When I was younger and stupid I decided to find fresh tracks off the main path with a buddy. I was in front and eventually decide to stop and look at the map to see when to cross back to a lift.
While sitting in the snow and looking at my map, the wind caught my map and it flew out of my hands and down the mountain. I watch this map fly down the flat face of the mountain and back up. It was then I realized that I was about 10ish feet before a cliff drop. My buddy was about to fly past me when I waved him to stop and he stopped even closer to the edge.
It took us 2 hours to claw and climb back up the hill were we came from. We went back down the hill and rested for that day.
Don’t stray from the groom runs.
I fucking hate that apparently it’s necessary to add a countdown to keep people’s attention for more than two seconds and I have ADHD.
Same, and I’m not well-versed into the neurology of it all but I think it’s something way worse than the symptoms of ADHD.
Five seconds is well within my attention span. I forget everything the minute I open a door or open a new tab, but this ain’t that. I can watch something in silence, my brain distracts itself, that’s kind of the whole problem. This though? This is about promising an impending dopamine hit to a restless junkie who was about to scroll down for a quicker hit.
No, scratch that. This is about the video editor constructing a strawman of that restless junkie, pandering to that, followed by a (proto-)fascist algorithm eeking out every last bit of video retention from its users for maximum profit. Even if 95 % of users don’t actually need the countdown to keep watching, and the 5 % remaining really should not be using that app for their mental well-being, the algorithm will mercilessly incentivize creators to put in the countdown.
Since legislating algorithmic attention-hoarding doesn’t sem likely to hit the political docket anytime soon, the only winning move is not to play.
Holy wall of text batman
Same here, I thought “if something screams tiktok, than this”
Came here to complain about this not being a shitpost, then I saw the brown snow 😐
I would have absolutely soiled myself.
That seems like a good reason not to go skiing there.
Or you can just stick to the marked runs. Off-piste skiing is always more dangerous.
But that would require at least a couple of functioning brain cells.
this is how my parents used to go to school
Mine had to go uphill
Mine had it uphill both ways…
Mine also said it was raining.
And why classes were a lot smaller in those days
Hoooooolyyyyyyyy fuck that is a 10/10 code brown 😱
Yeesh! Pretty sure this is why you’re supposed to stay on trails.
Anyone else notice how brown the snow was after home landed.
Never seen someone shit themselves so hard.
Small drones can prevent issues like this.
Not being a fucking moron and skiing in places like this prevents issues like this.
Love how he was like “oh shit a random crevasse that I almost fell down and died in! Well, surely there won’t be any more”
Fr he asking for it.
If y’all want some sound with that:
catbox.moe/9tdwjo.mp4Keep your eyes open, or… don’t ski on a fucking glacier??
Darwin Award Nominee
Apart from “Darwin Award” being pseudo-scientific and eugenicist-adjacent: Skiing is considered “Darwin Award” worthy, now? O.o
I’d rather be out here letting other people convince themselves that they can see the future and letting them live in blissful righteousness than ever end up with any kind of Herman Cain style award where you have no clue about what is right or true, you just end up dying from parroting misinformation that you ended up wholeheartedly believing, then falling victim to your own bogus beliefs that you end up convincing yourself of, about yourself, or those around you, or other parts your relationship with your own environment and with nature. You could end up ignoring parts of yourself, or forgetting how to listen to what you know from intrinsic/intuitive reasoning but that you might not be able to expect yourself to be ready to easily explain yourself to others in every scenario you may encounter (in some cases people you encounter may hold strong attachments to the expectation of being able to find out (as many) broad understandings (as they can) about those around them in their personal lives/who they care about, who may end up, in some impromptu seeming instances, be primed to question decisions that they can perceive are [possibly] being made [by you] which they feel that they surely do not fully understand, but that they might wish to control the extent to which your decisions may end up affecting them (or, in some situations, simply their control over their relationship with you, to help themselves along their path, disregarding any aspect of your own identity, remembering details only in-so-far as it pertains to them and their wants/needs/desires which they may be inclined to rely upon or expect, should any such situation of reliance ever happen to arise). I think it is valuable to separate out those who are truly wishing me the best in all instances throughout the rest of my conscience experience, and those who may have an anxiety condition that they are not necessarily showing promising signs of being able to handle well (when deciding how much care or reassurances are required to slough at people when they start getting antsy about the concept of falling on the floor and dying at any moment being well above a zero percent chance for all of us at any moment, no matter what we might be able to do to see our demise coming or prepare accordingly for ensuring any and all possible long term prosperous futures for ourselves [and/or as many peoples’ as possible] by all of our actions in every moment throughout our whole chaotic and absurd sensations and the perceptions gleaned across our personal memories of our experiences falling continuously through spacetime
I’m sorry… what? O.o
It should. And this ain’t skiing. This is skiing in unknown unmaintained and unsafe terrain.
And this ain’t skiing.
Sorry to be so blunt. But you’re either very dumb or you have no idea about alpine skiing.
And I need to reiterate that the Darwin award is pseudoscientific and eugenicist-adjacent.
Yes. But is ice skating skating?
Skiing is usually used to refer to skiing on maintained ski areas downhill or cross country skiing.
Doing it on foreign terrain which you clearly don’t know well enough and at speed is leaving the bounds of regular skiing.
Skiing is usually used to refer to skiing on maintained ski areas downhill or cross country skiing.
No true scotsman fallacy. Also, you’re pulling the “is usually used to refer” out of your ass.
Ski mountaineering is more like skiing than cross-country skiing. It’s quite common in the alps to do that and you almost never go on prepared tracks. The mountain where I spent my teenage winters after school doesn’t even really have an official, prepared track for about 75% of the skiing terrain, because it’s too steep.
As I said: you have no idea.
Doing it on foreign terrain which you clearly don’t know well enough and at speed is leaving the bounds of regular skiing.
I ain’t saying it was smart. But it’s not “extreme”.
Edit:
Sorry, you weren’t the person who called thir “extreme”. But still: Basing whether or not something is considered as “skiing” on how well you know the terrain (they could have gone down that mountain for 20 times already, for all you know, since crevaces like can form after you’ve made yourself familiar with the terrain), or how fast you do so is just dumb. When does it stop being “skiing”? At 20km/h? At 35 km/h? 27.5?
idiotic suicidal extreme sport like this is, definitely
this wouldn’t happen when prepared adequately and behaved appropriately
this wouldn’t happen when prepared adequately and behaved appropriately
I agree. But this is hardly extreme skiing.
If this qualified for your stupid “haha, someone who ‘deserved it’ died” award, then you could give that out to 80% of people staying in a hut in the alps.
nope. this is off track extreme stuff (probably dropped off with a helicopter) and has nothing to do with regular alpinism
It’s way more likely to be ski mountaineering. It’s quite common in the alps and you almost never go on prepared tracks when you do.
If that’s “extreme”, then Austria is full of extreme sports folks.
no
if you walk up a hill you remember the death cliffs you pass
ffs 🙄
You don’t have to go down the same way you came up.
Why don’t you just shut up about stuff you have no idea about.
Edit: Ski mountaneering being way more likely is simple statistics: since way more people are mountaineering than taking the helicopter, it’s just more likely that this skier was mountaineering.
Brown snow checks out
The guy doesn’t have a guardian angel. He has a platoon of guardian angels working in shifts 24/7/365.
