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I made it 1:45 into this video and was too freaked out to continue.

bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭

My heart is still pounding from what I saw!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04s5YivlVw

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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,432 ✭✭✭✭

    You just guaranteed that nobody will click it.

    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • notnownotnow Member Posts: 1,852 ✭✭✭

    I made it to the 1:00 mark. I want a parachute just to watch. It's bad enough as it is but then there's a whole bunch of people right there loading up weight on the walkway.

  • forgemonkeyforgemonkey Member Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭✭

    Hold my beer, and watch this !!

  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,680 ✭✭✭✭

    Yeah .... I'll take a hard pass.

    I never was that stupid even in my youth. Watching was scary enough.

    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,614 ✭✭✭✭

    You lasted longer than I did. I wouldn't go up on that mountain if you held a gun to my head.

  • SW0320SW0320 Member Posts: 2,519 ✭✭✭✭

    I did some cliff climbing in college, with the proper gear and caution I felt safe. The problem here is depending on other people and equipment you don't know.

    However I did found it worse than my first jump to get my sky diving certificate. At least there I had a main and reserve chute.

    When they open the door and you get the wind and engine noise and look down you have to really tell yourself to jump.

  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭✭

    Not just no, but hell no! I ain't that dumb but it sure seems like a lot of folk are. I loved the fact that one of the tips given was not to remove your harness, well duhh.😂 Bob

  • dunbarboyzdunbarboyz Member Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭✭

    Heights are not my thing.

  • slingerslinger Member Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭✭

    I like widths.

  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭✭

    No thank you. I'll pass. ----------------------Ray

  • waltermoewaltermoe Member Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭✭

    Stupid is as stupid does.

  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,489 ✭✭✭✭

    Never particularly afraid of heights but always knew I was too clumsy for that kind of stuff. Just not my thing ...but hey knock yourself out. We will scrape up the remains and donate any usable organs

    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,153 ******

    The steps would kill me long before I got to the plank part.

    " Never take your harness off." Ya think?

  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭✭

    Nope, but I have a friend that would love it

  • Bubba Jr.Bubba Jr. Member Posts: 8,304 ✭✭✭✭

    At the end, they said there was a skyline that went up the other side of the mountain, for the less adventurous.

    Joe

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,224 ✭✭✭✭

    Their is a younger Chinese youtuber who travels around to a lot of the dangerous trails and mountain paths in China of course

    I am sure this is one she may have covered she has shown a lot of lsuch paths and trailsans climbes them all the locals living on top and on the sides in ancient villages making the trips for goods and supplyfor generations the mountain vilages gave them protection

    Last few I watched she said a lot most all have moved into towns with the goverment helping with new housing and support and gave up after generations of living in such places

    Some scary trails and as for me no way I could even get started up such a trail i hate heights

    but to the thrill seakers have at at it

    no doubt some have had second thoughts for a few seconds as they fall to their death

  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭

    I went to the North Carolina Outward Bound taking the entire first month off of my junior year of High School, with school permission. It changed my life forever.

  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭✭

    Im sure Mike was there!

  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭

    That's a big no for me. When I was younger, I could quickly get over my fear of heights. These days, I can find something better to do with my time, money, and life than risk unnecessary death.

  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,723 ******

    There is an old wives tale that said "You will be dead of heart failure before you hit the ground" from a long fall.

    Pretty sure this myth has never been proven to be true.


    As for me, I fear falling from a standing position on level ground now days! 😁

  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,393 ✭✭✭✭
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,614 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2023

    There is something about being up high on a cliff's edge that just scares hell out of me.

    I often flew my hang glider at 2,000 feet above the ground, and that was quite comfortable for me. After all, when you are 2,000 feet high, you can't crash! You have to be in contact with the ground to crash.

  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,614 ✭✭✭✭

    I once lived in Colorado. My buddies were young guys like me, just out of college. We were driving around one day out in the country, there was a cliff next to the road, it was about 40 feet high. I am not going to say it was vertical but it was close. about 85 degrees. Bill pulled onto the shoulder and parked.

    Bill yelled out "Let's go bouldering! Ya wanna go bouldering Allen?"

    He explained that they were going to park right there and climb that cliff. "Bouldering"

    I said "Where's your spikes, and ropes and harnesses?"

    Bill said "No gear! That's why we call it bouldering."

    I looked at that cliff, I assessed it, if you got up 35 feet and slipped, you would fall all the way down and land on your head on the rocks. After all it was the Rocky Mountains.

    I said "We don't do bouldering in Georgia. Y'all are crazy as hell."

    I stood there for the next half hour, and watched the three young guys climb the cliff. They were agile young guys, each guy took a different route, and they all made it to the top without incident.

  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭✭

    Well, it certainly exercised my pucker string! I used to climb towers to do electrical repairs and change light bulbs, but that climb would be where I would draw the line.

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