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