Man who dissolved in boiling Yellowstone hot spring slipped while checking temperature to take bath

this is the most reassuring story i've read since the election

That strid thing is freaking me out! It looks so inviting!

(sorry, still on "what's on your iPod" because "I Melt With You" would also work)

The story about German tourists who died in Death Valley is a particularly grim example of this genre

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/

Dissolve Me by Alt-J
Being Boiled by Human League
Boiling Boy by Wire

silby I just wasted like an hour on that site thanks a lot

This is unrelated but I'm just going to use this thread to post remarkable sentences as well as remarkable wilderness deaths since I'm taking a Twitter break:

These starfish relatives need to make lots of sperm since they’re shooting it into the sea where it has to waft to a female.

via

i bet flip flops feature in a lot of these stories

Being Boiled by Human League

― hardcore dilettante, Friday, November 18, 2016 10:10 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

v first thing I thought when I read the story

Those giant books about deaths in the park they sell at various National Parks in the US (I have the Yosemite one) are really pretty great. Biggest danger in the wilderness turns out to be if you're a young male in it.

Susan Boyle

We were in Kauai last week and signs like that Hanakapiai one are all over the place at most of the beaches. We were staying with a friend who lives there, and he got really mad when we saw people at a few of the beaches blithely wandering into the surf -- his basic thing was, "I don't really care if tourists want to kill themselves, but they're endangering the lives of the lifeguards who are going to have to go try and rescue them."

Those giant books about deaths in the park they sell at various National Parks in the US (I have the Yosemite one) are really pretty great.

I read the Grand Canyon one, and promptly decided there was no fucking WAY I was going down there on a mule.

i wonder how many kids had a go at this
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/huwmJOXoVao/hqdefault.jpg

I should probably avoid all these parks. When I was a kid I was reading a sign warning pedestrians to be careful when crossing railroad out loud to my parents, only to look down and notice that my shoe was firmly wedged between the railroad track and the wooden sidewalk.

people who don't quite grasp how much momentum a train has is another perhaps more horrifying source of accidental death

xp you have to try pretty hard to kill/injure yourself in any national park, it's willful ignorance of rules and warnings that does it, not absent mindedness

my family still laughs at me for the train tracks think. pretty sure i had to take my foot out of the shoe in order to unwedge it.

I feel like the "people can't judge distance/speed and the concept of objects appearing further away than they actually are when viewed head-on" applies more to getting hit by trains. unless people are thinking that trains will stop for them, in which case... dang, dude

Not only ignoring the warning signs, but thinking that a boiling sulphur pool would make a good spa. xp

yeah i mean especially after dante's peak. ugh. horrible way to die, horrible to think about witnessing it and being unable to do anything.

boiling sulphur pool used to be something a coworker would cook for himself every day in the office. Thankfully, he switched to cooking applewood smoked bacon which is pretty much the polar opposite of smells in my book so things are much better.

One can avoid geyser fed hot springs. Its harder to avoid sidewalks, riding buses, or driving about.

Yang Erjing, Beijing Sidewalk Collapse Victim, Dies After Falling Into Scalding Pool Of Water

Being scalded to death is a particular risk in Russia:
Moscow Heating Pipes Create Lethal Traps

City officials acknowledge that Moscow has become a "minefield" and predict that without a sudden infusion of cash to repair the pipes, more people will die in the same grisly fashion.

"People will, I am afraid, keep falling in such pits in the future," said a spokeswoman for a city heating agency, Mosenergo.

​Screaming passengers flee bus from scalding jet of steam
Dozens of animals are boiled alive at Russian pet shop after heating pipe bursts and the store is flooded with scalding water
Bizarre moment cars plunge into sinkhole of boiling hot water after pipes burst and collapse road

yeah i mean especially after /dante's peak/. ugh. horrible way to die, horrible to think about witnessing it and being unable to do anything.

Old lady deciding to JUMP IN for no reason after pierce brosnan has already successfully rowed them to within an inch of dry land is definitely an inspiration to these people

hahaha i was actually thinking of the much earlier scene with the nameless nubile youth going for a sexy dip in the hot springs and then oh noooooooo

I read the Grand Canyon one, and promptly decided there was no fucking WAY I was going down there on a mule.

I think that's probably one of the safest activities you can do in the Grand Canyon. Mules know the trail better than any tourists do! And most of them don't drink.

