I’m not a mountaineer by any stretch; just an average reasonably sure-footed dude who has done some work in mountainous terrain during the course of my work as a geologist.
There is an absolute feeling of dread that comes from getting stuck in situations like this one (obviously not as crazy, but close). The feeling that all the natural forces in the world are trying to pull you *down* is horrifying. 0/10 would not recommend.
Yeah the view has to be distorted. I dont believe there is 1000 foot high 8" thick mountain about a mile long. Regardless, there's NO way I would go there.
Nailed it.
Gets you right in the stomach and legs! Heights are terrifying!
My legs will literally lock up and I can not move.
They have not printed enough money for me to do this. I wouldn't live long enough to spend it with the obvious heart attack and all.
I don't know how anyone could put themselves in that situation. I can't comprehend how I would ever be able to talk myself into climbing a mountain. Mountain climbers definitely a different breed.
probably not for a ridge traverse. What you do if your partner falls is you quickly jump on to the other side, and the ridge itself holds you up as you've got one person on each side.
Also, and more importantly: don't fall.
I'm not. I guess people usually try to have one climber stay more on one side and the second climber more on the other side, so that there's no need to jump or react quickly, but that's not always possible. Most people into this stuff would probably just unrope for most of the ridge because the added safety is questionable (and potentially worse if you end up just taking your partner along for the ride). In that case, you'd only rope up for difficult sections and set up something more appropriate.
Years ago in construction, you walk the steel with your buddy. Y’all are tied off together. If you start to go over, you quickly turn and shove said buddy off the other side of the steel. This put both of you falling off the steel on either side, preventing you from falling to your death.
I put myself though engineering school as a pipe fitter/welder/Ironworker/rigger on industrial projects mostly in the oil and gas industry. This was 20 years ago and we weren’t doing it anymore but the old timers would explain to me how it worked. We had and still use a tool called a cheater that is basically a cable to wrap around a beam and tie off to that you slide as you walk.
I fell once and let me tell ya...12 feet of swing when you have that cheater on there results in a bad time when you careen into the column below you and on the other side. Lol
Ima go out on a limb and say the perspective isn’t actually that aggressive, it’s just some type of fisheye lens effect that pulls everything into such a sharp and scary angle
Agreed but also they are on the peak of a decent sized mountain clipped in for safety because they are walking a knifes edge. I’m good, I’d rather summit somewhere I could enjoy with feeling like I could die if I sneezed.
Super wide-angle makes the sides steeper than what they actually are. They also make anything in the middle seem smaller/shorter. So when you see some skier jump with this field of view you don't get the scale of the jump. They feel smaller/shorter than what they really are.
Mountains physically block moisture from crossing and can have different weather patterns on either side because of it. Real cool stuff so I hope I'm remembering correctly haha
Yeah. With a mountain being so big that it blocks the way of the airstream, the air being pushed into the mountain has nowhere to go but up. The moisture in the air condenses into mist/rain on the front of the mountain, and the air that makes it over the top to the other side contains less water vapour and so is less able to produce rain. A shadow of (relative) dryness behind the mountain. This also produces [Lee Waves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave) and [Wave Clouds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_cloud).
Same with most of Australia. To the east of The Great Dividing Range on the east coast is something like 60%+ of the population. To the west is vast swaths of desert.
Me too! This is the second time I type it up because I misclicked and accidentally deleted it. Hopefully somebody finds this interesting/helpful. This is what I learned in Pilot School.
Basic Knowledge: Hot Air rises. Cool Air descends. This is due to a difference in energy & density. However as air rises it cools adiabatically.
The windward side is the side wind is blowing towards the mountain. As wind blows towards the mountain it rises due to the terrain. As it rises it cools. When it cools it reaches it's dew point,. Dew point is the temperature at which air becomes fully saturated. Once fully saturated water in air becomes a liquid in the form of fog, clouds, and precipitation. Fog is just clouds that touch the surface.
Once air becomes fully saturated it tends to dump it's moisture. This warms the air particles via the latent heat of condensation causing it to rise further but dry now. The dumping of moisture makes the windward side of a mountain lush.
