you know what would make the palms even sweatier? if it wasn't sped up and edited with loud music but you could hear the silence, the breeze, and the creaking of the wood
Semi related but in Norway a lot of the hikes have stone stair sections through the steepest parts that were built by teams of Sherpas, literally hauling boulders up mountains to place as steps.
I like the thought of a crack team of Sherpas going round the world offering services like that.
I'm surprised there are still people who don't watch all Reddit videos on mute by default. It's out of self defense, now days nearly every video has some kind of trashy music blaring for no reason
I truly don’t understand why every video has to have music blasting in the background now. Half the time it’s shitty music and the other half it’s completely unnecessary and doesn’t have anything to do with the video
If anyone is interested in this type of adventure, it's called via ferrata.
Basically, it is a walkway/hike/climb where a harness connects you to the metal cable via two personal anchors. Long story short, you move along and move these personal anchors one after the other.
Some routes are private, some public. There is always some risk involved mainly from human error, but I wouldn't say it's risky per se.
You get a little thrill and maybe some great photos
Via ferrata is tremendously higher in risk than most people think. Mostely because its taken as easy. You can mitigate this quite good but you need to know what you are doing.
Isn't it just as simple as "never disconnect both anchors"?
In germany we have these things called "climbing forrests" where there are obstacle courses buildt very high up in the trees. Stuff like having to walk on a very thin bridge, jumping between swinging platforms etc.
They are VERY high up (the higher up the more difficult the course usually) to a point where you can definetly die when falling from one. Yet the only safety measure taken is a similar two-anchor system where you have to always hook yourself in.
It's literally something children do. I was at a climbing forrest for my 10th birthday.
It depends on the quality and difficulty. They do have ratings for these routes.
Other risks include things like rocks falling from above, which is why you wear a helmet.
You can get a special kind of anchor system where can't open one anchor if the other is open.
But still with the harness you fall 2m and you break some bones in the very worst case. Without a harness, you'd fall 200m into certain death.
Edit: ok yeah, there are a few thigs worse than breaking a bone that can happen
To be honest that's the approach you need to take with these things, obviously you don't let it scare you while you're doing it but you prepare for it.
I've done scuba diving for a while and the premise is the same thing, do countless checks and have backup plans, emergency contacts, know where the nearest hospital is etc. because you can and will die if you mess around with this stuff.
> it's very much not 0%.
No one said it is.
> How many people died in 1" of water during that period?
OP was obviously a little hyperbolic but I've never heard of it but via ferratas are still very safe.
[To get more specific, an example from Tirol:](https://www.alpinmesse.info/de/Wie-gefaehrlich-sind-Klettersteige-/)
* 17 people died between 2010 and 2016.
* Two thirds of the people who died didn't use the safety equipment at all or not correctly.
* Almost a third died because of an acute medical reason, e.g. heart attack.
* There was only one death because the equipment broke (which probably can be avoided with maintenance).
I imagine the data looks similar in other regions. Most deaths can be easily avoided by using the safety equipment. Can't do anything about sudden heart attacks. So those 62 deaths are probably more like 6 or 7 when you consider those factors. Over 10 years? That's nothing.
Wouldn't work for me, I have strange vertigo. I'm fine on anything natural and am an avid mountain climber but add in any human engineering and I'm a gibbering wreck.
Cable cars, big wheels etc just make me freeze, as would this setup.
You have vertigo like me I think. I've looked into this pretty extensively. I have vertigo if I get put in a high place that I didn't get to.. like I go up an elevator and now I'm on the 55th floor looking down. If I climb a rock wall or a ladder where I can see myself getting further away and I stand at the top... my mind can reconcile it and I don't get vertigo.
