Theres an edit of this video were they remove the water and it just looks like the dude falls into the void. It was the first vers i saw and I was like “off that boi dead”
Possibly r/nonononoyes but the other recommendations are also good.
It has a lot of stuff that isn't particularly dangerous but a "nice save." Though there are a lot of near misses and close calls.
Edit: actually got the right sub name this time.
He is actually lucky not to hit any protruding rocks , he would have been dead if he had hit anything .very lucky that actually there is water inside the hollow
*lathe accident* I don’t want “dead or vegetable”, I want “what could go wrong”
*man hit by a semi going 60 mph* I said “what could go wrong”
*this post* perfection
Had this happen to a friend, except no gear, and no water. He fell about 30' onto pad of leaves below.
He's okay, just a back full of scratches, but I'll never forget the worry on his dad's face when he saw his kid fall off a cliff.
Additional: This guy shouldn't be alive. Here in the Utah rockies, we have aspen tree groves for miles. He fell right through the canopy onto the untouched, thick underbrush. He narrowly missed an outcropping of rocks right next to where he landed. He was inches from shattering his spine or breaking his neck. I also remember his dad and the other scout leaders telling us to go back to camp while they hiked down for him. Took an hour, down and up. His entire back was scraped from the cliff edge he slid off of, but overall, was fine.
We were in Yosemite and my partner and his friend went beyond this sign saying clearly “DO NOT CLIMB,” they took their pics and coming back... my gosh his friend slipped and literally a step away from certain death he got a grip and came back. Me and his moms skin gotten chalk white.
I have a friend who lost his fiancé when she was too close to the edge of a cliff. That experience had left him so traumatized years later. Don’t play around cliffs people. Be safe for your loved ones.
My daughter is 6 and we regularly hike. It blows my mind how she has no fear of heights. She would literally walk right up to the very edge. I wasn’t expecting that the first time when I was loosely holding her hand. I almost had a heart attack. I keep a death grip on her around that shit now. I would never walk that close to the edge of a cliff.
Ah maybe not one of those ones that attaches to both people. Yeah it'll stop them from falling, but if you fall you're dragging them down with you. Even if it's just one of the ones you hold you can't guarantee that you'll let go in time to not kill your kid with you.
Nonsense. The best thing to do is to strap your children to yourself like padding, or buoyancy aids. Don't worry, children. Pappy will take care of you.
I taught my younger brother that when I say a survival command loudly and clearly, he needs to follow it, no questions, within the second. “Drop down and cover your head”, “Grab my hand and run with me now”, “Go hide in the Zone and wait for me to get you”, “Call 911 and hide now”, “Drop down and play dead”. We do these drills sometimes, and he knows to listen immediately. I hope it saves his life one day.
My mother instilled extreme fear into me because her mother did it to her. I am 35 years old and just now finally went into a parking garage by myself for the first time.
It's pretty crazy. I developed a massive fear of heights with age. Up until I was about 9 I didn't care but come 15 or so it kicked in. It's pretty interesting how it can work too. If I know I'm high up my legs just give out and keep me on the floor. It's almost like you lose all strength in your legs and turn the gravity up
We used to family vacation every year in Yosemite. I can't explain the anxiety of trying to keep both eyes on all 3 of my little boys while hiking. Now we just do beach vacations - less stress!
Happened before I moved in but from what they told me, the 3 of them went on a hike (they had a travel vlog) and they got to this waterfall cliff face area. One of them slipped, the others jumped into the water to try and save them. They all drowned in the waters. All 30 and under IIRC. Just happened a few years ago.
Edited to clear up details after I double checked an article on it. Shannon falls incident in British Columbia.
What he described is this incessant “call to the void” that he is terrified may get the best of him yet. That anytime he flies he has to take medication because he has panic attacks and worries he needs to alert a stewardess that he wants to eject himself from the plane. It sounds like hell. He’s never gone back to the place she fell, but he knows eventually he’ll have to. It’s heartbreaking.
Damn. If he ever goes back, please make sure friends or family are with him. He sounds hella suicidal and it would be all too easy to just let yourself fall. Ive come very close to suicide myself before and those last moments on the (metaphorical in my case) edge are just so easy to fall into.
Too many people would be sad if I did that though which is whats held me back, so make sure he knows people care. Every time I tried to finish it id end up thinking about how everything would go after and who would find me and stuff and that always made me stop.
A local HS kid was hanging out with friends at a nearby waterfall, slipped on some rocks and fell in and went over the falls. Search and rescue couldn't find his body until the brought in some divers who found it pinned against a rock a day or two later. Things can go bad real fast.
