Is it really as steep as shown in the picture? The trees seem to lean a little bit to the left.
Either way. Hell no.
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On a scale of "1 to NOPE" I rate this an "absolutely the fuck not, what is wrong with you?"
That is one dedicated Shel Silverstein fan.
The good thing about this is that you don't have to do this
Just by looking at this I have a panic attack. Fuck this shit.
Same. Yikes.
When I say I'm not afraid of heights; what I really mean is that I'm not abnormally afraid of heights.
*bonus edit: the legendary Dan Osmond. Died not long after, when a rope snapped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCByLWtM7y4
Misread:
The legendary Dan Osmond who died not long after his rope snapped.
Two meanings. Sharing a goal...
I can imagine myself on that ledge and being the one person where after thousands of years of being perfectly fine, the ledge finally decided to give way and separate from the cliff.
As a Pyr of science you should test your hypothesis and publish your findings
Reminds me of the Via Ferrata in Switzerland. It really gets the blood pumping and gives you a massive adrenaline rush, as your feet are walking on tiny metal bolts driven into a sheer cliff. You can see all the way down to the valley floor from between your toes :3
Yeah, nope. That sounds utterly terrifying.
There's more than one via ferrata.
Imagine sneezing
Fun fact, Alex said in an interview that this is a picture of him having a panic attack. Just shaking and desperately trying to keep calm as adrenaline pours through his system.
Is it this picture or this ledge? I believe his half dome assent was scary because he wasn’t fully prepared. However this specific picture was taken afterwards.
Oh, this guy.
Dude needs to keep his death wish to himself and maybe use some safety gear when he's on camera.
Like, he's good; really good. But being good and being sensible are not exclusive.
Unpopular opinion, I get it. I never understood free climbers, especially when I was playing outside (I was raised gymbo with no wish to be mangled and no illusions about my normie skill, and one of those things makes me need to see a safety line on that kid). Downvote away because apparently that's cool.
I’ve got a hard time glorifying potentially deadly sports. Hang on, I know the next comment is gonna be about something like F1 racing or something, but even F1 goes to great lengths to protect the drivers as much as reasonably possible. It’d be like going back to car racing in open air, no crashworthiness, no helmet, no HALO, etc. to compare to free climbing like this. This guy dies and people will idolize someone playing with suicide. Don’t particularly care if he dies doing it for himself, but the attention he gets could be done without.
I think I get it. As a discipline, as an art. Its a test of nerves as much as skill. He deserves whatever happens to him, but i still respect the hell out of him
Nah, F1 has come a long way from back in the day, and really done a lot for driver safety over the years. I've been following it since shortly after Jules Bianchi died, and the only time I thought "Holy shit, I've just seen someone die on live TV!" was Romain Grosjean's crash, which he ultimately came away from with relatively minor injuries.
I think the motorsport equivalent would be something like the Isle of Man TT, or the motorcycle races at the Macau Grand Prix, where the approach to safety seems to mostly remain "Hey, don't hit any of those stone/concrete barriers while going as fast as humanly possible, but if you do, there's a doctor somewhere around, maybe they'll get to you in time."
Both of those events are, in all honesty, insane that they're allowed to continue as is. The Macau GP seems somewhat better in terms of sheer death count, but despite being interested in motorsport generally, I don't think I could ever make a holiday out of attending either one. I just don't want to go somewhere that has a very real possibility of someone dying an avoidable death because "Ah, fucking health and safety have taken all the excitement out of racing, but we're the real deal and hit stone walls at 200mph when we fuck up."
“Nah”?
“Nah” what?
I don’t think you understood what I wrote or the context it was written.
Didn't know that he was able to have panic attacks at all. Something to do with his amygdala or something. Good to know that he's only human, I was deeply moved after watching him in Free Solo.
What a nice place to relax and have a cool refreshing glass of NOPE.
It’s Alex Honhold. He’s wired differently than most people. Definitely not tethered.
Wired very differently. Free-climbing El Capitan is certified bonkers.
It’s amazing to me that he’s still alive, and lives in Las Vegas with a wife and kids. Like somehow he has a “normal” life on top of his climbing insanity.
Seriously. Doing that shit when you have a kid is nuts to me.
Irresponsible with an inevitable conclusion.
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Imagine standing there and then suddenly that slab under your feet shifts.
Why? Why would you do this?
And to quote Gwen on Galaxy Quest:
Well fuck that!
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Remember kids, it's not the fall that kills you...it's the sudden stop at the end.
Just completely miss the ground and you'll be fine, duh
Today I fell off a ledge into orbit.
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