than in my youth. I used to climb around the rigging in ships with no thoughts to a harness at all. On one ship we had a challenge called stern to stem where we would go from the stern to the bow along the highest point of rigging on a three masted ship. By the time I was coming down the forestay my hands where bleeding.

And now I won't go up the mast without A proper harness and 2 halyards attached. Funny what 25 years will do to you.