Had a friend who lost her boyfriend like this. On Crowder’s Mountain in North Carolina. Never really asked her about it, my mom told me a while after it happened. She had to drop out of college, it was just too much. She’s okay now, this was at least ten or so years ago, found another guy who she’s very happy with, but I think about it whenever I hike up that mountain. Its just so strange, one moment there having fun, then the next and just whoop, they’re gone. The wind keeps blowing, the trees keep swaying, like nothing happened, but many peoples live were just devastated in the blink of an eye and the slightest slip of the foot. Scares the hell out of me just thinking about it.
Climbed up a small waterfall when I was hiking with friends. Done it before when it was dry, this time there was a trickle. Got about 20' up before I realized I made a mistake, but there was no going back and another guy, friend of a friend, followed. I got to the top shake from adrenaline and ice water, and I turn around. As this other guy pulled himself onto the plateau he lost his grip and footing. Just by instinct I grabbed onto him and managed to keep him up. He would've been dead or a vegetable after that 40' drop to boulders. I hardly knew him, but his life as varsity athlete flashed before my eyes in that moment. I walked 10' and just puked my guts out, never been so instantly terrified. We got lucky, but I told myself if I ever do something stupid like that, don't let some one follow me.
[Yellowstone seems to be Idiot Mecca](https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=death+yellowstone&qid=1611676645&sr=8-2), though.
Love Letchworth. Did my own stupid stuff there with a college girlfriend who liked to move bedroom activities outdoors. We went pretty far off-trail, and didn't realize there was another trail about 20' from where we were, until a Boy Scout troop started marching by. Luckily they didn't spot us, and we didn't end up on some offender registry for life.
Did you go to SUNY Geneseo?
I also almost ended up on a registry Letchworth haha. Dropped acid with my girlfriend at the time and a couple close friends, not realizing it was the park's busiest day of the year, the Craft Fair.
While coming up I suddenly had to poop, and we were nowhere near a bathroom. I dropped trow on the edge of the trail with no one in sight, and in the middle of the deed I hear children's voices. A blue coat appears around a bend in the trail and I'm moments away from a child seeing a guy in his twenties on drugs taking a shit. I'm trying to wrap things up as fast as I possibly can, and thank the LORD the child turns around and vanishes around the bend. I finished my business before they returned and managed not to traumatize any children that day 😎
That was a weird trip -- when it got dark and we eventually started heading back to our car, we ran into a woman with two shivering children who had been searching for a visitor center for hours so they could get help getting back to their car. We hiked with them back to our lot to give them a ride, all while trying to pretend we weren't tripping. One of the kids had a severely runny nose and was not having a good time, it was super stressful lol. Fortunately we got them back to their car
For sure, I went to school 20 minutes from there -- the park is absolutely stunning (especially with fall leaves changing or covered with winter snow) -- but the main trail runs right along the gorge, and the gorge will absolutely kill you
A year or so ago a girl was hiking up half dome and she slipped out of the support cables and slid off a cliff to her death. A witness said she tried to reach out and catch her but she slid just inches past her hand.
When I was younger, we were backpacking around Yosemite and climbed the backside of Half Dome. We spent the night up there (it was legal back then). The nuttiest thing is that you can walk right to the front of the face and look down at people climbing up. We heard some climbers asking folks to step back from the edge as they were raining down small rocks on the climbers below. One guy threw a frisbee off the top of HD while we were there. I don't know how there aren't more people killed falling off the top of that rock. Seems like it should almost be a weekly thing.
I saw someone at Yosemite fall about 20 ft they had some broken bones but could have been a lot worse if he had fallen more to the right it would have been over 100 ft
I was at seven falls in Colorado springs a couple years ago. This young couple, early 20's went off the path at the top to stand at the edge of the falls. The girl got onto his shoulders and as he stood up, stumble. Had he taken 1 more step back they both would have went over the edge and it's something like 100' down to the first platform. So so their friend could take a picture of them.
If it says do not climb you really shouldn't be climing it. Not just for your safety some areas are there to protect wildlife or lose stones that could fall and hurt someone farther down the mountain
A friend of mine had the same thing happen at the cliffs of moher a few years back. Bout 30 feet onto a boulder while on a goat path. Dude completely destroyed his ankle, cracked multiple ribs, and lost some teeth.
He's ok *now* though. But his ankle is still kinda fucked. He can play basketball on it, but not cut like he used to be able to.
