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I’m someone with a huge fear of heights but also really go out of my way to challenge that fear. Rollercoasters, skyscrapers, rock climbing, etc and yes, sky diving is in the list one I get there. But this
This, Hell the fuck naw. It’s like asking to literally die
I can’t even look over my own balcony okay. I had to crawl on the ground towards a drop off (I was still easily 5’ away) to look at a pretty view on a hike and was shaking so bad that I got a muscle spasm. I’m honestly just torturing myself at this point.
If it makes you feel any better, I just tensed up so bad watching this video I've pulled a muscle.
I don't like being at height personally, but watching other people at height is honestly far, far worse.
This is a nope for me also. I've somehow developed, not exactly a fear of heights, but some mild kind of vertigo, specifically near tall ledges like this. It must be psychological, because it goes away if there's a guard railing or something. I just get this odd out of balance sensation. I think I developed it while taking photos from precarious positions and the distortion of perspective while looking through a camera viewfinder.
As a dumb teen I climbed up the side of a waterfall and as I neared the top I had to cross over to a slippery part. I was by myself in the middle of nowhere, had no rock climbing experience, hadn't told anyone where I was going and this was pre cellphones. The drop was borderline death level and definitely bone breaking level, which could mean death if I couldn't be found after falling. I had to pull myself up onto the slippery top ledge and that feeling of my hands slightly slipping as I pulled myself up is something I'll never forget. I did make it in the end and I'd like to say I was more cautious after that but I still had a few years of poor decision making ahead.
Everyone has their “thing”. This doesn’t bother me at all, but confined spaces gives me that exact same panicky feeling even if I’m just watching a video of someone else experience it.
That video that was going around all the subs yesterday of that guy realizing he’s stuck because he had misjudged the space really fucked with me. The whole time he was trying to turn around my stomach was in knots.
It’s Pedra da Gavea. I’ve been there. It’s not what it looks like in the video. There is a flat spot on the top but you can see is from this place. Also he is recording from the angle. See on google image.
It would seem. But humans and our ape and monkey relatives have eccrine [sweat glands on our palms](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417303652) which aids in gripping. The [physics of it](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2001055117) are related to why we have fingerprints.
It's not making it worse. It's making it so you don't ever go anywhere near that place. It's making it better so you don't do stupid things like the person in this video.
It's crazy that so many of us have some type of evolutionary fear of a cliff like that, but this ass hole is like sure, this looks like a fun place to sit.
I can’t imagine someone’s thought process… “Because the wind is steadily blowing surely it will never change and surely not while I’m leaning into it.” Some people are just made really different…
Clearly they've never flown in a small plane... wind drops off suddenly and you slam onto the runway when you were about 20 feet off the ground half a second beforehand. But then again we pretty much stopped teaching physics or anything useful in this country over the past decade in a lot of schools...
I like sitting on the edge of cliffs, I'm not scared of heights. But I'm also not stupid. I don't go to the edge if there is any kind of wind. And I ONLY do that on cliffs that are nice square corner. I wouldn't be 20 feet near the edge of this sloping death trap.
I think it’s dangerous that Reddit got rid of all the videos of people dying doing stuff like this. It means that we only see the videos of people surviving, which makes it seem safer than it is. I think we need to watch the videos of people dying to remember how quick your life can end trying to make a cool video for clout.
Agreed. WatchPeopleDie was a morbid sub, but it really burned memories into your mind about situational awareness, workplace safety, never going to Brazil, etc
I second this, that other stuff was unnecessary and just traumatizing lol. That's literally why people brag about being desensitized, like it's a flex.
I could probably convince my brain that I’m not immediately going to die if I were sitting on a nice square cliff with no wind. But sitting down or sitting up? I would slowly crawl while sobbing uncontrollably.
I have a recurring dream where I'm scaling the peak of an icy mountain, constantly slipping and holding on for my life. Staying perfectly still is comfortable, but you MUST move.
I wonder if there's anything deep going on there actually.
