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I Greyhound posted:Almost certainly trying to do something similarly stupid as this: Wow, that's almost a two fer. The guy in the wing suit and the guy holding balloons for some reason.
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Can any of you guys recommend a few good documentaries on thru-hiking? I saw Mile... Mile and a Half on Netflix and that was okay.
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Cojawfee posted:Wow, that's almost a two fer. The guy in the wing suit and the guy holding balloons for some reason. Corliss has actually been part of a few accidents too. Here's one where he hits a rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w Wikipedia posted:On January 16, 2012, in an accident while proximity flying off Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa, Corliss broke both ankles, three toes, and a fibula, tore his left Anterior cruciate ligament, and sustained a gash in his skin that required skin grafts to close. He struck his legs approximately halfway between the hip and knee on a rock ledge he was attempting to skim over while aiming at a target balloon. The impact caused him to tumble forward one revolution before he regained some control, cleared some additional ledges and then deployed his parachute. Due to the lack of stability, his canopy quickly spun him into the ground. He was airlifted out by the Red Cross Air Mercy Service. He has recovered, and plans to return to life as usual. A video of the accident has been released. Also, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF214wDC4L8 (guy dies in this video, not graphic at all or anything and you wouldn't really even know, but still fair warning) Wikipedia posted:In October 2003, Corliss was teamed to jump with his best friend, Australian BASE jumper Dwain Weston, at the inaugural Go Fast Games. Corliss was to fly under the Royal Gorge Bridge, while Weston was meant to pass over it. Instead, Weston impacted the bridge at an estimated speed of 120 mph (190 km/h) and was killed instantly. Corliss had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with Weston's body. Youtube comment... posted:"According to Fremont County Coroner Dr. Dorothy Twellman, Weston's leg severed from his body upon impact. He also suffered a punctured lung, severe damage to his other leg and a fractured neck, Twellman said." So, that black object flying up out of frame at 0:51 might very well be Weston's leg.
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DumbparameciuM posted:Kind of surprised that Shane McConkey hasn't come up yet. He was quite an experienced base jumper (was a famous Mogul/Freestyle skier beforehand) who died because of gear failure. McConkeys thing was, well, this: Shane rules. Shred gnar. What a glorious hero idiot bastard.
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May 21, 2015 06:12
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The guy's ski in The Spy Who Loved Me stunt actually hit the parachute as it was deploying, which could have ended disastrously. He also deployed the chute somewhat late, so they were worried that they'd have to reshoot the entire stunt. But one of the cameras did catch it.
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May 21, 2015 06:46
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I Greyhound posted:Almost certainly trying to do something similarly stupid as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w He actually hit a mountain too, how he managed to recover it is beyond me.
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May 21, 2015 07:16
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Cojawfee posted:Wait, your post was serious? lol Cojawfee posted:Considering coca leaves are illegal and considered the same as cocaine in many countries, congrats on doing drugs I guess.
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May 21, 2015 07:28
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Ruggan posted:(guy dies in this video, not graphic at all or anything and you wouldn't really even know, but still fair warning) IDK, no one hears that BONNNNnnngg as his body hits a bridge at 2000 mph and reasonably thinks, "He probably made it."
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Meatwave posted:Can any of you guys recommend a few good documentaries on thru-hiking? I saw Mile... Mile and a Half on Netflix and that was okay. Youtube has a few thru hikers who've captured most/a lot of their hikes. Will Wood / Redbeard is one, he did the AT last year and is doing the PCT this year with regular updates. I really hate the way he talks, but his videos are very informative. If you hike yourself and am at all interested in lightweight gear, his gear reviews are pretty good too and not as terrible as most on youtube. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I do recommend them if you want to see what the trail looks like in different states, how the towns, the hostels etc look like. The kinda trouble with some of these videos (all videos people are recording of themselves) are that everyone hiking with a camera only turns it on when something special happens and everyone not hiking is looking for more of a glimpse into the hardships and hiking learning experiences, but most people I've seen on youtube are more interested in projecting an image of themselves as super hikers and of course capturing the most spectacular parts of their hike. edit: to clarify, none of these people take a journalistic approach to document what goes on on the trail, most videos are more like a hi mum, this is dan, dan wave to the camera, look at this cliff face than So Dan, what made you hike the at, how far are we, how is it going, etc. It's other peoples holiday videos basically, but it's still interesting to see what the trail looks like for someone like me who'll never get to walk it. prinneh fucked around with this message at 22:12 on May 21, 2015 |
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Ruggan posted:Also, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF214wDC4L8 (guy dies in this video, not graphic at all or anything and you wouldn't really even know, but still fair warning) I've seen worse but seeing a guy hit a railing at 190 km an hour still isn't a pretty sight.