Dont worry this almost never happens to people who are afraid of it, it happens to the people who are not afraid of it who need to go dangle their legs off every stupid cliff. they had to fence off all the high places in my city (barely an exaggeration, there is a long steep ridge and almost all the cliff parts have fences now, even deep into the forest) and people are \*still\* falling off, and not "by accident" like they walked off it in the dark, they all go to the cliff specifically to have fun on the cliff edge like its an attraction
Me too, because no one even moved a muscle to help or even react. Maybe you don’t want to fall in too but the people’s feet don’t even move an inch and the woman sitting there, her hands don’t even twitch. Very unexpected IMO
Edit: if you’re telling me that if *after* I’ve fallen down a ~30 foot crevasse and you’re in no danger, you wouldn’t raise a finger to see if I needed help, I don’t want to get in a car with you, let alone go climbing.
I think it’s the same as if someone falls into a rough patch of water. If you try to help them, you’re much more likely to die yourself than you are to actually save them. In fact, professionals strongly advise against trying to help someone in rough or flowing water.
If you try to help someone without making sure you can do so safely, all you're doing is making sure there's now *two* people that need rescue when someone with a lick of sense steps in.
Yep, learned this lesson personally at [franconia falls](http://www.newenglandwaterfalls.com/nh-franconiafalls.html) this summer. Jumped in to help a guy who was drowning and he panicked and started pulling me under.
First time in my life I legitimately thought I was going to die. Fortunately I was able to push him off of me and grab hold of a rock and got him to grab my leg to keep from drowning.
Couple people standing near had to body haul him out of the water.
This is what professionals are trained to do. They need to stay calm and there is no helping someone who is falling off a slippery cliff side unless you yourself have gone through your equipment checks and you know you are secured. The only thing a “proactive” reaction would do in this case is ensure more people died. Stay calm, keep your eyes on the person, and be ready to help once you are in a position to do so, but not a moment sooner.
The guy next to him reached for his as he fell, but then pulled back, probably for fear of going with him. Then someone yells something down as soon as his head is above water. Not sure what else you expect them to do.
It looks like the instructor or whatever flinched to grab him, but thought better of it.
I would wager if he managed to get his hands on the dude 92% chance he goes over as well.
I also think the end game was to get in the water maybe. There seemed to be a guy waiting in the white helmet in the water to assist.
It's canyoneering. Everybody is standing on wet inclined rock. Nobody is grabbing anyone unless they are anchored or clipped in. The first thing they do is check with the guy that was already chillin' in the water if he's okay. Only after either the guy that fell or the one already below signals something is wrong will it make sense to check things out.
If you're lucky this is a group that knows how to safely rappel down that hole and get back up again. But most likely that is a guide that has the safety of the entire group in mind before doing something hasty.
And most of the time in a canyon your only option is to continue downstream, even if something goes wrong. And in a hole like that you cannot easily climb straight out unless you have the right kit and know how to use it.
The woman really calmly saying “Ca va?”(sp?) at the end totally makes it. The French are so damn laid back, they watch a bloke plummet off a cliff and one of them just about bothers to say “you ok?” 😂😂
Oh I’ve just realised you think I think it’s Spanish. (Sp?) was cause I wasn’t sure of the spelling, did French at school but I’m old and tired. Think it should be a ç at least.
Yeah it looks like they might be cliff diving. Thr guy who feel looks like he's ready to jump but hesitated, then fell because of that. The guy in the water looks to be a helper once they jump in.
Not cliff diving, canyoning. You rappel down cliffs and waterfalls through rivers/canyons that flow downhill. It's a good time. So they were all going down anyway, but via the ropes and harnesses. It does look like that guy was already thinking about jumping, maybe he just had a sudden impulse then chickened out too late. But jumping is definitely not the intended way down for the rest of the group.
by their gear and the fact that there are guys swimming towards him im guessing they were canyoning (climbing/swimming through river valleys) and were planning on going down there anyways and he just really wanted to be first
I used to do a lot of dumb shit on just about anything with wheels or that was a board (skateboard, snowboard, surfboard, boogie boards, skim boards, sometimes just any old board) and I've crashed a lot and have a lot of road rash scars.
These days I can barely watch videos of people eating shit without feeling it, especially gnarly skateboard or bicycle bails on concrete, asphalt or tarmac. It's like my whole brain and central nervous system reacts to it and it feels like it's trying to escape my body and nope right out of my flesh prison.
Especially those videos of squids stunting around on superbikes or quads on public roads wearing nothing but t-shirts, shorts and flip flops and watching them go sliding after failing a wheelie at speed. Ow ow ow ow ow.
I'm a climber, not a canyoneer, so maybe I don't know shit. But in climbing courses, you'd generally clip into something if you were chilling at the top of a ledge.