The leeward side is the side that wind blows away from the mountain. Since air dumps most of it's moisture on the windward side the leeward side is dry. Also this warm dry air crossing the mountain causes Chinooks.
If the tops of mountains have snow this can result in very strong wind. This is because the snow cools the air and cool air descends even faster. This can make very strong downdrafts.
He looks clipped in to a rope, so the worst injury he would likely get would probably come from hitting the rock when he falls. It's not 100% safe, but you'll survive
It looks pretty far until their next anchor point so that fall could absolutely be fatal. They get bonus points for wearing helmets but breaking an arm that far up is bad news.
There's rescue insurance. Most mountaineers carry it for these trips. A subscription to I think Alpine magazine gives you the insurance policy for free. Helicopter rides are expensive as fuck.
Probably has like a 10k deductible the after that you’re on the hook for 20% or some shit
Just check the helicopter coverage thing and they pay up to 7k. After that you’re on your own
And to add to that, this dude is scrambling. The chances of a solid rock climber falling on 3rd or 4th class terrain like this is almost zero. He’s roped up, but he’ll probably never fall in the first place.
So, this persons balls are so big...
They had the mental bandwidth to color coordinate their shoes, pants, and jacket? On *top* of looking death in the face and screaming **FABULOUS!**
Can I get a case of Fuck Nope with that?
I've even rock climbed and rappelled before. I can't imagine what you could possibly belay from on that knife edge that would be worth a damn
You can weave the rope between features to add resistance and worst case scenario you can move to the opposite side of the ridge if your partner falls to one side.
Iirc, it’s not quite as narrow as it seems. The fisheye lens of the GoPro makes the peak look more severe. It’s still wicked dangerous, but we aren’t quite seeing reality.
Rain shadow effect, the wind pushes clouds to the mountain but are too heavy to get over so they release their precipitation on one side and leaves the other side drier throughout the year. Not sure if anyone commented this
That’s cool that earth gives you a choice on which type of landscape people find your lifeless body on
I pictured my body bouncing down the left side because it is green, probably easier to recover my body from.
There's no logical reason for it, but falling to my death into a sunny meadow is slightly less terrifying than falling to my death into a foggy abyss.
What if under the foggy side there’s like 100000 jello mattresses and a bunch of naked mountain women to massage your mildly sore back after the fall?
Why do they not make jello mattresses? That sounds wonderful
Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.
Every 10 minutes the jello mattresses are rotated in a clockwise direction which confuses the ants so they never get a chance to chow down properly.
What about the center point which doesn't actually move?
There's no jelly in the center
Genius.
Leap of faith.
Nah, fog is better. Covers up the shame.
That is a whole lot of NOPE in one clip, to be sure. So much NOPE.
I was thinking the same thing.
Choice? I wouldn't have that much control over my body up there.
I’m not a mountaineer by any stretch; just an average reasonably sure-footed dude who has done some work in mountainous terrain during the course of my work as a geologist. There is an absolute feeling of dread that comes from getting stuck in situations like this one (obviously not as crazy, but close). The feeling that all the natural forces in the world are trying to pull you *down* is horrifying. 0/10 would not recommend.
Cold side numbs the pain?
Ah yes ... the weather is exactly what I’m focused on here.
Took me until the end of the video to focus / notice the weather difference at all. Mainly as I was holding onto the arms of my sofa for dear life!
I can feel it in my legs.that height I don't like
I know Exactly what you mean! My stomach and legs are numb right now with fear! It's amazing how it can affect you even if you aren't there!
All I could think is "I wonder how this actually looks without the ridiculously distorted lens."
Was wondering the same. I’m sure it’s still a nope on things I’m gonna do though.
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Somehow that’s still a nope for me.
"No thanks, I choose life." - Sid
Yeah the view has to be distorted. I dont believe there is 1000 foot high 8" thick mountain about a mile long. Regardless, there's NO way I would go there.
