HamsterOnAGoat
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Jul 22, 2023 3:16 PM
HamsterOnAGoat
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solmazer
DickSoup
Somehow I really don’t think I’d be able to get any sleep…
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Ifailupward
Nope nope nope nope nope...nope.
NanaBanan
I was just looking at this post and I started sweating!! There should be a disclaimer that says "take ur xanax b4 veiwing" 😆😆😆 I don't get it!! Someone explain it to me cause I DON'T GET IT!!😆
keillrandor
Yeah, nah.
AeonQuasars
The book on last pic is just stupid. Instagram/influencer crap. Sure you love reading, but there is a thing called travel light, you didn't need to pack the entire games of thrones with you on mountain climbing
Hukkie
Depends on the wall really, some walls take a week to climb and people even take a day off entirely in the middle to rest before continuing. Uncommon, sure, but it happens.
RetrogradeLlama
RandyRandalman
The only appropriate reaction gif to this
voxael
I have fallen out of enough regular-standing-on-the-floor beds to look at this and instantly have my brain go
minipancho94
you're tied it, but still 100% with you.
enderite
Buef0rd
Hey you wanna do something semi dangerous and go mountain climbing? Hell yeah bro but let's make it even more dangerous by climbing with all this extra gear so we can take a nap half way up!! Hell yeah bruh!
Lyrahani
And a book. You know, I'm a huge bookworm, I'll read anywhere, but WHY would anyone add the weight of their climbing gear with a book of all things!
Howfuckinhardisittogetausername
anacctnamedphat
Where will you be, when diarrhea strikes?
DoomSquirter
person below: chocolate rain, chocolate rain!
Jaqdakloun
Do these people know they DON'T have to climb those rocks ?
McMeowenstein
Fuuuuuucccckkkk thaaaaaaaaattt
PineappleLoopsBroether
Even if I DID have the ovaries to do that shit, I'd be afraid of having a falling dream that made me fall out of "bed" and then I'd die screaming and confused.
JadeNB1729
Phew, it was just a dream! Shit, it's also real!
MrStealYourGiF
'tis at least a four out of five on the Sigourney scale...
cinquecento
Gotta remember to not roll out of bed in the morning
GoodStuffMcGruff
I cannot stress how hard a no this is from me
Mediathug
I can’t understand the mind that sees this as a relaxing place to sleep.
DoomSquirter
I used to climb my pine tree to the top where I had some planks and shit and sleep up there sometimes as a kid. but this? naw dog no thanks
ElPerroDeLosCinco
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Some people get a big rush from it. Apparently extroverts get a bigger reward from risk-taking than introverts do. So for them, it may feel worth it. To me, I would get very little reward so something like this is completely pointless. Interesting article on how extroversion can be defined in terms of reward-seeking: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/will-the-real-introverts-please-stand-up/
BenTheCockatiel
Cheaper than hotels
Chromentor
Depends how much you value your life.
PaytonFrost
Big wall climbing, takes a few days! Always wanted to try it 😁
dReDone
BythepowerofPlank
yeah....no.
commentsivehadafew
How high are you right now?
IntelligentLake
Dave's not here, man.
Exdeath5000
Yes
LagerthaL16
Ain't enough THC in the world to convince me this would be a good idea much less fun or fulfilling
Quartz87
Like, 5'11.
Inarticulated
PaytonFrost
Hi, how are you?
admiralawesome4213
no officer, its "hi, how are you?"
APassingPlasticBag
ChrisCorona
That would be a big no for me.
Exdeath5000
Embrace your inner whiteness and go for it
annoyedOnion
As someone so white some consider me see-through fuck that shit I'm never doing that
MrHappySmiles
Are they clipped-in in sleeping bags in case the platform fails?
Excludos
Yes. Harness on at all times. Would royally suck to roll out of the tent in your sleep without one
FGnewsbox
Well...they need something to bury you in!
TooRexyForMyShirt
alternatereality543
I have no idea why but this gif has me laughing my fkn ass off.
FishAreSUS
Bathe in the pool of wisdom
GrilledSpamNCheeze
NachosWithDad
Shit fuck that?
GrilledSpamNCheeze
Ehh.. still works that way too
BootsNCatsNBootsNCatsN
https://youtu.be/iTMCI1VaGek
BootsNCatsNBootsNCatsN
RunawaySpoons
What's this gif from?
gIoblobbIobgob
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TheobromineAddict
Hmm. What's the failure rate on these?
Excludos
Incredibly low. We don't have statistics from every country, but extrapolated numbers from America claims that, globally, there's about 150 deaths yearly from roughly 25 million climbers. While movies love to depict failing gear in climbing, the vast vast majority of lethal accidents are from freeclimbers (and also mountaineering, because of long rescue times)
JanusLeeJones
And pretty much entirely from human error rather than equipment failure.
Nonopicard
No complaints from anyone who has experienced a failure, so it's probably fine
TheobromineAddict
Ah, so like parachuting?
