The Greatest Scenes of All Time on Instagram: "Cliffhanger was released on this day in 1993 🏔️ Ironically, Stallone has a fear of heights, and he later admitted he struggled during filming and used a double for many of the actual climbing shots. Many of the film’s climbing scenes were done with practical effects and real stunts, not CGI. Aerial stuntman Simon Crane performed the famous plane-to-plane transfer at 15,000 feet without a safety harness, earning $1 million—at the time, the most expe