jesus!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
it was this fearsome behemoth
https://trailwalker32.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/p1020296.jpg
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:42 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
yeah that's a nope
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
(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
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
sweet mother of mercy
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
too many other ppl above you you have no way of dodging, whose sure-footedness you have no way of judging :0
― mark s, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
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
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 21 November 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
I just instinctively retied my shoelaces while looking at the picture
― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
makes me think of Picnic at Hanging Rock
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Monday, 21 November 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
descending is always scarier than ascending steep trails, since forward momentum sends you out into the void rather than just against the slope
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
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, 21 November 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
― 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"
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
i've done it two times. once at age 15 and once at age 28, it was considerably more terrifying hiking it at 28.
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
i tolerate heights way less than i did in my teens.
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
you mean this staircase don't you marcos?
http://i.imgur.com/DS5RsOy.jpg
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
I just gave up any pretense of dignity and backed down that thing on all fours like it was a ladder.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
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?
― mh 😏, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
hahah otm
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
ha probably. when climbing i kept thinking about the likely huge number of people who died building those too
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
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
― 龜, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
I think even at 15 I would have noped my way back down the mountain
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
my hands and feet are sweaty just looking at my photos from that day tbh
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
can somebody please take donald j. trump on a walk of a geyser field?
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
the hairpiece would fetch a good sum on ebay i'm sure
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Y'all don't click on this now
https://youtu.be/RpXL_QaK17E
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
yesss the cigarette
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
nnnnnnggggaaaaahhhhh
― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
that is giving me the serious Fear
― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Crazy Russians Tower Climbing Compilation
^^^tom's warning probably applies here too
― mark s, Monday, 21 November 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvLIvnrTvU
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 November 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
Just makes me think of Klaus Kinski lurching about while Popol Vuh plays in the background.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
we need so many more people to die this way soon
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
lol xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
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?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link
I hiked in Peru when I was 15 too ; )
― velko, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
but natural selection is making them better and better and we're slowly evolving toward a supermule― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin)
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
― velko, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:29 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark
; )
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
MatthewK, thank you for getting my dumb, rather pointless biology joke.
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/6d6fc2252a60cae0bb0c8f6900808f00/tumblr_o05kgpRHcu1rznn4wo1_1280.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
okay lol
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
lol dayo
I get IA about people swimming when there are riptide warnings ffs; stuff like Yellowstone makes me despise humanity.
but on the upside maybe we have now reached the point, evolutionarily speaking, where we are self-culling
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link