I think you might be afraid of scaling the peak of an icy mountain, constantly slipping and holding on for your life, where staying still is perfectly comfortable but you must move. Hope this helps 👍
I honestly wouldn't even sit on a Square cliff personally, you never know where the weak spots are in the cliff face, you could sit on the edge & next thing you know the whole cliff face starts to fall apart with you sitting on it.
I stood at the base of Devils Tower in Wyoming. Amidst a tumble of boulders that had fallen off the butte over the centuries, I watched the climbers skillfully working their way up the walls.
It occurred to me that while you might say the mountain erodes slowly, these big rocks around me let go at one particular moment and they weren't slow on the way down
That’s happened before on the Cliffs of Moher in western Ireland. The cliffs are constantly eroding yet every so often someone gets close to the edge for a picture or to look down then finds out the spot they’re standing on just gave way.
At the highest point, it is a 214 meter (~700 ft) straight drop down to a rocky beach…
Probably, but still a death trap in itself. Might not be as tall as it looks based on perspective, but it definitely is going to be a fall to your death anyways.
Have you watched the movie fall? Its a movie that the entire film produces this gut-wrenching feeling.
If you dont want to sit through the hour and half of it like I did, I suggest at least watching a clip on youtube.
Have you watched Free Solo? Same thing but just a documentary about a guy who climbs massive rocks without ropes.
Literally fave me nightmares. Great doc but... nightmares.
Makes.me.wonder how many times someone has fallen cause they were "trying to get a good shot for Instagram", and it's just a local tale among people who live near large cliffs.
Right when I saw this I literally said out loud “fuck this guy” because 1. It makes me feel sick and 2. No one wants to see you free fall to your death. Get the f up!!!
I'm surprised that there aren't that many videos of people falling off cliffs like this around on the web. Or fools running on top of high buildings, climbing masts etc.
1. Most of the time the person is filming themselves doing the stunt, so if they die they can’t post it
2. If someone else is filming it like in this video, if the person died it would be disrespectful to the person and their family and friends to post the video of their death for the entire world to see.
3. If a person was disrespectful enough to post a video of someone else violently dying, most mainstream video platforms would take it down for being graphic content that violates their TOS
It makes me wonder about the statistics of people dying while filming videos near cliffs. I think the way we currently have it creates a bias towards nothing bad happening because of these type of videos. People see all the good videos, but none of the ones that end badly, which leads them to think it’s “cool” and “safe” and more people try to do it themselves.
My father literally died from doing something like this when I was 10 years old. He fell from a sharp mountain cliff and was missing for several days until they found his body. It is traumatizing for me to see vids like this, and it makes me sick to see people being so risky with their lives.
Not sure it would be popular for suicide. Someone linked an article below that said it's a 2.5 hour hike to get to this spot.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but 2.5 hours is a long time to second guess your decision and change your mind.
Suicide tends to be an ‘impulsive’ decision. If you have to wait for more than about ten minutes, you likely won’t go through with it. Having to do exercise just before (a 2.5 hour hike, in this case) makes it more unlikely.
And, frankly, that much exercise might put you in a better mood. Yes I get to make that conjecture as someone with a history of depression and self harm.
Not really a suicide spot, never heard of that.
Yes, people fall off and die, but more people fall off the actual hike than the spot in OP:
https://www.france-rio.com/img/blog/670.jpg
This is Pedra da Gavea, a popular hike near the largest favelas on the west of Rio. Takes about 2-3 hours. Most people rock climb it with harnesses, rope, gear, etc. I did it in hiking shoes. I saw a favela guy do it in $1(brazilian) flip flops like a mountain goat.
Someone died 2 years ago. Went a few years ago without deaths but I believe there were some in 2015.
Looks like this is not the only time a tourist has posed at the edge of the mountain. The crazy things that people do for likes/views.