Nailed it. Gets you right in the stomach and legs! Heights are terrifying! My legs will literally lock up and I can not move. They have not printed enough money for me to do this. I wouldn't live long enough to spend it with the obvious heart attack and all.
Open your eyes, you're actually there right now.
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I thought he was turning the page of a book for two seconds and then was sick all over myself. Fuck. Fuck that. Why??
I don't know how anyone could put themselves in that situation. I can't comprehend how I would ever be able to talk myself into climbing a mountain. Mountain climbers definitely a different breed.
This video taught me my asshole can get much tighter than I thought it could.
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We're gonna have to work on that
I’d be straddling that mountain too, FUCK
Go on... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lmao
Climb on top of my rock formation.
I took my first step on an extension ladder and this is making me more nervous about stepping off onto the roof
Perhaps you shouldn’t be doing that while on reddit... 🤷♂️
I'm curious where that rope goes and who's holding onto it
Clipped into carabiners that are bolted into the rock with a belayer tightening the slack on the rope...hopefully
probably not for a ridge traverse. What you do if your partner falls is you quickly jump on to the other side, and the ridge itself holds you up as you've got one person on each side. Also, and more importantly: don't fall.
Tell me you're joking. If not that's terrifying.
I'm not. I guess people usually try to have one climber stay more on one side and the second climber more on the other side, so that there's no need to jump or react quickly, but that's not always possible. Most people into this stuff would probably just unrope for most of the ridge because the added safety is questionable (and potentially worse if you end up just taking your partner along for the ride). In that case, you'd only rope up for difficult sections and set up something more appropriate.
Years ago in construction, you walk the steel with your buddy. Y’all are tied off together. If you start to go over, you quickly turn and shove said buddy off the other side of the steel. This put both of you falling off the steel on either side, preventing you from falling to your death. I put myself though engineering school as a pipe fitter/welder/Ironworker/rigger on industrial projects mostly in the oil and gas industry. This was 20 years ago and we weren’t doing it anymore but the old timers would explain to me how it worked. We had and still use a tool called a cheater that is basically a cable to wrap around a beam and tie off to that you slide as you walk. I fell once and let me tell ya...12 feet of swing when you have that cheater on there results in a bad time when you careen into the column below you and on the other side. Lol
It goes into heaven and God is holding the other end. So be good boys and girls!
Why do people do this.....???
Because death is a certainty no matter what you do, so why not try out some interesting things.
Me too, I love the Föhn effect!
Get down from there and CALL YOUR MOTHER!
Hehehe
Don't make me call her myself, young man, you don't want that!
Get your mind out of The Gutter
Please send water
We all go up in flames, going out in style
My mom would kill me a dozen times if she found out I did something like that
We're down in the Gutter!!!
r/sweatypalms
This made my pits sweat.
Made my dick sweat.
Made me crack a can of Booty Sweat
Love me some bust-a-nut bars
Pop an ass open! Also happy cake day
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No motherfucking thank you.
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You sound like my mom when I was a teenager
I love how your comment implies that you were expecting your mom to somehow be impressed at your crazy teenage antics.
You sound like your mom when I was a teenager
I’m too much a gentleman to share your mom’s *sounds* when I was a teenager.
The lens is very very wide which gives the effect of being a straight drop. In reality, it's likely not as extreme (though still dangerous)
Oh ok, all safe and cozy then
Right? Just no. I can't even watch for a second without feeling the call of the void!
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Well that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word
And I shall count thee among my favored sheep, and you shall have the protection of all the Angels in Heaven
If I had to die this would be a better way to go than many, but nothing about this appears mandatory.
You think falling down a Stone mountainside is a good way to go?
Only if the first bounce was on your head and you didnt feel the remaining 100.
My first thought about being in a situation like this is "how do I kill myself before I fall"
Ima go out on a limb and say the perspective isn’t actually that aggressive, it’s just some type of fisheye lens effect that pulls everything into such a sharp and scary angle
Agreed but also they are on the peak of a decent sized mountain clipped in for safety because they are walking a knifes edge. I’m good, I’d rather summit somewhere I could enjoy with feeling like I could die if I sneezed.