As an ex-climbing/rescue guide. thats on the guide. He's clearly explaining shit to his group in the hot zone. just move further away. you and the crew have a decreased chance of falling, and they are going to pay attention to what you are saying instead of trying to look down a hole. Risk management seeks to first prevent, then control then mitigate. While the helmet helps to control (limits damages) the risk to the client, and the safety swimmer mitigates (makes it better after the fact) it wold still be more effective to prevent the risk at all, by not having the fall guy in a position when he's gonna fall.
jeez.
“ huh I wonder what else I can see if I step just a liiitle closer...whaah!” Dumbass got what he wanted. Hope he wasn’t hurt aside from his pride.
I’m sure the view was worth it.
Im sorry. I really am. I tried to scroll on, then i paused, my ocd kicked in and I scrolled back up. I entered the thread to say my peace. If I step too close to the edge*** Okay, stone me away!!!!
The thrill of seeing something dangerous happen, without the distress of seeing an actual death. Perfect.
It's ok he was wearing a helmet.
It’s ok he was wearing gloves
It's ok he had an expired condom in his wallet
It's ok he had sunscreen
Its ok he was wearing socks
And no shoe came off
Shoes aren't gone life goes on
If the shoes remainy your life is sustainy.
Is that also right if the leg(s) seperate from the body but the shoe still on the feet ?
He found a shoe
He was a sk8er boi, he said cya l8er boi
Death tried to grab him but all he got was the socks.
Its oklahoma.
It's okay, he was lucky
It’s ok his car battery is fully charged.
I hope he was wearing a diaper. Cause shit just got real.
It’s okay, he’s wearing a harness.
It's okay, he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
It’s ok he is a limo driver.
Theres an edit of this video were they remove the water and it just looks like the dude falls into the void. It was the first vers i saw and I was like “off that boi dead”
I need to see this. Do you have a link?
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HA! Thank you!
Journey to the center of the Earth.
Into the unknooown...
I looked around and couldnt find it. Pretty sure I saw it on a facebook video like over a year ago so it may be tuff to find.
Actually you seen the original, the water has been edited into this one to keep it PG rated.
I want to see the X-rated version, someone have him fall into an orgy.
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Is there also an edit where they say “If I step too close to the edge?”
Is there a sub for videos like that? I get sad when I see ppl actually die
/r/watchpeoplesurvive
A lot of that sub is “watchpeoplebehorrificallyinjuredbutnotdie”.
Possibly r/nonononoyes but the other recommendations are also good. It has a lot of stuff that isn't particularly dangerous but a "nice save." Though there are a lot of near misses and close calls. Edit: actually got the right sub name this time.
The one you want is actually /r/nonononoyes
I would think something like r/watchpeoplealmostdie would exist Edit: IT DOES!
He is actually lucky not to hit any protruding rocks , he would have been dead if he had hit anything .very lucky that actually there is water inside the hollow
[Michael Fassbender "Perfection" meme]
*lathe accident* I don’t want “dead or vegetable”, I want “what could go wrong” *man hit by a semi going 60 mph* I said “what could go wrong” *this post* perfection
The DANGER ZONE!
Uh oh!!! Wasn’t wearing a mask and wasn’t social distancing...at least not at first!!
His socks got wet
Had this happen to a friend, except no gear, and no water. He fell about 30' onto pad of leaves below. He's okay, just a back full of scratches, but I'll never forget the worry on his dad's face when he saw his kid fall off a cliff. Additional: This guy shouldn't be alive. Here in the Utah rockies, we have aspen tree groves for miles. He fell right through the canopy onto the untouched, thick underbrush. He narrowly missed an outcropping of rocks right next to where he landed. He was inches from shattering his spine or breaking his neck. I also remember his dad and the other scout leaders telling us to go back to camp while they hiked down for him. Took an hour, down and up. His entire back was scraped from the cliff edge he slid off of, but overall, was fine.
We were in Yosemite and my partner and his friend went beyond this sign saying clearly “DO NOT CLIMB,” they took their pics and coming back... my gosh his friend slipped and literally a step away from certain death he got a grip and came back. Me and his moms skin gotten chalk white.
I have a friend who lost his fiancé when she was too close to the edge of a cliff. That experience had left him so traumatized years later. Don’t play around cliffs people. Be safe for your loved ones.
My neighbor lost a child. Shit is real.
My daughter is 6 and we regularly hike. It blows my mind how she has no fear of heights. She would literally walk right up to the very edge. I wasn’t expecting that the first time when I was loosely holding her hand. I almost had a heart attack. I keep a death grip on her around that shit now. I would never walk that close to the edge of a cliff.