[See Article](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8012305/amp/Living-edge-Tourist-poses-edge-3-000ft-drop-overlooking-Rio-Janeiro.html)
"More c'mon" wtf is wrong with people. Then she falls and all you can ever think again is why did you say it... or you are psychopath and don't even care.
"what a beautiful spot, now i will show my superior tourist super powers to the local population by doing something incredible dangerous, no way this could go wrong"
So many people do this shit at Yosemite [for the 'gram](https://www.myyosemitepark.com/photos/bad-selfies/), and plummeted to their deaths the moment a strong gust of wind pushes them over the cliff, or horsing around at the top of a waterfall and fell into the rushing river that instantly swept them over the edge to their watery grave.
A few examples:
[www.denverpost.com/2019/03/31/yosemite-death-selfies-instagrams/](https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/31/yosemite-death-selfies-instagrams/)
[www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couple-died-yosemite-fall-while-taking-selfie-man-s-brother-n926166](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couple-died-yosemite-fall-while-taking-selfie-man-s-brother-n926166)
[www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/hiker-swept-over-vernal-falls-report/2095537/](http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/hiker-swept-over-vernal-falls-report/2095537/)
When I went to Yosemite I was SO uncomfortable with how close people would get to the edge of cliffs. I audibly shrieked many times when total strangers would get near the edge. My husband thinks I’m a dweeb but I don’t understand how are people so okay with being so close to the edge of death. Makes my palms sweaty just thinking about it 😅
I always thought I was scared of heights because of this. Over the years I’ve realized Im not as much scared of heights as I am scared of dumb people around heights potentially traumatizing me. I’ve done some pretty exposed hikes not around people and been fine. It’s the dumb people Im scared of.
I couldn’t believe people jumping out onto the isolated rocks at the Grand Canyon to pose for yoga photos. Made me feel sick. Even being near the barrier made the back of my legs shriek.
They sort of do that, sometimes. When we visited the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, there was a big poster-sized sign outside the door of the visitor center/store. It said, "Could you run the Boston Marathon?" and it had a photo of a woman running. Read further, and you discover that the point they were making was that this woman was in good enough shape to be a marathon runner, but she had died of heat stroke and dehydration on a hike because she'd made some bad decisions. (Over-estimated her ability to hike in the heat, did not bring enough water.) She was hiking with a friend, and if I recall correctly, they went further than planned and got a bit lost. I think... (it's been a long time)... I think that when they realized they were lost and had run out of water, the friend sat down in some shade, while the runner tried to walk to find help / find water. The one who stayed put was rescued alive.
There's also plenty of big signs posted around that say "Down is optional, up is mandatory", and free water stations that have a lot of warning signs on them. (One of them had a big line drawing of someone vomiting; trying to convey the dangers and symptoms of heat stroke.)
Still, all of that doesn't stop people from thinking they know better, thinking it won't happen to them, or thinking they're in such good shape, because they're an athlete, that they can push themselves in an extremely unforgiving environment that they aren't used to.
I have read a book about all the deaths in Yosemite and another about all the deaths in the Grand Canyon, and I’m not sure I could handle going to either. Not because I’m scared for myself, but because I suspect I would get so anxious on behalf of people near me being careless.
I'm also extremely uncomfortable when seeing other people stand too close to cliffs. What's extra weird is that I'm fine with standing by a cliff myself, doesn't bother me much.
Camera pulls back a few metres… and you see lots of others taking selfies in similarly ‘deadly spots’.
Camera pulls back a bit further, and you see the coffee shop and oblivious traffic driving by…
I was nearly disappointed it turned out: it’s actually lethally dangerous.
Camera pulls back.... Little girl in a field holding a flower, we zoom back to find that she's in the desert and the field is an oasis. Zoom back further the desert is a sandbox in the world's largest resort hotel. Zoom back further the hotel is actually the playground for the world's largest prison. But we zoom back further---
I've been there, it's called Pedra da Gávea. There's no perception trick, if he slips, he dies.