Nonopicard
Just so
sadurdaynight
*cue the survivorship bias
bothers
IneedAVacation
Where the heck do you poop up there?
Chromentor
In your hand and then you throw it.
RunawaySpoons
Over the edge. I cannot comprehend the level of hygiene you have to be able to tolerate to do these kinds of things. Like, in an emergency situation, I get. But willingly? I'm not judging at all, it's just not for me and not something I can understand.
Nonopicard
I understand they require pack in / pack out so a lot of people bring 2-3 foot sections of PVC piping, with end caps, poop in that, and just haul it up with the rest of your gear.
whatsisname
You usually poop into bags then put the bag in the tube, rather than just letting loose right into the tube.
lurkyloos
so.. a poop pipe?
Nonopicard
Fecal Funnel?
Omicron416
Number Two Tube?
ZebraCockSandwich
a crap container?
INeverReadTheTOS
This fills me with a type of fear I didn't know existed.
BeccaBeccaBoBecca
Theory I just made up: seeing other people perform extreme sports can cause a visceral reaction as you imagine yourself in that scenario, and your body reacts to that sensation somehow. Heart rate spike, nausea, adrenaline, breathing differently…The riskier the activity, the stronger the response, like when people shudder at the thought of skydiving or hold their breath watching someone underwater.
Lajuku
I suppose that's because of mirror neurons in your brain. They get activated when you watch someone doing something in a similar fashion like when you Do something yourself
mindstorm8191
I think it would help ease your fears if you tie yourself down before dozing off
pseudoersatz
Have that nightmare where you’re falling, wake up falling … and being strapped to something when this happens helps, what?
PutItInNeutral
Let's see the cops tear town THESE homeless tents!
TallynNyntyg
Acrophobia.
Anyadogz
Watch Free Solo. Just watching the movie scared me
BeccaBeccaBoBecca
I had to look away. It was terrifying.
iwishidpickedabetterusername
God, that zoom out!
GabbyJayYay
Those people grew up rich, so they didnt experience danger-fear-exhilaration-endorphins like most of us did in day-to-day lives. So they try to have that experience in their adult lives through such activities while the rest of us say NOPE!! This is why most "extreme sports" started out as sports for the royalty/wealthy (ex: surfing, jousting)
OOSpaceDwarf
Pretty sure most extreme sports start out as only being for the wealthy because... they need high-performance specialised equipment, transport across the world, or dedicating large amounts of off-work time. Not because wealthy people are intrinsically wild fun seekers and everyone else are some kind of boring schmoe. Fuckin pop-psych internet users.
FlyingButtPliers
There's the wealthy who casually buy good gear and the dirtbags who are practically homeless with good gear, which is why dirt bag is a term of endearment in outdoor sports.
JadeNB1729
Alex Honnold's mother was a community-college professor, and he lived in a van for a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold
Hereagain
You're right. A singular example of a late stage competitor in the sport disproves the entire thesis of where it began. Beautiful point.
JadeNB1729
As opposed to your rich store of data? I gave one example because I don't have access to the finances of other climbers, but I'd guess that you probably don't, either.
Hereagain
Correct 😁
BoxOfHellos
Is there a German word for this feeling?
Lajuku
Höhenangst
ActuallyTonyHawk
verzogenes Arschloch
EmanNiemThcin
Serious answer: Urangst.
Tigersterne
Original angst.
aPokal
Lebensmüde.
aPokal
No, wait. They are, not the viewer. The viewer has Muffensausen.
CatSparkleBreaker
These are port-a-ledges, used for multi-day big wall climbs. The first ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite (about 3000ft) took 47 days, and these days the average party takes a few days to get up the wall. The current speed record for getting up the nose is just under 2 hours. Although the route is the same, the climbing techniques used are vastly different.
donkeymoney
How much?
beaubrent
Do they just throw the toilet paper?
CatSparkleBreaker
That would be really shitty of them
SpamYarBlockers
Why would anyone carry a hardcover book in this situation?
CatSparkleBreaker
If you're doing a single push you want to go as light as possible, but parties that haul up gear to camp on the side of the wall will bring up all sorts of creature comforts and silly stuff
wylkyn
I remember when I first saw El Capitan in person, just the size of it actually made me feel some strange fear. It looked impossibly huge. I don't know why. I see pictures of it now and it looks just like a big rock. But I remember that weird feeling being so close to it. I can't imagine climbing it.
CatSparkleBreaker
It's without a doubt one of the most daunting rock faces to stand before. One of the easiest aid climbs on El cap is called Lurking Fear.
Hukkie
If you have not seen the movies Free Solo and The Dawn Wall, they are documentaries of the two most impressive feats ever accomplished at El Capitan and are well worth watching.
bothers
How do the climbers carry the bits? They look HUGE! I guess they pack down, but even so, it seems like a lot of stuff to cart up a big wall?