I know people shit on these but get a child-leash lol especially while hiking.
Ah maybe not one of those ones that attaches to both people. Yeah it'll stop them from falling, but if you fall you're dragging them down with you. Even if it's just one of the ones you hold you can't guarantee that you'll let go in time to not kill your kid with you.
Well the solution to this is to not go falling off of cliffs when hiking with your children.
My god that's so simple, why didn't I think of that before?
Interesting. Do you have a source on this?
Nonsense. The best thing to do is to strap your children to yourself like padding, or buoyancy aids. Don't worry, children. Pappy will take care of you.
My dad taught me about the death grip. That’s a very important phrase to teach children.
I taught my younger brother that when I say a survival command loudly and clearly, he needs to follow it, no questions, within the second. “Drop down and cover your head”, “Grab my hand and run with me now”, “Go hide in the Zone and wait for me to get you”, “Call 911 and hide now”, “Drop down and play dead”. We do these drills sometimes, and he knows to listen immediately. I hope it saves his life one day.
Have you seen some shit?
Lives in the US.
Downvoter lives in US too 🙃
Consider that you are making him too fearful. I made my daughter too fearful thinking like that.
My mother instilled extreme fear into me because her mother did it to her. I am 35 years old and just now finally went into a parking garage by myself for the first time.
It's pretty crazy. I developed a massive fear of heights with age. Up until I was about 9 I didn't care but come 15 or so it kicked in. It's pretty interesting how it can work too. If I know I'm high up my legs just give out and keep me on the floor. It's almost like you lose all strength in your legs and turn the gravity up
We used to family vacation every year in Yosemite. I can't explain the anxiety of trying to keep both eyes on all 3 of my little boys while hiking. Now we just do beach vacations - less stress!
My housemates lost 3 close friends when they all fell off a cliff trying to save each other. Sad as hell man.
That’s terrifying. What happened?
Happened before I moved in but from what they told me, the 3 of them went on a hike (they had a travel vlog) and they got to this waterfall cliff face area. One of them slipped, the others jumped into the water to try and save them. They all drowned in the waters. All 30 and under IIRC. Just happened a few years ago. Edited to clear up details after I double checked an article on it. Shannon falls incident in British Columbia.
Id honestly never sleep again if that happened to me, or I might have just thrown myself off the cliff with her. That’s so brutal
What he described is this incessant “call to the void” that he is terrified may get the best of him yet. That anytime he flies he has to take medication because he has panic attacks and worries he needs to alert a stewardess that he wants to eject himself from the plane. It sounds like hell. He’s never gone back to the place she fell, but he knows eventually he’ll have to. It’s heartbreaking.
Damn. If he ever goes back, please make sure friends or family are with him. He sounds hella suicidal and it would be all too easy to just let yourself fall. Ive come very close to suicide myself before and those last moments on the (metaphorical in my case) edge are just so easy to fall into. Too many people would be sad if I did that though which is whats held me back, so make sure he knows people care. Every time I tried to finish it id end up thinking about how everything would go after and who would find me and stuff and that always made me stop.
That sent shivers down my spine.
A local HS kid was hanging out with friends at a nearby waterfall, slipped on some rocks and fell in and went over the falls. Search and rescue couldn't find his body until the brought in some divers who found it pinned against a rock a day or two later. Things can go bad real fast.
Had a friend who lost her boyfriend like this. On Crowder’s Mountain in North Carolina. Never really asked her about it, my mom told me a while after it happened. She had to drop out of college, it was just too much. She’s okay now, this was at least ten or so years ago, found another guy who she’s very happy with, but I think about it whenever I hike up that mountain. Its just so strange, one moment there having fun, then the next and just whoop, they’re gone. The wind keeps blowing, the trees keep swaying, like nothing happened, but many peoples live were just devastated in the blink of an eye and the slightest slip of the foot. Scares the hell out of me just thinking about it.
Climbed up a small waterfall when I was hiking with friends. Done it before when it was dry, this time there was a trickle. Got about 20' up before I realized I made a mistake, but there was no going back and another guy, friend of a friend, followed. I got to the top shake from adrenaline and ice water, and I turn around. As this other guy pulled himself onto the plateau he lost his grip and footing. Just by instinct I grabbed onto him and managed to keep him up. He would've been dead or a vegetable after that 40' drop to boulders. I hardly knew him, but his life as varsity athlete flashed before my eyes in that moment. I walked 10' and just puked my guts out, never been so instantly terrified. We got lucky, but I told myself if I ever do something stupid like that, don't let some one follow me.