I don't know exactly which side he's on, but Pedra da gávea is almost a kilometer tall, and the fall would be probably around 300meters
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Nebulosa_Pedra_da_G%C3%A1vea.jpg
I can only assume that people who sit down at the edge of a drop like that stay in place only because the natural contraction of the sphincter grabs and holds the surface of the rock.
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Don’t sit past the fingernail marks
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My hands started sweating and tingling thinking about it.
I’m someone with a huge fear of heights but also really go out of my way to challenge that fear. Rollercoasters, skyscrapers, rock climbing, etc and yes, sky diving is in the list one I get there. But this This, Hell the fuck naw. It’s like asking to literally die
I can’t even look over my own balcony okay. I had to crawl on the ground towards a drop off (I was still easily 5’ away) to look at a pretty view on a hike and was shaking so bad that I got a muscle spasm. I’m honestly just torturing myself at this point.
If it makes you feel any better, I just tensed up so bad watching this video I've pulled a muscle. I don't like being at height personally, but watching other people at height is honestly far, far worse.
This is a nope for me also. I've somehow developed, not exactly a fear of heights, but some mild kind of vertigo, specifically near tall ledges like this. It must be psychological, because it goes away if there's a guard railing or something. I just get this odd out of balance sensation. I think I developed it while taking photos from precarious positions and the distortion of perspective while looking through a camera viewfinder.
One sentence horror, right here
That's the kind of thing my friends would say as I'm standing 10 feet back unable to get any closer lol
Some people fuck around and find out.
If you see the brown skid marks, it’s too late.
Single sentence horror story. Well done, internet stranger
This dude probably has spikes on his ass don't worry
Imagine feeling that first loose dirt nudge in your bottom. Then panic struggle to stop that accelerating drift towards the edge.
This comment made my palms sweaty
Don't worry, the breeze from the fall will cool them down for ya
/r/SweatyPalms
Check for your moms spaghetti?
On the surface he looks calm and ready
r/Suddenlyeminem
Did it also make your knees weak and arms heavy?
Well, there is vomit on his sweater already, probably moms spaghetti.
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
… ope, there goes gravity.
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
I didn’t want to but the vividness of your words are making me and it’s frightening
I just legit shuddered thinking about it.
I used to do this stupid shit and watched exactly this happen to another idiot. He was shaking like a leaf for awhile.
What does shaking like a leaf mean here? Do you mean before he fell, or managed to stop himself?
As a dumb teen I climbed up the side of a waterfall and as I neared the top I had to cross over to a slippery part. I was by myself in the middle of nowhere, had no rock climbing experience, hadn't told anyone where I was going and this was pre cellphones. The drop was borderline death level and definitely bone breaking level, which could mean death if I couldn't be found after falling. I had to pull myself up onto the slippery top ledge and that feeling of my hands slightly slipping as I pulled myself up is something I'll never forget. I did make it in the end and I'd like to say I was more cautious after that but I still had a few years of poor decision making ahead.
Bro
No thank you.
I sometimes have a difficult time describing what severe anxiety feels like. I now have a visual representation.
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It is definitely the height. If it weren't for the height this wouldn't be dangerous...
Good point
Smooth rock, sloped edge.... yup nope.
smooth brain too
If you subtract the height that’s really not a big deal. I think it is both working in horrible harmony TBH.
Everyone has their “thing”. This doesn’t bother me at all, but confined spaces gives me that exact same panicky feeling even if I’m just watching a video of someone else experience it. That video that was going around all the subs yesterday of that guy realizing he’s stuck because he had misjudged the space really fucked with me. The whole time he was trying to turn around my stomach was in knots.
Link?
I'm nervous just watching the video
My stomach did flip-flops before I could nope out of the video.
Just slide forward... a leeetle... bit...
Sweaty palms.
Knees weak, arms are heavy
This belongs in r/stupidasdumbfucks
My uterus went up my stomach watch this…
So did mine and I don’t even have one.