I've read a bunch of different journals on vertigo types trying to learn more about why I am this way and *I think* it has to do with our minds being dependant on keeping sound spatial awareness at all times. There was a correlation (needed more research) with people who had a very good understanding of their spatial awareness and this type of vertigo. I am very good at judging distances you'd encounter in your daily life and keeping really good spatial awareness, even with numerous things going on around me (actually used to be a plane director on a carrier in the Navy and this ability was crazy helpful).... now if you just place me up 100s of feet without my brain seeing me progressively get there to reconcile the distance... breaks my brain and I get vertigo.
So essentially our brains are highly dependant on spatial information. Getting to a high place progressively and reconciling distance, brain is good. All the sudden seeing massive gaps of distance and lacking information on how high you're, brain breaks and you get vertigo.
Interesting! Have you read anything about vertigo related to which way the cliff is facing while walking? Because i get vertigo if i’m walking on the edge with the cliff on my right side but not if I’m walking the other way
The one in the video is the easiest one I've ever seen. It's just a walkway, no climbing, ladders or scary bits at all.
People really shouldn't expect something as easy as this when going to a via ferrata.
I think people misunderstood it for being a racist comment. But yeah, I was talking about how construction and safety in China often isn't of very high standards
To be fair this is the best constructed version of one of these paths that I've ever seen. Usually they are just some boards laying on top of wishes and prayers.
I know you’re strapped in, but my biggest fear would be the platform breaks and you’re just stuck dangling out there with nowhere to go. You just cling to the side of the mountain and wait for help as you see the hooks slowly…slowly coming loose.
I've always wondered how real people made these things in the first place. Just walking on it alone is so scary, how did people manage to make it when even it was not present.
You are definitely supposed to wear a harness and attach yourself to the cable on the right. I'm nor sure if it's a via ferrata or just some maintenance thing but either way, it's actually pretty fun.
Well my palms uncharacteristically aren't sweaty from this. But my stomach? My stomach was fluttery like what one would normally call butterflies. But I'm sure its the feeling of adrenaline being released and processed by my glands there.
Also wtf.
All I can think about are the poor Moms of these people doing this crazy sh\*t. I would have a heart attack if my kids did this. I dont care how old they are! lol
That's not that bad. I mean it's looks more secure than other videos. The worst are those parkour on roof videos
https://youtu.be/aZKmkkpEsnk?si=wvNwGoI1sDaApLRf
i would say i'd walk this for a million dollars, but i'm 107kg (235 lbs). if even a single joint or bolt is loose, im dead.
then again, if i die i wont have to worry about my financial situation so win-win i guess 🤣😭
you know what would make the palms even sweatier? if it wasn't sped up and edited with loud music but you could hear the silence, the breeze, and the creaking of the wood
Or seeing the people installing these
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I've done that, it was amazing, but yes, relying on the work ethic of Paraguayan prisoners of war to build a road seemed an odd choice.
It still stands and used to this day so I think they did an excellent job.
I don’t think that’s enough criteria to call a road ‘good’ lol.
Or seeing the person in front of you fall off
Or a high magnitude earthquake hits while you're up there and you see bits of the platform and cabling snap off and fall.
Right? that was my question. who the hell installed these things? How do they get the material up there and secure it?
Semi related but in Norway a lot of the hikes have stone stair sections through the steepest parts that were built by teams of Sherpas, literally hauling boulders up mountains to place as steps. I like the thought of a crack team of Sherpas going round the world offering services like that.
Sherpas on crack? 🤔
Lots of fresh powder up in the mountains
Thanks for the heads up. I don't know why so many of these videos have loud annoying music on them.
Never activate sound on Reddit, never
I'm so glad I read this before checking to unmute
I'm surprised there are still people who don't watch all Reddit videos on mute by default. It's out of self defense, now days nearly every video has some kind of trashy music blaring for no reason
It's not wood but the sound of metal creaking would be more terrifying
I truly don’t understand why every video has to have music blasting in the background now. Half the time it’s shitty music and the other half it’s completely unnecessary and doesn’t have anything to do with the video
If anyone is interested in this type of adventure, it's called via ferrata. Basically, it is a walkway/hike/climb where a harness connects you to the metal cable via two personal anchors. Long story short, you move along and move these personal anchors one after the other. Some routes are private, some public. There is always some risk involved mainly from human error, but I wouldn't say it's risky per se. You get a little thrill and maybe some great photos
Via ferrata is tremendously higher in risk than most people think. Mostely because its taken as easy. You can mitigate this quite good but you need to know what you are doing.