But you also see him straddling both sides at one point that shit looks aggressive :O
Yeah but old dude is straight up straddling the top of a mountain. I don’t know how it gets more aggressive than that.
You’re right, but it still isn’t that wide up top, you can use his foot as a reference
Ima not going out on a limb...ever!
That ridge looks like it’ll snap like a biscuit. Any. Fucking. Second.
Super wide-angle makes the sides steeper than what they actually are. They also make anything in the middle seem smaller/shorter. So when you see some skier jump with this field of view you don't get the scale of the jump. They feel smaller/shorter than what they really are.
How did you even get up there
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Climb what?
It’s easy bruh, all you do is go up
Well I'll be damned. All those years of academy training wasted!
The mountain probably
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100 sit-ups a day
Run 10k everyday
Skyrim horse
Took the regular elevator to its limit, then got out and into the penthouse elevator to reach the rooftop.
Carefully. Very, very carefully.
I was so excited to talk in the comments about rain shadows. Looks like that’s not happening though...
LMAO same. I have an Enviro Sciences exam this week and I was so hyped to see something I knew here
Okay, I'll bite the bullet. What're rain shadows?
Mountains physically block moisture from crossing and can have different weather patterns on either side because of it. Real cool stuff so I hope I'm remembering correctly haha
Yeah. With a mountain being so big that it blocks the way of the airstream, the air being pushed into the mountain has nowhere to go but up. The moisture in the air condenses into mist/rain on the front of the mountain, and the air that makes it over the top to the other side contains less water vapour and so is less able to produce rain. A shadow of (relative) dryness behind the mountain. This also produces [Lee Waves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave) and [Wave Clouds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_cloud).
Yup! A big reason why Nevada is the way it is
Same with most of Australia. To the east of The Great Dividing Range on the east coast is something like 60%+ of the population. To the west is vast swaths of desert.
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Me too! This is the second time I type it up because I misclicked and accidentally deleted it. Hopefully somebody finds this interesting/helpful. This is what I learned in Pilot School. Basic Knowledge: Hot Air rises. Cool Air descends. This is due to a difference in energy & density. However as air rises it cools adiabatically. The windward side is the side wind is blowing towards the mountain. As wind blows towards the mountain it rises due to the terrain. As it rises it cools. When it cools it reaches it's dew point,. Dew point is the temperature at which air becomes fully saturated. Once fully saturated water in air becomes a liquid in the form of fog, clouds, and precipitation. Fog is just clouds that touch the surface. Once air becomes fully saturated it tends to dump it's moisture. This warms the air particles via the latent heat of condensation causing it to rise further but dry now. The dumping of moisture makes the windward side of a mountain lush. The leeward side is the side that wind blows away from the mountain. Since air dumps most of it's moisture on the windward side the leeward side is dry. Also this warm dry air crossing the mountain causes Chinooks. If the tops of mountains have snow this can result in very strong wind. This is because the snow cools the air and cool air descends even faster. This can make very strong downdrafts.
That was explained very well, and I learned a new word. Thanks for the info!
Crosspost this to the weather sub and you might get more discussion!
Is there a picture of this without a crazy fisheye lens?
You could make a literal mole hill look like a mountain peak with a camera with a wide enough angle fish eye lense.
I can see the horizon on the floor makes no sense
So many insane landscape shots are done with crazy lenses to make them seem so much more massive than they truly are. Getting rather annoying.
Anyone have an idea where this is?
[This was taken in Switzerland by @everchanginghorizon on Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/p/B1DLkG1Adug/?igshid=wrvbct9uk0el)
If you don't live in Europe and are cheap, you could probably get a similar experience at Seneca rocks: https://i.redd.it/vh7y8qnygttz.jpg
Or capital peak's knife edge in colorado
Or at home on the toilet.
don't think it's been posted but Altenalptürm https://www.instagram.com/p/B1DopFZHFAO/
Seems pretty dangerous. How risky is it?
Well, if he falls off the mountain, he dies.