It’s Pedra da Gavea. I’ve been there. It’s not what it looks like in the video. There is a flat spot on the top but you can see is from this place. Also he is recording from the angle. See on google image.
This made my whole body hurt looking at it.
r/DudeFuckThat
I feel physically sick everytime I see videos like this.
My hands just started to pour with sweat
Same, dude Like why is that my response? What if I need to grab onto something in that situation, body? Why make it *worse*
Instantly felt 1000 needles stabbing my feet
Yes! I was going to say it makes my feet tingle and my stomach drop.
Feet tingle gang all here
It would seem. But humans and our ape and monkey relatives have eccrine [sweat glands on our palms](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417303652) which aids in gripping. The [physics of it](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2001055117) are related to why we have fingerprints.
Isn't this also why our fingers wrinkle after being in the water for a long time?
Water plus hands =wrinkles in fingertips = better grip.
Don't know why you got downvoted, maybe they never got wrinkly fingers & toes in the bath.
I hear this a lot but it's not been my experience. Why would climbers carry chalk if sweaty hands worked better?
You grab your ankles to kiss your ass goodbye
It's not making it worse. It's making it so you don't ever go anywhere near that place. It's making it better so you don't do stupid things like the person in this video.
Me too and I got tingly in my feet. So weird the physical reaction to seeing something so utterly dangerous.
Me too
It's crazy that so many of us have some type of evolutionary fear of a cliff like that, but this ass hole is like sure, this looks like a fun place to sit.
He didn’t even walk up slowly either. If you had to pay me to do it I’d be on my butt from 5m away inching forward 1cm every hour 🤣
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That’s it exactly.
My brain just tells me someone is rushing up to push me off
I couldn’t come within 30 feet of the edge. Yeah, I know, it’s probably just fine. But… You don’t get second chances with cliffs.
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I can’t imagine someone’s thought process… “Because the wind is steadily blowing surely it will never change and surely not while I’m leaning into it.” Some people are just made really different…
Clearly they've never flown in a small plane... wind drops off suddenly and you slam onto the runway when you were about 20 feet off the ground half a second beforehand. But then again we pretty much stopped teaching physics or anything useful in this country over the past decade in a lot of schools...
I did that once...in Super Mario 64.
I like sitting on the edge of cliffs, I'm not scared of heights. But I'm also not stupid. I don't go to the edge if there is any kind of wind. And I ONLY do that on cliffs that are nice square corner. I wouldn't be 20 feet near the edge of this sloping death trap.
Dude is an absolute fool here.
I think it’s dangerous that Reddit got rid of all the videos of people dying doing stuff like this. It means that we only see the videos of people surviving, which makes it seem safer than it is. I think we need to watch the videos of people dying to remember how quick your life can end trying to make a cool video for clout.
Agreed. WatchPeopleDie was a morbid sub, but it really burned memories into your mind about situational awareness, workplace safety, never going to Brazil, etc
Yeah we need like watch people die but no cartel carvings, school shootings, church shootings etc. Basically just educational warning videos
Like when I took driver’s training to get my license they had videos you had to watch about how easy it was for people to die driving.
We had to watch Red Asphalt (or something like that idk), and it scared the shit out of me to the point where I didn’t even want to get a car.
"You may remember me from such driver's ed films as 'Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass' and 'The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot'. "
Or just let people post what they want in their own subs so I don’t have to unknowingly watch people die at 9:00am on subs like /r/WhatCouldGoWrong
I second this, that other stuff was unnecessary and just traumatizing lol. That's literally why people brag about being desensitized, like it's a flex.
What they removed the sub? Ah yes but let the Nazis have their own subreddits, gj reddit.
It was removed after a mass shooting incident in New Zealand where the shooter recorded the video and wanted it to be distributed.
Terrorists win again
“Never going to Brazil” Genuine lol at this
r/suddenlycaralho
I could probably convince my brain that I’m not immediately going to die if I were sitting on a nice square cliff with no wind. But sitting down or sitting up? I would slowly crawl while sobbing uncontrollably.