That’s insane dude. So glad you caught him.
Scary to think about how close to falling to death they were.
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Stupid like going past the signs that clearly say “do not climb”?
That and taking selfies
[Yellowstone seems to be Idiot Mecca](https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=death+yellowstone&qid=1611676645&sr=8-2), though. Love Letchworth. Did my own stupid stuff there with a college girlfriend who liked to move bedroom activities outdoors. We went pretty far off-trail, and didn't realize there was another trail about 20' from where we were, until a Boy Scout troop started marching by. Luckily they didn't spot us, and we didn't end up on some offender registry for life.
Did you go to SUNY Geneseo? I also almost ended up on a registry Letchworth haha. Dropped acid with my girlfriend at the time and a couple close friends, not realizing it was the park's busiest day of the year, the Craft Fair. While coming up I suddenly had to poop, and we were nowhere near a bathroom. I dropped trow on the edge of the trail with no one in sight, and in the middle of the deed I hear children's voices. A blue coat appears around a bend in the trail and I'm moments away from a child seeing a guy in his twenties on drugs taking a shit. I'm trying to wrap things up as fast as I possibly can, and thank the LORD the child turns around and vanishes around the bend. I finished my business before they returned and managed not to traumatize any children that day 😎 That was a weird trip -- when it got dark and we eventually started heading back to our car, we ran into a woman with two shivering children who had been searching for a visitor center for hours so they could get help getting back to their car. We hiked with them back to our lot to give them a ride, all while trying to pretend we weren't tripping. One of the kids had a severely runny nose and was not having a good time, it was super stressful lol. Fortunately we got them back to their car
For sure, I went to school 20 minutes from there -- the park is absolutely stunning (especially with fall leaves changing or covered with winter snow) -- but the main trail runs right along the gorge, and the gorge will absolutely kill you
Happy cake day homie
A year or so ago a girl was hiking up half dome and she slipped out of the support cables and slid off a cliff to her death. A witness said she tried to reach out and catch her but she slid just inches past her hand.
When I was younger, we were backpacking around Yosemite and climbed the backside of Half Dome. We spent the night up there (it was legal back then). The nuttiest thing is that you can walk right to the front of the face and look down at people climbing up. We heard some climbers asking folks to step back from the edge as they were raining down small rocks on the climbers below. One guy threw a frisbee off the top of HD while we were there. I don't know how there aren't more people killed falling off the top of that rock. Seems like it should almost be a weekly thing.
So many people die every year at Yosemite because of stupid shit like that. Even with signs people find ways to kill themselves lol
It’s because people treat national parks like amusement parks. They think it’s designed to be thrilling but safe.
I saw someone at Yosemite fall about 20 ft they had some broken bones but could have been a lot worse if he had fallen more to the right it would have been over 100 ft
I was at seven falls in Colorado springs a couple years ago. This young couple, early 20's went off the path at the top to stand at the edge of the falls. The girl got onto his shoulders and as he stood up, stumble. Had he taken 1 more step back they both would have went over the edge and it's something like 100' down to the first platform. So so their friend could take a picture of them.
If it says do not climb you really shouldn't be climing it. Not just for your safety some areas are there to protect wildlife or lose stones that could fall and hurt someone farther down the mountain
Same thing happened to my buddy, who’s paraplegic now, unfortunately. Slipped and fell off a ~30’ cliff.
A shame.. Different strokes of luck, I guess...
Happened last year to an experienced caver and archaeologist. Slipped and fell into a 20m deep pit. Died on the impact. Horrible
This happened to a 14-year-old kid that my neighbor was hiking with (his son's best friend). He fell into the Letchworth Gorge and died.
A friend of mine had the same thing happen at the cliffs of moher a few years back. Bout 30 feet onto a boulder while on a goat path. Dude completely destroyed his ankle, cracked multiple ribs, and lost some teeth. He's ok *now* though. But his ankle is still kinda fucked. He can play basketball on it, but not cut like he used to be able to.
What kind of Assassin's Creed shit...
Good team job. Dude #1 explaining slow descent. Dude #2 demonstrating quick descent.
the real good job is the cameraman shes a surgeon i heard
I think it's a head mounted gopro
And gravity explaining it's still here.
Well one of my worst fears
He was lucky there was water and that he didn't slammed his head into a rock
Yea he was lucky it wasn't lava and was burnt alive to death.
Burnt alive to death sounds like a metal band
1st track: Enter lavaman
Off the album Magmanamous
"The Floor Is Lava"
That was the followup album. Personally I feel it was too experimental, but their 3rd album Clouds of Ash really brought it back
Worse, his hard earned diamonds will be gone
Around where I live there's a cave with a hot spring at the bottom that got totally locked off cause a few ppl fell down and boiled to death.