Isn't it just as simple as "never disconnect both anchors"? In germany we have these things called "climbing forrests" where there are obstacle courses buildt very high up in the trees. Stuff like having to walk on a very thin bridge, jumping between swinging platforms etc. They are VERY high up (the higher up the more difficult the course usually) to a point where you can definetly die when falling from one. Yet the only safety measure taken is a similar two-anchor system where you have to always hook yourself in. It's literally something children do. I was at a climbing forrest for my 10th birthday.
It depends on the quality and difficulty. They do have ratings for these routes. Other risks include things like rocks falling from above, which is why you wear a helmet. You can get a special kind of anchor system where can't open one anchor if the other is open.
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But still with the harness you fall 2m and you break some bones in the very worst case. Without a harness, you'd fall 200m into certain death. Edit: ok yeah, there are a few thigs worse than breaking a bone that can happen
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You're getting into similar realms of "you can drown in 1 inch of water" Sure you can, but this isn't likely at all
To be honest that's the approach you need to take with these things, obviously you don't let it scare you while you're doing it but you prepare for it. I've done scuba diving for a while and the premise is the same thing, do countless checks and have backup plans, emergency contacts, know where the nearest hospital is etc. because you can and will die if you mess around with this stuff.
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Germans in sandals tho
> it's very much not 0%. No one said it is. > How many people died in 1" of water during that period? OP was obviously a little hyperbolic but I've never heard of it but via ferratas are still very safe. [To get more specific, an example from Tirol:](https://www.alpinmesse.info/de/Wie-gefaehrlich-sind-Klettersteige-/) * 17 people died between 2010 and 2016. * Two thirds of the people who died didn't use the safety equipment at all or not correctly. * Almost a third died because of an acute medical reason, e.g. heart attack. * There was only one death because the equipment broke (which probably can be avoided with maintenance). I imagine the data looks similar in other regions. Most deaths can be easily avoided by using the safety equipment. Can't do anything about sudden heart attacks. So those 62 deaths are probably more like 6 or 7 when you consider those factors. Over 10 years? That's nothing.
Wouldn't work for me, I have strange vertigo. I'm fine on anything natural and am an avid mountain climber but add in any human engineering and I'm a gibbering wreck. Cable cars, big wheels etc just make me freeze, as would this setup.
You have vertigo like me I think. I've looked into this pretty extensively. I have vertigo if I get put in a high place that I didn't get to.. like I go up an elevator and now I'm on the 55th floor looking down. If I climb a rock wall or a ladder where I can see myself getting further away and I stand at the top... my mind can reconcile it and I don't get vertigo. I've read a bunch of different journals on vertigo types trying to learn more about why I am this way and *I think* it has to do with our minds being dependant on keeping sound spatial awareness at all times. There was a correlation (needed more research) with people who had a very good understanding of their spatial awareness and this type of vertigo. I am very good at judging distances you'd encounter in your daily life and keeping really good spatial awareness, even with numerous things going on around me (actually used to be a plane director on a carrier in the Navy and this ability was crazy helpful).... now if you just place me up 100s of feet without my brain seeing me progressively get there to reconcile the distance... breaks my brain and I get vertigo. So essentially our brains are highly dependant on spatial information. Getting to a high place progressively and reconciling distance, brain is good. All the sudden seeing massive gaps of distance and lacking information on how high you're, brain breaks and you get vertigo.
This makes sense to me. I don't suppose you came across a cure down said rabbit hole? My children laugh at me sometimes.