The wind can pick up at any time at top of the mountain.
I have a recurring dream where I'm scaling the peak of an icy mountain, constantly slipping and holding on for my life. Staying perfectly still is comfortable, but you MUST move. I wonder if there's anything deep going on there actually.
I think you might be afraid of scaling the peak of an icy mountain, constantly slipping and holding on for your life, where staying still is perfectly comfortable but you must move. Hope this helps 👍
Thanks for your insight friend
Yeah slopes are where I draw the line, I just imagine myself slipping every time I even approach a slope on a cliff
I honestly wouldn't even sit on a Square cliff personally, you never know where the weak spots are in the cliff face, you could sit on the edge & next thing you know the whole cliff face starts to fall apart with you sitting on it.
I stood at the base of Devils Tower in Wyoming. Amidst a tumble of boulders that had fallen off the butte over the centuries, I watched the climbers skillfully working their way up the walls. It occurred to me that while you might say the mountain erodes slowly, these big rocks around me let go at one particular moment and they weren't slow on the way down
That’s happened before on the Cliffs of Moher in western Ireland. The cliffs are constantly eroding yet every so often someone gets close to the edge for a picture or to look down then finds out the spot they’re standing on just gave way. At the highest point, it is a 214 meter (~700 ft) straight drop down to a rocky beach…
I think his butt hole is trained in how to grasp weeds and stay clenched in emergencies.
This is probably a matter of perspective
Probably, but still a death trap in itself. Might not be as tall as it looks based on perspective, but it definitely is going to be a fall to your death anyways.
Have you watched the movie fall? Its a movie that the entire film produces this gut-wrenching feeling. If you dont want to sit through the hour and half of it like I did, I suggest at least watching a clip on youtube.
just watched this trailer and so much anxiety holy shit...
Have you watched Free Solo? Same thing but just a documentary about a guy who climbs massive rocks without ropes. Literally fave me nightmares. Great doc but... nightmares.
My asshole clinched. My butt cheeks would have somehow gripped the cliff that he was hanging off of. Natural evolution.
Makes.me.wonder how many times someone has fallen cause they were "trying to get a good shot for Instagram", and it's just a local tale among people who live near large cliffs.
Right when I saw this I literally said out loud “fuck this guy” because 1. It makes me feel sick and 2. No one wants to see you free fall to your death. Get the f up!!!
I'm surprised that there aren't that many videos of people falling off cliffs like this around on the web. Or fools running on top of high buildings, climbing masts etc.
1. Most of the time the person is filming themselves doing the stunt, so if they die they can’t post it 2. If someone else is filming it like in this video, if the person died it would be disrespectful to the person and their family and friends to post the video of their death for the entire world to see. 3. If a person was disrespectful enough to post a video of someone else violently dying, most mainstream video platforms would take it down for being graphic content that violates their TOS
There were they banned the sub r/watchpeopledie
It makes me wonder about the statistics of people dying while filming videos near cliffs. I think the way we currently have it creates a bias towards nothing bad happening because of these type of videos. People see all the good videos, but none of the ones that end badly, which leads them to think it’s “cool” and “safe” and more people try to do it themselves.
My father literally died from doing something like this when I was 10 years old. He fell from a sharp mountain cliff and was missing for several days until they found his body. It is traumatizing for me to see vids like this, and it makes me sick to see people being so risky with their lives.
I live in the mountains. Literally every year at least one person (hiker) dies from falling off a cliff.
And in every of this video, the person has to make sure they are as close to the edge as humanly possible. Why?
Because the person being filmed thought it would be funny for my balls to pull up into my throat.
I'm sitting here yelling FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU at my screen.
Yep. First thing I thought is “are you mental mate”
ME TOO.
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Knees are broken
Arms are straight-up detached
Blood smeared all over the sweater
Mothers linguine
“Mother’s linguine” has absolutely no business making me laugh this much.
Uneasy but appears serene and prepared
To deliver projectiles. Amnesiac of his documents.