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May 21, 2015 23:01
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:For Britgoons, Rondette forgot to tell you you can watch that new BBC K2 documentary online legally here: That dude's family is absurdly good at getting pity but the reality is that year was a clusterfuck and no one should come away proud of how it turned out.
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May 21, 2015 23:08
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On both the geology and unsolved mysteries topics, where do you guys think Devil's Kettle heads to?
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CommunistPancake posted:On both the geology and unsolved mysteries topics, where do you guys think Devil's Kettle heads to? No one has ever thrown something with GPS into it?
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I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the water almost immediately rejoins the rest of the river, because the idea that the water table there is somehow split and isolated with no joints connecting them is pretty implausible.
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May 22, 2015 01:24
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Sounds like a job for some cave divers
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Cojawfee posted:No one has ever thrown something with GPS into it? Doesn't work underground, breaks easily.
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CommunistPancake posted:On both the geology and unsolved mysteries topics, where do you guys think Devil's Kettle heads to? Not sure I can really answer that, I'm not really familiar with cave systems that have developed in volcanic rocks like that. At first glance I'd say it's not likely for debris to accumulate in the hole anyway, since potholes like that are gigantic rock tumblers. Anything that falls in will quickly get ground down into bits that can flow out through cracks. Looking at a couple youtube videos, it doesn't look like a lot of debris ends up in there normally. So my guess would be the same as Leperflesh's, it's probably running through cracks in the rock and gradually rejoining the river downstream. Dye tracing wouldn't turn up anything if a single dye dump is gradually diffusing back into the river. The best way to test that idea would be perform multiple big fluorescent dye dumps during the day, and then look at the river with a handheld blacklight during the night to see if the water is glowing downstream. If that doesn't work, I think it'd be time to send in a kamikaze cave diver.
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Any particular reason wingsuits aren't based on flying mammals that actually fly well? With carbon fiber composite "fingers" you should easily be able to double the wingspan and bring glide speed down to something must less retarded than the flying-squirrel suits. Or is falling "fast and slightly forward" the preferred mode for thrillseekers?
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May 22, 2015 03:21
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I Greyhound posted:Any particular reason wingsuits aren't based on flying mammals that actually fly well?
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May 22, 2015 03:26
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I Greyhound posted:Any particular reason wingsuits aren't based on flying mammals that actually fly well? Wing suits seem to be more modeled after flying squirrels where the idea isnt to fly but to have a controlled glide
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I think the idea of a wing suit is to jump out of a plane and be able to fly around before pulling the chute. Not to skim 6 feet above the ground like an idiot.
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This might be of interest to people, I've posted it in the hiking thread before. Parks Canada posts accident reports for all major incidents in the Canadian Rockies National Parks, in hopes that it's used as a tool for people to learn from others' mistakes and accidents. They range from really experienced people who just encounter bad luck/nature just being nature, to extreme idiots completely out of their league. They go back to 2010. http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/mtn/securiteenmontagne-mountainsafety/accidents.aspx For the August 13 2011 Mt. Aberdeen incident, I was actually at the staging area for the helicopter while preparing for a scramble, so I filmed the helicopter. Sorry for my dumb hoser accent. http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/mtn/securiteenmontagne-mountainsafety/accidents/2011/08-2011.aspx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DtmMQ7UOMY And here's a really cool video of a technical rescue of a climber who had been hit by rockfall. It's the same helicopter team that performed my rescue, but I wasn't in a national park so it was a different ground team and agency. (My incident is not included in the above lists because of that) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7_4n_4Qhu4
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I Greyhound posted:Any particular reason wingsuits aren't based on flying mammals that actually fly well? Oh poo poo. Call it all in folks, this guy figured it all out, the perfect design. (I kid I kid)
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Picnic Princess posted:This might be of interest to people, I've posted it in the hiking thread before. Those incident reports are grimly fascinating, thank you. I think accidents when climbers have like just simple bad luck get especially terrifying  Rockfall accident, Mount Geikie, Mount Robson Provincial Park, Aug 15 2012 posted:On August 15th 2012, an experienced climbing party of four were climbing the S face of Mount Giekie. This is a remote alpine style rock climb located at the western portion of the Rampart Mountains in Tonquin Valley. The parties were climbing in 2 rope teams staying in close proximity to each other. At approximately 10a.m., one of the climbers was leading a 5.4 pitch when the 1/2 car size block he was standing on released causing him to fall along with it. Tumbling with the large rock, he fell 20m before his belayer caught him just as he hit a ledge with the large rock. The rock exploded spreading shrapnel. This ledge was adjacent to the second party. The belayer was hit by rock fall, injuring him and forcing him off the ledge.
