Jaap van Engelenburg returned to the Dom Tower after a difficult year: ‘I couldn’t get out of bed’

Jaap van Engelenburg returned to the Dom Tower after a

“I’ll tell you that I was afraid of heights.” Van Engelenburg is now at the dial. The wind is blowing hard, but he is standing in a safe place looking over the city with a smile. “When I was a little boy, my father took me into the tower. I sat on top of the stairs here. Howling, howling.” That fear of heights is gone. “Habituation,” he says.

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