Even at the peak of your balance and focus (your finely honed stability), take enough gusts, and you will look down.
It is not looking around that leads to dismay, but rather the clarity of unfocused observation that leads to doubt. Widening your view recognizes the precarious fragility of our position.
Recognition should invoke a fight-or-flight response, but often, we freeze wide-eyed when our ignorance is made plain, preventing us from returning to the stable, narrow focus that served us so well.