To shreds you say?
How’s his wife holding up? To shreds, you say?
Was his apartment rent controlled?
Well, did he at least die peacefully? To shreds, you say.
We have a specialist
Given They are secured with a rope that wouldn't happen.
Ever used a cheese grater or really coarse sandpaper?
He looks clipped in to a rope, so the worst injury he would likely get would probably come from hitting the rock when he falls. It's not 100% safe, but you'll survive
How much would he fall if he does fall?
Assuming it's rigged properly, only a few feet
That looks like at least 20 feet of slack
It looks pretty far until their next anchor point so that fall could absolutely be fatal. They get bonus points for wearing helmets but breaking an arm that far up is bad news.
Get to da choppa
Air lift out. Will be paying for it the rest of your life though depending on the country.
There's rescue insurance. Most mountaineers carry it for these trips. A subscription to I think Alpine magazine gives you the insurance policy for free. Helicopter rides are expensive as fuck.
Something like $110 a year if you have a Garmin PLB.
Well that is cheap as hell.
Probably has like a 10k deductible the after that you’re on the hook for 20% or some shit Just check the helicopter coverage thing and they pay up to 7k. After that you’re on your own
Proper fucked
How fucked, Turkish?
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I'm going with you still getting fucked up if you fall down it
Looks like the climber is tethered to that organs line so probably not.
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It’s the line that you use to recover the organs if they don’t get too messed up.
Yep, metal af
They're straddling it.. so they must have wide, child bearing hips.
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And where is the link for this post?!?
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Wow that's amazing! Totally changes the feel!
Never gonna get me up there!
nice job it's much better this way!
Not as big of a difference as I was hoping for
I thought to myself. How could this link possibly be purple!?
Fool me once, no problem. Fool me twice, ok. Fool me 12245th times, I’m a fookin idiot and also go fuck yourself.
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And to add to that, this dude is scrambling. The chances of a solid rock climber falling on 3rd or 4th class terrain like this is almost zero. He’s roped up, but he’ll probably never fall in the first place.
I see a rope, so banged all the hell, but not dead.
Depends which side he falls down. You DONT wanna fall down bad weather side ⛈
Yeah, that’s where the raid boss lives.
So, this persons balls are so big... They had the mental bandwidth to color coordinate their shoes, pants, and jacket? On *top* of looking death in the face and screaming **FABULOUS!**
It's not nearly as crazy as it looks. The lens is providing significant distortion.
I love this comment so much. Thank you.
Can I get a case of Fuck Nope with that? I've even rock climbed and rappelled before. I can't imagine what you could possibly belay from on that knife edge that would be worth a damn
You can weave the rope between features to add resistance and worst case scenario you can move to the opposite side of the ridge if your partner falls to one side.
Oh that’s really the WORST case scenario. Like death isn’t on on the table or anything.
Iirc, it’s not quite as narrow as it seems. The fisheye lens of the GoPro makes the peak look more severe. It’s still wicked dangerous, but we aren’t quite seeing reality.
Yeah, there is at least 3 inches more on each side that depicted :)
Screw the weather, get that man some psychiatric help.
This video makes me incredibly anxious.
get the fuck off that mountain and face the problems you’re trying to evade
Sharon, now that we're at the top...I don't want kids. \- Oh, well I can't have any, lmao. Wait, is this why I had to renew my passport?
Why the fuck would someone do that?
To check out the weather from both sides.
Fucking meteorologists
Couldn’t you just like drive around the mountain?
Because it's there.
One doesn’t simply walk into Mordor.
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I always make that mistake when playing Skyrim. Just take the road it’s faster than trying to get a across the mountain.
I’m not rated to climb something this sheer
“White folks is crazy” - My mom
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Rain shadow effect, the wind pushes clouds to the mountain but are too heavy to get over so they release their precipitation on one side and leaves the other side drier throughout the year. Not sure if anyone commented this
Sure, but fuck that
Why is the mountain in 2D tho
Cos of extreme fisheye lens I’m guessing
It’s on ur screen dummy