Seems to be very much an Orthodox thing. Check out the Meteora monastery for example ... monks have been known to fall to their death traversing the high paths in bad weather.
There was also a Byzantine holy man who spent the majority of his adult life living on top of a column. I guess you need a head for heights to join the Orthodox church, which will rule me out - I get dizzy on a ladder.
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