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

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

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

― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin)

I hiked in Peru when I was 15 too ; )

― velko, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:29 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark

; )

MatthewK, thank you for getting my dumb, rather pointless biology joke.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/6d6fc2252a60cae0bb0c8f6900808f00/tumblr_o05kgpRHcu1rznn4wo1_1280.jpg

okay lol

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

darwin awards was so 2003

Mourning in America - Trump Year One: November '16 to

is that a hot spring you're trying to get us to click on and fall in

Got to be honest, this thread has been curiously calming to me.

<3

like a warm bath

^____^

Also prompted me to read about the Dyatlov Pass Incident again, featuring one of my favourite weird things that humans do, namely paradoxical undressing in hypothermia.

Thank you. I'd forgotten about that one.

When I am experiencing panic or anxiety, the survival stories in this book always calm me down:

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Survival-Who-Lives-Dies/dp/0393326152

Consequently I've read it dozens of times, at least some chapters. I'm not sure why. It's way outside the categories of my normal reading.

emil.y otm re dyatlov pass

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

At 85 degrees, those freezing to death, in a strange, anguished paroxysm, often rip off their clothes. This phenomenon, known as paradoxical undressing, is common enough that urban hypothermia victims are sometimes initially diagnosed as victims of sexual assault. Though researchers are uncertain of the cause, the most logical explanation is that shortly before loss of consciousness, the constricted blood vessels near the body's surface suddenly dilate and produce a sensation of extreme heat against the skin.

All you know is that you're burning. You claw off your shell and pile sweater and fling them away.

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