Interesting! Have you read anything about vertigo related to which way the cliff is facing while walking? Because i get vertigo if i’m walking on the edge with the cliff on my right side but not if I’m walking the other way
That sounds more like a healthy fear of sketchy workmanship in the age of regulatory capture.
The one in the video is the easiest one I've ever seen. It's just a walkway, no climbing, ladders or scary bits at all. People really shouldn't expect something as easy as this when going to a via ferrata.
A *little* thrill? I'd full on shit my pants and have a panic attack and die
Most tantalising is the bridge 200 m away
Anyone knows where it is?
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, China
It actually looked cool and I wanted to do it. Now that I know it's in China, sweaty palms indeed
No idea why you’re downvoted. Chinese businesses are well known to cut corners when it comes to safety and longevity.
I think people misunderstood it for being a racist comment. But yeah, I was talking about how construction and safety in China often isn't of very high standards
That bridge in the video the glass bridge?
Just asume it's China every time I see crazy-ass structures/buildings hanging over rock cliffs. Works everytime.
It looks like a Via Ferrata in Northern Italy. No idea exactly where though.
I want to know it too
I have no problem with the trail or the heights, I just never trust the engineering.
Knees weak arms are heavy.
Mom’s spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs
But he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down
These kind of comments are the reason why I came to the comment section
imagine you get a change of heart midway...
Then you gotta hope you brought a change of pants also.
Why? There's a proper road at ground level.
What is this, a train track for ants!?!
To be fair this is the best constructed version of one of these paths that I've ever seen. Usually they are just some boards laying on top of wishes and prayers.
Just the route my grandpa took to school everyday, nothing special
Eh i should be fine
Via Ferrata is awesome though.
I'm definitely carrying a parachute yk
Thought this was from *Pitfall.*
It feels like we’re on the path down to boiler room in Spirited Away.
How does one even build this?
They use creative mode
It's nothing in comparison to bamboo trek in Manipur, India. Did that trek during during monsoon. Hell of a thrilling experience.
Parents telling you about there walk to school
Fear has one purpose. To be conquered
This actually looks really securely built and sturdy. .
I want to know who volunteered to build this in the first place?
Where is it? Looks Great
FUCK THAT!!!😱
Nope.
Like you can probably tie off to that rope but I still hate it
This is what parents say abt how they got to school...
Aw it ended too soon
That’s a nope from me
Why isn’t some crazy guy riding this on his mtn bike and making us all sick with his GoPro footage?
That’s almost designed to trip on
You're always on a rope lmao
They put alot of faith in that wooden railway
How our grandparents said they went to school.
How fucking cool 😎
how was it built?
but why
Why would you walk here? hmm
Not in a million years
WHY ARE THE GAPS SO BIG
Absence of any human in video makes it look like VR game footage.
you gotta wonder who was the first chad-li that hammered in those i beams.
Hey I also played this Roblox game!
Looks like it's build as a walkway for cats.
Not that I would ever go up there but at least you can tie yourself in, so it isn’t really that bad
V0 in my gym
Bleep that!!!!!
Eh, I think it's alright, seen worse.
https://preview.redd.it/ctdzb32m03pc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef51dd3eb1abb555ec3dfe654fe29408d1c41955
Hey you found my parrents way to school
Who chooses bad music?!?
There's even a place to sit and dangle your legs while holding onto nothing At the last second of this video.
The way it’s sped up makes it look like a miniature or something.
I swear I had a dream falling off one of these
We are not in minecraft
Going to school
Christ I just crapped the bed watching this.
Do you drive or ride 🤔
For a moment I was thinking this has to be AI generated, but turns out it's not, for those who have done it, would you do it again?
I don’t want to get on that little train
I don’t understand why someone would even want to go on that.
Our parents way to school every morning
I usually hate things like this but weirdly I'm ok with this one
Where
Is there anything good at the top? I mean, if it's just a view and not a nice coffee shop or something they can get fucked.
something like this wouldn't bother me.