CatSparkleBreaker
They do fold down but it usually takes a few "pigs," very large haul bags worth of gear, to do a multi-day ascent like this, and moving all this gear up the wall requires a lot of time and work, even with pulley systems and techniques like "space hauling." It's tedious, so that's why I don't do big wall tactics and prefer to climb multi-pitch routes in a single continuous push.
bothers
Thanks! I looked up those pig bags and some of them are the size of a person! Amazing. We humans really do look at everything that shouldn't be possible and think to ourselves, "you know what? I bet I could figure out a way. Might not be a good or comfortable way, but I bet I could do it" don't we :D
LAMovieDesign
There’s an AWESOME documentary about the two guys who scaled the dawn wall in Yosemite. It’s called….the dawn wall. Highly recommend. (They spend a lot of time on portaledges)
CatSparkleBreaker
That was a big year for El Cap, but most of the spotlight went to Alex Honnold for Free Solo, in which he climbed a different route on the same wall without a rope. #5 is a photo of Kevin Jorgenson, likely while he was working the Dawn Wall. Truly impressive feat.
Hukkie
Both feats are downright incredible, but I get that the spotlight went to Honnold because people love the dangerous (Life or death even) aspect of it. Honestly though the fact that he did not just free solo Freerider, but in under 4 hours... most people experienced on that route can not do it in under 4 hours with ropes. Almost 750 feet per hour up a sheer cliff is incredibly quick.
orphanhammer3000
The first image #1 is Tommy Caldwell and his ex Beth. He was the other (amazing) climber in the Dawn Wall.
CatSparkleBreaker
You're right it is! Beth is impressive in her own right.
LAMovieDesign
Yeah, I think most of the world knows who Alex Honnold is and what he did.
minipancho94
how/where do you poo on long climbs like that....
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Carefully.
localsurfer
Long drop shitter
CatSparkleBreaker
Into a sealable bucket, is the short version
FGnewsbox
Was in Yosemite one year, I heard that climbers had made a climbing toilet out a section of large diameter PVC pipe; it was about 20 inches long X maybe 12 inches in diameter. When thy came down they accidentally left it in a nearby meadow. When the park service found it, they thought it might be a bomb, so they got a bomb squad to use a charge of dynamite to blow it up!
CatSparkleBreaker
That sounds about right
pomax
so how do they get anchors in mountainsides that actually support all this weight? Because presumably it's incredibly illegal to just drill a hole in a mountain side.
CatSparkleBreaker
In Yosemite only hand-drilled bolts are allowed, which keeps fixed bolts to a minimum in the Park. Elsewhere there aren't so many rules about drilling bolts, so it's left to local ethics. If there's no fixed gear, you must use "trad" gear (the same kind you'd use as you climb) which go into cracks in the rock and can hold a lot of weight, but you'd use multiple pieces connected together to make sure your portaledge is secure and redundant, and the weight is equalized.
Excludos
It varies a lot, and it's a big topic of controversy. Some people regards mountain sides as holy, pure, and should be kept as natural as possible. Other people thinks wants to make the sport more approachable, and facilitates routes by drilling holes and chipping away rocks to create holds. There's been death threats over the subject.
ShellPhish
I've got a solution. Mandate free soloing so that no one is using any tools.
Excludos
I'd rather skydive without a parachute. Would be about the same survival rate for me
localsurfer
Well, if you're going to drill holes and shit why not go the full hog and cut a staircase? Gotta say I'm with the pure guys on this one.
JollyJokzr
Nah. Just a question of what difficulty level people will enjoy the most. There's no other reason for people to climb stuff other than the bragging rights of being the first
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justareallylongemailaddress
False. There are a bunch of methods that you can use to rap down without drilling. Are they all as safe as bolted anchors? No. But your statement is misleading. There are a bunch of walk off
Excludos
I'm on the fence myself. I completely understand where you and they are coming from. But on the other hand, drilling holes is a core part of climbing. It would be a complete shame if only a very small and specific type of climbing was allowed. Every climber that isn't world class or freeclimbing uses hooks and bolts for safety. I think the way we have it now works well: We have some walls that are pure, and a lot that are have man made routes varying from very easy to very hard
pomax
It's not like there's only one mountain in the world though, just find one that you can do?
CatchySensibleName
How about supporting it on privately owned land, but not on nature reserves, national parks, etc.? If it belongs to everybody, then don't deface it.
jfitz
Interesting, yet somehow made me less interested overall, now I know there's a bunch of assholes arguing about it.
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
I mean every hobby has those people though tbh
Neilikka
Then you shouldn't talk with aquarium people. There is more drama than with adult men playing video games.
Excludos
In my experience, climbing attracts both the best and the worst people. There's a lot of incredibly big assholes, and simultaneously one of the most welcoming communities around.
jfitz
That's every community.
dReDone
Wait till you hear about Mount Rushmore.
DidItForScience
You mean the Six Grandfathers?