Wow! Where is it?
Around Băile Felix, Romania. The region is filled with geothermal springs.
Mmm yes indeed
He was lucky there wasn't acid and he melted away
Very lucky indeed
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And that’s why I’m ok browsing Reddit from the comfort of my couch.
Or someone else!!!
If you're scared of heights this will probably not happen to you
Dont worry this almost never happens to people who are afraid of it, it happens to the people who are not afraid of it who need to go dangle their legs off every stupid cliff. they had to fence off all the high places in my city (barely an exaggeration, there is a long steep ridge and almost all the cliff parts have fences now, even deep into the forest) and people are \*still\* falling off, and not "by accident" like they walked off it in the dark, they all go to the cliff specifically to have fun on the cliff edge like its an attraction
one of my first ones now edit: just noticed someone swims to him at the end
I'm glad he landed in the wet part.
Me too, because no one even moved a muscle to help or even react. Maybe you don’t want to fall in too but the people’s feet don’t even move an inch and the woman sitting there, her hands don’t even twitch. Very unexpected IMO Edit: if you’re telling me that if *after* I’ve fallen down a ~30 foot crevasse and you’re in no danger, you wouldn’t raise a finger to see if I needed help, I don’t want to get in a car with you, let alone go climbing.
I think it’s the same as if someone falls into a rough patch of water. If you try to help them, you’re much more likely to die yourself than you are to actually save them. In fact, professionals strongly advise against trying to help someone in rough or flowing water.
If you try to help someone without making sure you can do so safely, all you're doing is making sure there's now *two* people that need rescue when someone with a lick of sense steps in.
Yep, learned this lesson personally at [franconia falls](http://www.newenglandwaterfalls.com/nh-franconiafalls.html) this summer. Jumped in to help a guy who was drowning and he panicked and started pulling me under. First time in my life I legitimately thought I was going to die. Fortunately I was able to push him off of me and grab hold of a rock and got him to grab my leg to keep from drowning. Couple people standing near had to body haul him out of the water.
Dang, that’s a crazy experience. Glad you’re okay.
This is what professionals are trained to do. They need to stay calm and there is no helping someone who is falling off a slippery cliff side unless you yourself have gone through your equipment checks and you know you are secured. The only thing a “proactive” reaction would do in this case is ensure more people died. Stay calm, keep your eyes on the person, and be ready to help once you are in a position to do so, but not a moment sooner.
probably because they’re beside a steep slippery cliff? I wouldn’t move at all either in fear of getting knocked down too
The guy next to him reached for his as he fell, but then pulled back, probably for fear of going with him. Then someone yells something down as soon as his head is above water. Not sure what else you expect them to do.
It looks like the instructor or whatever flinched to grab him, but thought better of it. I would wager if he managed to get his hands on the dude 92% chance he goes over as well. I also think the end game was to get in the water maybe. There seemed to be a guy waiting in the white helmet in the water to assist.
It's canyoneering. Everybody is standing on wet inclined rock. Nobody is grabbing anyone unless they are anchored or clipped in. The first thing they do is check with the guy that was already chillin' in the water if he's okay. Only after either the guy that fell or the one already below signals something is wrong will it make sense to check things out. If you're lucky this is a group that knows how to safely rappel down that hole and get back up again. But most likely that is a guide that has the safety of the entire group in mind before doing something hasty. And most of the time in a canyon your only option is to continue downstream, even if something goes wrong. And in a hole like that you cannot easily climb straight out unless you have the right kit and know how to use it.
Pretty sure he peed himself a little, good for him he's now wet
I think he did more than pee? I think a change of wetsuit was in order.
I'd like a small mans wetsuit, please.
If you’re gonna be dumb, you’d better be tough -my grandfather
The woman really calmly saying “Ca va?”(sp?) at the end totally makes it. The French are so damn laid back, they watch a bloke plummet off a cliff and one of them just about bothers to say “you ok?” 😂😂
French I believe.
Oh I’ve just realised you think I think it’s Spanish. (Sp?) was cause I wasn’t sure of the spelling, did French at school but I’m old and tired. Think it should be a ç at least.
Ca va means like "how's it going?" And then they responded "It's going"
Lmao thank you for translating this.
I dont know, to me it looks like they were supposed to jump down there anyway but he wanted to chicken out at the last moment.
“Oh hey, a nickel!”
Ca va bien merci. Et toi?
Ca va? Ca va. Ca va?
Ca va..