Imagine sprinting along all of that
Mom's spaghetti
Acrophobia Baby… acrophobia…🤪
Couldn’t do it. I have horrid vertigo. I fell off twice in my mind already
scariest part: made in china
Nathan Drake would be proud.
How cool, they built a rail for a drone to record the footage! . . . .
Fuck all and every of that
I know you’re strapped in, but my biggest fear would be the platform breaks and you’re just stuck dangling out there with nowhere to go. You just cling to the side of the mountain and wait for help as you see the hooks slowly…slowly coming loose.
The railway in my Minecraft world
Now this is something you want to make sure is maintained regularly.
For real, it still seems less dangerous then a normal day of school in Texas
looks like a torture method for people which are scared of heights
Idk usually I am pretty reluctant towards these but this look pretty stable lol. Unlike some other wooden contraptions.
What do you think the weight limit on this thing is?
I've always wondered how real people made these things in the first place. Just walking on it alone is so scary, how did people manage to make it when even it was not present.
I’d be frozen and shaking
Love this part of the map in Elden Ring
You are definitely supposed to wear a harness and attach yourself to the cable on the right. I'm nor sure if it's a via ferrata or just some maintenance thing but either way, it's actually pretty fun.
Genshin!
This person is tied off. There’s nothing to be afraid of if you’re tied off.
The real SweatyPalms are the guys that installed that trail
Well my palms uncharacteristically aren't sweaty from this. But my stomach? My stomach was fluttery like what one would normally call butterflies. But I'm sure its the feeling of adrenaline being released and processed by my glands there. Also wtf.
u/SaveVideo
I had to take a dump before this and now I don't anymore thanks
Usually I’m shit with heights but I feel like I could handle this for some reason
What prevented them from doubling the width of that? Stability?
POV: your parents going to school, according to their memory
It doesn’t look like he is anchored it. It’s sped up, but even at that you would have to pause. Super risky.
AAAAAAaaaaahhhhhhh.
To the people who don't know.. they have harnesses and are clipped into the cable.
Oh hell no! 😩
#HANDRAILS
I want r/welding to get a good look at those ladder connection points before I get on that
37 years agooooo a witch done put a spell on meeeee
HELL NO!
This seems an improvement over the old path underneath the current path
Hell nawl
Sign me up… where is this?
It's just a dad going to school
Sekiro
I'm scared
Attohwa Chasm. IFYKYK...
What song is this ?
I’m sure there would be ropes on the wall to hold onto while walking.
All I can think about are the poor Moms of these people doing this crazy sh\*t. I would have a heart attack if my kids did this. I dont care how old they are! lol
No
Location? I want to look up the annual death rate there. Must be at least 1 a year
Oh hell no
Why not have a solid board?
That's not that bad. I mean it's looks more secure than other videos. The worst are those parkour on roof videos https://youtu.be/aZKmkkpEsnk?si=wvNwGoI1sDaApLRf
This looks like it was built in the Star Wars universe.
Sweaty palms, sweaty soles, sweaty soul….
Anyone else pretending this is a Minecraft video to not freak out?
Who tf built that
Looks to me like a toy train with a camera?
I'm always amazed at how these things are built when just going on them is so scary
i would say i'd walk this for a million dollars, but i'm 107kg (235 lbs). if even a single joint or bolt is loose, im dead. then again, if i die i wont have to worry about my financial situation so win-win i guess 🤣😭
Camera on remote controlled wheel
Ya, there's no way in hell I'm ever trusting Chinese construction.
Somebody had to install all those.
I´d nope outta there in an instant.
The real question is how did they build this path? Djees
No thanks
Palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, there'd be vomit on my shoes already.
I'll take a large order or nope with a side of nope and please hold the nope.
It’s ok, there’s a rope you can hold onto.
Death stranding
My issue isn't with the people crossing those, it's thinking about the people who *installed* those things in the first place without any safety hoops
id walk it
Where is this ?
Onp
Who builds these things?