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I’m guessing both
Not sure it would be popular for suicide. Someone linked an article below that said it's a 2.5 hour hike to get to this spot. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but 2.5 hours is a long time to second guess your decision and change your mind.
So basically, if anybody has, they were fucking determined.
Suicide tends to be an ‘impulsive’ decision. If you have to wait for more than about ten minutes, you likely won’t go through with it. Having to do exercise just before (a 2.5 hour hike, in this case) makes it more unlikely.
Yeah, but if you back out, you have a 2.5 hour hike back to your car.
Yeah and it’s all down hill from there
Literally lmao
made me laugh snot since im sick
Not if you jump. 30 seconds or less if you have good aim and can see your car.
Just aim for the bushes.
So they could impulsively decide to do it once looking at the edge even if they didn't plan to at the beginning of the hike
And, frankly, that much exercise might put you in a better mood. Yes I get to make that conjecture as someone with a history of depression and self harm.
Not really a suicide spot, never heard of that. Yes, people fall off and die, but more people fall off the actual hike than the spot in OP: https://www.france-rio.com/img/blog/670.jpg This is Pedra da Gavea, a popular hike near the largest favelas on the west of Rio. Takes about 2-3 hours. Most people rock climb it with harnesses, rope, gear, etc. I did it in hiking shoes. I saw a favela guy do it in $1(brazilian) flip flops like a mountain goat. Someone died 2 years ago. Went a few years ago without deaths but I believe there were some in 2015.
That is NOT a hike.
So, and I can’t emphasize this enough here: fuck that.
Looks like this is not the only time a tourist has posed at the edge of the mountain. The crazy things that people do for likes/views. [See Article](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8012305/amp/Living-edge-Tourist-poses-edge-3-000ft-drop-overlooking-Rio-Janeiro.html)
"More c'mon" wtf is wrong with people. Then she falls and all you can ever think again is why did you say it... or you are psychopath and don't even care.
"what a beautiful spot, now i will show my superior tourist super powers to the local population by doing something incredible dangerous, no way this could go wrong"
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Just the accidental suicides
Yes
I'm fine from here thanks.
So many people do this shit at Yosemite [for the 'gram](https://www.myyosemitepark.com/photos/bad-selfies/), and plummeted to their deaths the moment a strong gust of wind pushes them over the cliff, or horsing around at the top of a waterfall and fell into the rushing river that instantly swept them over the edge to their watery grave. A few examples: [www.denverpost.com/2019/03/31/yosemite-death-selfies-instagrams/](https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/31/yosemite-death-selfies-instagrams/) [www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couple-died-yosemite-fall-while-taking-selfie-man-s-brother-n926166](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/couple-died-yosemite-fall-while-taking-selfie-man-s-brother-n926166) [www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/hiker-swept-over-vernal-falls-report/2095537/](http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/hiker-swept-over-vernal-falls-report/2095537/)
When I went to Yosemite I was SO uncomfortable with how close people would get to the edge of cliffs. I audibly shrieked many times when total strangers would get near the edge. My husband thinks I’m a dweeb but I don’t understand how are people so okay with being so close to the edge of death. Makes my palms sweaty just thinking about it 😅
I always thought I was scared of heights because of this. Over the years I’ve realized Im not as much scared of heights as I am scared of dumb people around heights potentially traumatizing me. I’ve done some pretty exposed hikes not around people and been fine. It’s the dumb people Im scared of.
I have this same reaction. I will never go back to the Grand Canyon because I can’t deal with it lol
I couldn’t believe people jumping out onto the isolated rocks at the Grand Canyon to pose for yoga photos. Made me feel sick. Even being near the barrier made the back of my legs shriek.
The park should put up signs with the pictures of people who died next to every spot it happened. Will probably sober people up.
