Emil ist völlig schwindelfrei und balanciert lachend über den schmalen Felsgrat. Emil has no fear of heights at all and balances, laughing, along the narrow rocky ridge.

adjective · C1

schwindelfrei

[ˈʃvɪndl̩fʁaɪ̯]

not afraid of heights, with a head for heights

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Ich bin leider nicht schwindelfrei, deshalb bleibe ich lieber auf breiten Wegen.

Unfortunately I don't have a head for heights, so I prefer to stay on wide paths.
Bist du wirklich schwindelfrei? Auf dem Klettersteig geht es links hundert Meter senkrecht hinunter.

Do you really have a head for heights? On the via ferrata there's a sheer hundred-metre drop on the left.
Für diese Tour muss man absolut schwindelfrei sein, sonst wird der Grat zur Qual.

For this route you have to be completely free of vertigo, otherwise the ridge becomes torture.

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der Schwindelschwindligfrei

In Otti's situations: The friends spend a weekend in the Alps

der Abstieg die Alm alpin atemberaubend der Berg die Berghütte besteigen das Gebirge das Geröll das Gewitter der Gipfel das Gipfelkreuz

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