That's a nope for me, dawg.
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He’s got a harness on but it doesn’t look like it’s connected to anything.
I don't think that's a harness I think it's a chalk bag. You can see the bag just behind his hand.
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This is a well known picture of Alex Honnold free-soloing the route. Free-soloing means he is climbing without a rope. He has a chalk bag on a belt, but no harness or rope. There is a documentary that features this called “Free Solo”, if you could imagine. It’s worth a watch if you don’t have anything pressing going on.
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It’s Alex Honhold. He’s wired differently than most people. Definitely not tethered.
Wired very differently. Free-climbing El Capitan is certified bonkers.
It’s amazing to me that he’s still alive, and lives in Las Vegas with a wife and kids. Like somehow he has a “normal” life on top of his climbing insanity.
Seriously. Doing that shit when you have a kid is nuts to me.
Irresponsible with an inevitable conclusion.
I think there's some credit where credit is due for all the effort he puts in to minimising risk. There's plenty of people that do various hiking/climbing that is at least as dangerous as what he does.
When you consider the climbing level this guy is at, him soloing a 6a route is probably comparable to someone "ordinary" going for a 20 km hike in exposed terrain: It has risk (rockfall, possibility of slipping, etc.) that could kill you, but it's not generally considered an excessively foolish thing to do.
"Minimizing risk", if you're not psychic, involves safety gear.
i minimize risk by never coming closer to a ledge than my own height above the ground, unless there's a fence. FFFFFFFFFFuck that shit.
i'll peer just my eyes over a ledge while crawling. maybe.
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Fun fact, Alex said in an interview that this is a picture of him having a panic attack. Just shaking and desperately trying to keep calm as adrenaline pours through his system.
Oh, this guy.
Dude needs to keep his death wish to himself and maybe use some safety gear when he's on camera.
Like, he's good; really good. But being good and being sensible are not exclusive.
Unpopular opinion, I get it. I never understood free climbers, especially when I was playing outside (I was raised gymbo with no wish to be mangled and no illusions about my normie skill, and one of those things makes me need to see a safety line on that kid). Downvote away because apparently that's cool.
I’ve got a hard time glorifying potentially deadly sports. Hang on, I know the next comment is gonna be about something like F1 racing or something, but even F1 goes to great lengths to protect the drivers as much as reasonably possible. It’d be like going back to car racing in open air, no crashworthiness, no helmet, no HALO, etc. to compare to free climbing like this. This guy dies and people will idolize someone playing with suicide. Don’t particularly care if he dies doing it for himself, but the attention he gets could be done without.
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Didn't know that he was able to have panic attacks at all. Something to do with his amygdala or something. Good to know that he's only human, I was deeply moved after watching him in Free Solo.
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The good thing about this is that you don't have to do this
Why? Why would you do this?
And to quote Gwen on Galaxy Quest:
Well fuck that!
I have a fear of heights, so this is terrifying to me. I also wonder why people do this.
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When I say I'm not afraid of heights; what I really mean is that I'm not abnormally afraid of heights.
*bonus edit: the legendary Dan Osmond. Died not long after, when a rope snapped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCByLWtM7y4
Misread:
The legendary Dan Osmond who died not long after his rope snapped.
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What a nice place to relax and have a cool refreshing glass of NOPE.
Remember kids, it's not the fall that kills you...it's the sudden stop at the end.
Just completely miss the ground and you'll be fine, duh
Today I fell off a ledge into orbit.
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/c/majorlyterrifying
Imagine standing there and then suddenly that slab under your feet shifts.
I can imagine myself on that ledge and being the one person where after thousands of years of being perfectly fine, the ledge finally decided to give way and separate from the cliff.
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Just looking at this picture makes my hands sweaty
Imagine sneezing
"Because it's there" is not sufficiant reason for climbing a mountain.
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"Thank God Ledge" is an iconic feature on the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. This narrow granite ledge, approximately 35 feet long, varies in width from about 5 to 12 inches and is situated roughly 1,800 feet above the valley floor.
On a scale of "1 to NOPE" I rate this an "absolutely the fuck not, what is wrong with you?"
Thank God I'm not stupid enough to do this LOL.
It's not as bad as it looks, the photo is at an angle. Look at the horizon or the trees. The actual ledge leans back
Reminds me of the Via Ferrata in Switzerland. It really gets the blood pumping and gives you a massive adrenaline rush, as your feet are walking on tiny metal bolts driven into a sheer cliff. You can see all the way down to the valley floor from between your toes :3
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nonononononono. nope. non. nein.
One fart and I'm dead
Is it really as steep as shown in the picture? The trees seem to lean a little bit to the left.
Either way. Hell no.
It's the sheer face of half dome. It may not be exactly 90° upright but it basically is.
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Please mark this NSFL.
Hard pass
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