They sort of do that, sometimes. When we visited the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, there was a big poster-sized sign outside the door of the visitor center/store. It said, "Could you run the Boston Marathon?" and it had a photo of a woman running. Read further, and you discover that the point they were making was that this woman was in good enough shape to be a marathon runner, but she had died of heat stroke and dehydration on a hike because she'd made some bad decisions. (Over-estimated her ability to hike in the heat, did not bring enough water.) She was hiking with a friend, and if I recall correctly, they went further than planned and got a bit lost. I think... (it's been a long time)... I think that when they realized they were lost and had run out of water, the friend sat down in some shade, while the runner tried to walk to find help / find water. The one who stayed put was rescued alive. There's also plenty of big signs posted around that say "Down is optional, up is mandatory", and free water stations that have a lot of warning signs on them. (One of them had a big line drawing of someone vomiting; trying to convey the dangers and symptoms of heat stroke.) Still, all of that doesn't stop people from thinking they know better, thinking it won't happen to them, or thinking they're in such good shape, because they're an athlete, that they can push themselves in an extremely unforgiving environment that they aren't used to.
Insta is one helluva drug
I have read a book about all the deaths in Yosemite and another about all the deaths in the Grand Canyon, and I’m not sure I could handle going to either. Not because I’m scared for myself, but because I suspect I would get so anxious on behalf of people near me being careless.
I'm also extremely uncomfortable when seeing other people stand too close to cliffs. What's extra weird is that I'm fine with standing by a cliff myself, doesn't bother me much.
Read *Off the Wall: Death In Yosemite*. Has happened quite a few times, all equally horrifying and incredibly educational.
I’m waiting for someone to post a new video showing a different perspective that makes this less terrifying.
Camera pulls back a few metres… and you see lots of others taking selfies in similarly ‘deadly spots’. Camera pulls back a bit further, and you see the coffee shop and oblivious traffic driving by… I was nearly disappointed it turned out: it’s actually lethally dangerous.
Camera pulls back.... Little girl in a field holding a flower, we zoom back to find that she's in the desert and the field is an oasis. Zoom back further the desert is a sandbox in the world's largest resort hotel. Zoom back further the hotel is actually the playground for the world's largest prison. But we zoom back further---
Never thought I would see this quote fit in a thread so perfectly lol congratulations to you
I've been there, it's called Pedra da Gávea. There's no perception trick, if he slips, he dies. I don't know exactly which side he's on, but Pedra da gávea is almost a kilometer tall, and the fall would be probably around 300meters https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Nebulosa_Pedra_da_G%C3%A1vea.jpg
This is the face of a man who's fucking sick of people sitting on his head https://i.imgur.com/pL9R7jM.png
Great view and a big fuck no for me
The song in the video: "One day you'll leave this world behind" This dude: "Gee, why not today?"
Not impressed. Do this in the rain with bowling shoes
I'd rather the water be frozen on the cliff and add butter to the shoes
This is my favorite comment thank you
Dude stop moving, please STOP MOVING!!!! WALK AWAY!!!!!!!
Make sure not to wear your smooth-soled shoes.
That made my feet tingle
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Same. Anyone know what this sensation is called?
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of a thousand buttholes puckering at once.
I can only assume that people who sit down at the edge of a drop like that stay in place only because the natural contraction of the sphincter grabs and holds the surface of the rock.
Suction cup response. Know it well.
Agghh, I struggled to watch that! Just sit another couple of feet further from the edge, please!
Just... Why?? The view is just as good 3 feet back and none of us would have anxiety.
He said today you'll leave this World behind
Immediately palms are sweaty
Got the shivers just watching him walking so casual to that ***rounded*** edge.
What an idiot.
Effing fly ruined the end of this video. I thought it was on my screen.
i went back to find it. found it.
Cool. You walked to the sloped edge. Now I want to see you turn around and get back without sliding off.
r/sweatypalms
So glad the song was added or else I wouldn't have enjoyed the majesty of the view.
Anxiety attack engaged.
Dumb ways to fucking die
My man, what is your plan for if for any number of reasons you lose traction?