Also, having hiked down the Mist Trail at Yosemite I'm frankly surprised people don't die every day trying to get down the trail next to Vernal Falls.

I suspect there are plenty of dumb mules . . . you can find their skeletons lying at the bottom of the canyon.

but natural selection is making them better and better and we're slowly evolving toward a supermule

In future dystopia mules ride you!

I almost fell off of the Coba pyramid, slipped down the stairs and not ultimately sure if it was me or someone else who stopped my fall (a guy grabbed my backpack but I'm not sure if that's what stopped me). I feel I'm probably not made for extreme outdoorsmanship, just a little too clumsy.

i tripped and tumbled down the side of a hill once when i was a child. there were a lot of rocks on the hillside but it was mainly just grass and mud. i narrowly missed a couple of the rocks and had probably travelled about 100 metres before coming to a stop.

jesus!

it was this fearsome behemoth

https://trailwalker32.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/p1020296.jpg

an older japanese tourist i passed while hiking huayna picchu in peru (it is the larger mountain next to machu picchu) later fell a few stories down the mountain that day

http://incatrail.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Huayna-Picchu-stairs.jpg

this is definitely the most terrifying hike i've ever done

yeah that's a nope

(not my photo, just posted it to share some of the pretty scary views you get while climbing)

descending it is way more terrifying btw

sweet mother of mercy

too many other ppl above you you have no way of dodging, whose sure-footedness you have no way of judging :0

that looks like the type of thing I would be 100% into climbing right up until I was actually in front of it and calculating the odds that I would trip on a shoelace

I just instinctively retied my shoelaces while looking at the picture

i still have actusal real nightmares abt clambering up this on a school geography trip, aged 11-ish, i.e. 45 years ago (it's stair hole in dorset):
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0d/37/89/4e/sliced-cut-like-a-cake.jpg

i climbed up to the top ridge tidily enough, then realised as i was climbing down that i had inadvertently positioned myself right over the tunnel-cave thing, so if i slipped i would probably fall into the sea -- which is not deep but this put me in a bit of an adrenalised panic, in a way just being on an interrupted steep rock slope had not… i got back to easier territory safely enough but i was shaking when i got to the ground

naturally no one had noticed my plight -- the other kids were clambering all over everywhere, the teacher was eating sandwiches and not paying attention, so mild side-eye to him tbh (also lol if we'd climbed right up and over the fence at top left, we'd be on MoD land, complete with mines and firing ranges and so on)

makes me think of Picnic at Hanging Rock

descending is always scarier than ascending steep trails, since forward momentum sends you out into the void rather than just against the slope

I think Huanya Picchu benefits from looking as dangerous as it is, so people are less inclined to fuck around like they do at Yosemite.

Less inclined, get it

yea ciderpress otm. at huayna picchu there were stretches where i just sat down on the steps and moved my ass down one step at a time

I think Huanya Picchu benefits from looking as dangerous as it is, so people are less inclined to fuck around like they do at Yosemite.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, November 21, 2016 3:56 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Less inclined, get it

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, November 21, 2016 3:56 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goes both ways tbh. the mountain has steps (carved and built by the incas) so that can be deceiving, people think "oh i can do that because im just walking up and down steps"

i've done it two times. once at age 15 and once at age 28, it was considerably more terrifying hiking it at 28.

i tolerate heights way less than i did in my teens.

you mean this staircase don't you marcos?

http://i.imgur.com/DS5RsOy.jpg

Was reading about Dyatlov Pass recently, after listening to this post-rockish concept album about it: https://open.spotify.com/album/2vYSKNZsE3R7pBbCFZKrOd

These students from the Dyatlov Pass incident would probably have been youngish or born during the '37-38 great terror, and then their formative period would have been the Barbarossa years. They were probably thinking no probs when they set off.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recollect-snow—first-chill—then-stupor—then-letting-go

This was great and terrifying, tempered slightly by the fact that I'm clueless about temperatures in Fahrenheit.

32° ... Just take off your clothes no matter what thermometer you're using.

lol

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4032438/Death-chocolate-Mother-two-dies-falling-vat-molten-confectionery-Russian-sweet-factory.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/31/death-yosemite-travel-blogging-couple-perishes-foot-fall-they-may-have-been-taking-pictures-relative-says/

More than 250 people have died worldwide in the last six years while taking selfies, according to a recent study from researchers in India published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.

... almost a third of them Indian, strangely enough.

turns out the guy reappeared but had magical powers