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

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

yeah i would be super uneasy on that trail, i do a lot of hiking but not in places with that amount of vertical exposure

I just gave up any pretense of dignity and backed down that thing on all fours like it was a ladder.

do you ever get the impression that the people who originally lived in these places would be aghast that people are still walking on the eroded staircases instead of patching in better stones?

hahah otm

ha probably. when climbing i kept thinking about the likely huge number of people who died building those too

hiked a mountain in peru where there was a point i literally used a rope to swing between a gap in the trail - below was p much a sheer drop

thank god i was 15 and didn't realize how dangerous that was

I think even at 15 I would have noped my way back down the mountain

my hands and feet are sweaty just looking at my photos from that day tbh

there's a bunch of photos of me at the top of the mountain and im just sitting on the ground bc im too paralyzed to even stand up

can somebody please take donald j. trump on a walk of a geyser field?

the hairpiece would fetch a good sum on ebay i'm sure

man these pics... shudder. i had labyrinthitis about 11 or 12 years ago and it tends to stick around in some form, i've had a real problem with heights since. i was in the top tier at the nou camp a few years ago and i was paralysed by fear and couldn't enjoy the game, managed to sneak down to an empty low seat at half-time.

I've always had problems with heights and even working on tower scaffolds and scissor lifts for over a decade never really cured it. Fucking love terra firma, man.

Once I was told not to leave site until I had got a chandelier cable to the apex of a church dome before the painters came in that weekend. it involved going up an illegal tower scaffold built onto the top of a big scaffolding structure with lots jutting steel poles that would skewer you if fell. One of the painters felt sorry for me and said gimme your drill I'll do it. He did an absolute abortion of a job, fucking etch-a-sketch type wiring. I told him thanks but it was fucking dog rough and I'll probably get pumped for this on Monday, but at least I'm alive!
He said "wait until it has been painted, you won't notice it". When I returned on monday it still looked fucking pez with a layer of paint and I got a massive fucking and it actually ruined my reputation at that company. But I'm still glad I didn't do it.

Y'all don't click on this now

https://youtu.be/RpXL_QaK17E

yesss the cigarette

nnnnnnggggaaaaahhhhh

that is giving me the serious Fear

Crazy Russians Tower Climbing Compilation

^^^tom's warning probably applies here too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvLIvnrTvU

do you ever get the impression that the people who originally lived in these places would be aghast that people are still walking on the eroded staircases instead of patching in better stones?

Just makes me think of Klaus Kinski lurching about while Popol Vuh plays in the background.

we need so many more people to die this way soon

lol xp

heh, as I mentioned in one of the Popol Vuh threads, I forgot to put Aguirre on my phone so I had to listen to Seligpresung instead as I was climbing up Huayna Picchu. I think I also listened to the first Verve album?

I hiked in Peru when I was 15 too ; )

Not in the same ballpark as most of these but back when we went to the top of Sigiriya (15 years ago) none of the metalwork or barriers were there - if you look at e.g. 2:30 when he's point in back up the walkway you can see what the 'stairs' were like when we did it to the left of the tourists coming down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oC-qH64CQ