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Professor of Cats posted:Oh poo poo. Call it all in folks, this guy figured it all out, the perfect design. 
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"heli-slung off the face"? What does that mean?
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midnightclimax posted:"heli-slung off the face"? What does that mean? It's what they do in that second video picnic princess posted
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gently caress. I had a dream last night that I was climbing Mount Everest, and as extreme altitude sickness set in I got convinced that we were all going to die. I turned back at 27.4K feet while the rest of my team went on, and I waited nervously in some Nepalese until the rest of them arrived, having summited safely. I dreamt of altitude sickness being a feeling of nausea and vertigo like I might fall sideways of the mountain, and an extreme tiredness like three days without sleep, while knowing that that falling asleep meant death. At the end of the dream, I went online and updated this thread on my team's success, where the mood went from "You're all going to die" to congratulatory and slightly disappointed that none of us died. My gooniness is even ruining my dreams.
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Good job on thinking straight on dream everest and not continuing on when doing so would have been dream dangerous. Was really counting on y'all losing a couple people for my dream death pool guess though.
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SaltLick posted:i am slightly disappointed you didnt die on dream everest But if that happened, they would have died in real life  Edit: if that happened, would it have counted for the death pool?
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I was talking to my brother about Everest and the stuff I read in this thread in general, and he was of the mentality that "anyone can climb everest, it's more of a tough hike and less of a climb". I explained that that mentality is what gets a lot of people killed and he was all like "I could probably make it" it's so strange how little respect people have for climbing literally the tallest point on the earth. They assume it's all gear and equipment and nothing more.
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Madcosby posted:I was talking to my brother about Everest and the stuff I read in this thread in general, and he was of the mentality that "anyone can climb everest, it's more of a tough hike and less of a climb". I explained that that mentality is what gets a lot of people killed and he was all like "I could probably make it" Unless your brother has some kind of pre-existing physical ailment, he probably could make it. What he doesn't understand is that most of the odds against him have to do with random chance - of getting HAPE or HACE, or getting wiped out by an avalanche or earthquake, or some other simple but lethal accident. The only part that'd nominally be up to him is his willingness to turn back and not summit. But even that willingness is heavily compromised by the oxygen deprivation, so even that is at least somewhat up to chance.
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Madcosby posted:I was talking to my brother about Everest and the stuff I read in this thread in general, and he was of the mentality that "anyone can climb everest, it's more of a tough hike and less of a climb". I explained that that mentality is what gets a lot of people killed and he was all like "I could probably make it" It's like whenever I go to the zoo and my guy friends tell me they could win a fight with one of the bears.
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Some dipshit is going to waltz in and be like "black bear or brown bear?" Look, turd bowl, but unless you're timber blood, it doesn't matter, a black bear could bum your dumb gut.
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Picnic Princess posted:Sorry for my dumb hoser poo poo man, your accent is so  I will only ever be able imagine you as the Canadian Hitler from this moment on.
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Pick posted:Some dipshit is going to waltz in and be like "black bear or brown bear?" Yeah, people tend to forget we're complete wusses pound for pound compared to every other large mammal that is not a domesticated sheep. People who understand that invented weapons 
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