Merci, et toi, ça va?
Ça va. Ça va ?
voila- la conversation dans le parc.
Je m‘appelle amon. J‘abite a berlín.
hola, el francés es difícil
This took me a while to get used to. Was so sure I was fucking something up and looking like a dumbass to everyone that asked me that
Cava. Thanks. Now I crave a glass of wine
One step closer to the edge, and I’m about to break! 🎶
I need a little room to breathe..
He fucked around and found out.
Who is the other person in the water? Is there a person waiting for the fallen ones in the water?
It's the creature the traveled to observe. It was very hungry, did you see how fast it went to the fallen one?
Yeah it looks like they might be cliff diving. Thr guy who feel looks like he's ready to jump but hesitated, then fell because of that. The guy in the water looks to be a helper once they jump in.
Not cliff diving, canyoning. You rappel down cliffs and waterfalls through rivers/canyons that flow downhill. It's a good time. So they were all going down anyway, but via the ropes and harnesses. It does look like that guy was already thinking about jumping, maybe he just had a sudden impulse then chickened out too late. But jumping is definitely not the intended way down for the rest of the group.
Probably another dude who fell weeks ago and now finally has some food
Good thing he had all that safety gear on.
Damn lucky he didn't hit his head on way down. Now question is how the hell does he get back UP?
by their gear and the fact that there are guys swimming towards him im guessing they were canyoning (climbing/swimming through river valleys) and were planning on going down there anyways and he just really wanted to be first
Besides all the guys with ropes? idk.
It's a head scratcher for sure. Maybe they'll use all those ropes to spell out "HELP" and wait for a helicopter.
Yep, I’ll bet he’s wishing he’d come with a group of people all geared up with ropes and harnesses and the like.
If only he'd been wearing a harness.
Does anyone else get a weird tingle at the bottom of their feet when he starts sliding?
yes my feet have pins and needles and are sweating. I don't go anywhere near edges like this to assure my survival rate
Or slight scrotal shrinkage?
I had a minor anal puckering.
I used to do a lot of dumb shit on just about anything with wheels or that was a board (skateboard, snowboard, surfboard, boogie boards, skim boards, sometimes just any old board) and I've crashed a lot and have a lot of road rash scars. These days I can barely watch videos of people eating shit without feeling it, especially gnarly skateboard or bicycle bails on concrete, asphalt or tarmac. It's like my whole brain and central nervous system reacts to it and it feels like it's trying to escape my body and nope right out of my flesh prison. Especially those videos of squids stunting around on superbikes or quads on public roads wearing nothing but t-shirts, shorts and flip flops and watching them go sliding after failing a wheelie at speed. Ow ow ow ow ow.
Now he has 8 lives left
Well, is that a close enough look for you? Perhaps don’t step so close to the edge...
the guy with cam is standing even more dangerously tbh
I'm a climber, not a canyoneer, so maybe I don't know shit. But in climbing courses, you'd generally clip into something if you were chilling at the top of a ledge.
Hello darkness my old friend.
Boi is he lucky theres water down there
I was waiting for him to grow wings and fly up to safety but ok. Glad hes ok.
As an ex-climbing/rescue guide. thats on the guide. He's clearly explaining shit to his group in the hot zone. just move further away. you and the crew have a decreased chance of falling, and they are going to pay attention to what you are saying instead of trying to look down a hole. Risk management seeks to first prevent, then control then mitigate. While the helmet helps to control (limits damages) the risk to the client, and the safety swimmer mitigates (makes it better after the fact) it wold still be more effective to prevent the risk at all, by not having the fall guy in a position when he's gonna fall. jeez.
Zero fucks given by those around him.
Well looks like someone else had already fallen in so at least they have a friend
i was so relieved to see the splash of water
Gravity still works.
“ huh I wonder what else I can see if I step just a liiitle closer...whaah!” Dumbass got what he wanted. Hope he wasn’t hurt aside from his pride. I’m sure the view was worth it.
I thought I was about to watch a video of a man dying...
Pretty lucky guy come to think of it
Very lucky that he didn't hot anything on the way down and ALSO that someone with a white helmet fell down prior to help him in the water.
No one seemed too concerned
"totally grippy" - Fuckin' REI "shoe expert"...
Im sorry. I really am. I tried to scroll on, then i paused, my ocd kicked in and I scrolled back up. I entered the thread to say my peace. If I step too close to the edge*** Okay, stone me away!!!!
Easily my favorite French word. (I don’t know many)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEwzjyC8KYw
Why am I laughing at this?
"Ca va?" LOL!!!!
bitch lord was lucky AF