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Name a more dangerous sport/profession/hobby

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 23:45:19 No.1031172 View View Reply Original Report

Free solo climbing is by far the most dangerous thing you can do in this life. It's stupidly dangerous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 23:48:58 No.1031176 Report

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>>1031172
slacklining without the safety line

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 23:50:28 No.1031180 Report

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>>1031176
i'm assuming you mean over dangerous routes? that may be close, but when you fall you can at least try and catch the slack line, climbing is you fall you die

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 00:58:02 No.1031219 Report

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>>1031172
>Free solo climbing is by far the most dangerous thing you can do in this life. It's stupidly dangerous.

Maybe if you are just random normie, alex honnold is one of, if not the best, climbers in the world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:00:00 No.1031222 Report

Quoted By: >>1031236 >>1031291 >>1033288

>>1031219
Do you think top performers in super niche hobbies get puss? That norwegian chess autist is dating a supermodel, but chess is a relatively large domain

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:06:59 No.1031226 Report

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>>1031172
Naked polar bear wrestling in an arena full of land-mines.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:08:39 No.1031230 Report

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Brazilian train surfing
Shark rodeo

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:24:21 No.1031236 Report

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>>1031222
Having been at the same wall as Honnold a couple of times, there were several people there trying to chat him up once he wrapped up for the day, including hot /out/ types chicks. Any time anyone sees him on a climb word gets out and people show up to watch.

No doubt he could pick one on any given day give her a cocktour of his bus-home.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:34:04 No.1031239 Report

Quoted By: >>1031242 >>1031269

>>1031172
>Name a more dangerous profession

Delivery truck driver.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:34:35 No.1031240 Report

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>>1031236
he also wears what looks like costco brand plaid polo t-shirts so i get the impression that he does it because he likes it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:38:20 No.1031242 Report

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>>1031239
Que? Pls explain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:42:09 No.1031244 Report

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>>1031236
Nice

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 02:35:40 No.1031266 Report

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>>1031172
I thought base jumping was more dangerous
Show me the numbers, or this is an anecdotal waste of a thread and OP is a giant bundle of sticks

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 02:38:48 No.1031269 Report

Quoted By: >>1031272 >>1031773

>>1031239
how about motherhood. Moms: The real soldiers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 02:41:52 No.1031272 Report

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>>1031269
That's true! 100 percent of mothers die after giving birth!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 02:43:05 No.1031274 Report

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>>1031266
http://base-jumping.eu/base-jumping-fatality-list/
https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-die-rock-climbing-each-year-Are-there-any-particular-causes-for-this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 03:03:16 No.1031291 Report

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>>1031222
What do you think? Of course he fucks sweet pussy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 03:06:18 No.1031294 Report

Quoted By: >>1031305 >>1031383 >>1031769

>>1031274
Thanks dude
So 25 basejumpers died in 2016 worldwide and 26 climbers died in the US and Canada in 2013
Looking for a more detailed, per capita, year for year analysis comparing the two though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 03:20:25 No.1031305 Report

Quoted By: >>1031332

>>1031294
per capita would be pretty hard to say, i'd say more amateurs 'free solo' because it doesn't take any gear and are more inclined to fail at it. If you're base jumping, you've already got the gear and probably some experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 03:26:31 No.1031310 Report

Quoted By: >>1032520

>>1031291
he has a gf. he used to just hook up with random girls he met through climbing. and there are a ton of hot girls who climb, with amazing bodies

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 03:47:47 No.1031332 Report

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>>1031305
You're right
We are talking about such a small sample, it's hard to get data on this and make generalizations

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 03:55:53 No.1031338 Report

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Mesoamerican ballgame

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 04:17:52 No.1031351 Report

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>>1031172
Wingsuit cliff diving
Someone else post the videos im too busy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 04:34:08 No.1031360 Report

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Scuba diving, particularly in caves or other closed spaces.

Not sure if it is more dangerous by the numbers, but definitely a worse way to die.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 05:01:06 No.1031373 Report

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Alex is a fucking god.
I was living in Yosemite for the last year and got to hear crazy stories all the time about him doing shit around the park.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 05:03:48 No.1031375 Report

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>>1031172
this comes to mind

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298970/Kyle-Lee-Stocking-Utah-man-22-accidentally-jumps-death-rope-swing-stunt-famous-YouTube.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 05:33:38 No.1031383 Report

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>>1031294
How many, if any, of those climbers died free soloing? I bet most was repelling accidents or other basic mistakes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 08:34:24 No.1031439 Report

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>>1031172
How do these "outdoor bums" find the time to shave their chests and stomachs so smoothly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 08:49:04 No.1031443 Report

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>>1031219
yeah true, and listen to the podcast he did with joe rogan, he said that he only take calculated risk

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 09:18:22 No.1031450 Report

Quoted By: >>1040444

I'd feel comfortable saying that more people have died cleaning windows than free soloing in the last 50 years. So window cleaning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 11:45:47 No.1031500 Report

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>>1031172
You've already summoned the retards saying less people have died doing (x) without considering the population of each activity respectively so might as well consider the thread over. It will only devolve from here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 16:27:23 No.1031648 Report

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>>1031172
Assistant Crack Whore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 19:43:05 No.1031769 Report

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>>1031294
A ton more people climb than base jump, 7.2 million climbers in the us (source: a guy who works at the access fund who I met in Bishop recently), so that fact combined with your numbers means base jumping is WAY MORE DANGEROUS. Another statistic I've heard for base jumping is one death per 600 jumps, which to me is a crazy high risk. I'm a climber, that's my perspective. Never done any really intense soloing, little highball bouldering.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 19:45:03 No.1031771 Report

Quoted By: >>1031886

>>1031172
>>>1031172
>How do these "outdoor bums" find the time to shave their chests and stomachs so smoothly?
We tend to be the hairless type.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 19:50:47 No.1031772 Report

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>>1031172
I used to freesolo a lot as a teenager.
I climbed flatirons 1,2, and 5 in boulder CO without a rope. Pretty easy stuff.
I also did a 5.11 in Coal creek canyon that i had never done before. I wasent in a very good headspace before the attempt. It was basically suicidal. IF I fell I wouldn't really care too much.

Did my last free solo at age 16. Now I just boulder because I have nobody to climb with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 19:53:38 No.1031773 Report

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>>1031242
>>1031269
https://www.trucks.com/2016/12/19/truck-driver-deadliest-job/

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=87825

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/pf/jobs/1108/gallery.dangerous_jobs/9.html

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/delivering-pizza-is-one-of-the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america

https://www.pizzamarketplace.com/news/pizza-delivery-driver-fifth-of-10-most-dangerous-jobs/

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5933246/why-truck-driving-is-one-of-the-most-unhealthy-jobs-in-america

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 20:08:32 No.1031777 Report

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>>1031242
>Que? Pls explain.

Niggers

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 20:18:46 No.1031786 Report

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>>1031351
This sort of thing? Probably, yeah.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 20:44:46 No.1031808 Report

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I dunno if you're right OP; I bet you there are more deaths per capita base jumping than there are free soloing. Freeclimbers don't fuck around.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 21:27:44 No.1031834 Report

Quoted By: >>1031887 >>1031976 >>1032013

Riding a bicycle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 22:12:09 No.1031881 Report

Quoted By: >>1031888

>>1031172
How about being a news reporter in Mexico

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 22:16:16 No.1031884 Report

Quoted By: >>1031935 >>1032724

>>1031383
i doubt more people died in repelling accidents than they did falling off the wall while climbing

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 22:19:12 No.1031886 Report

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>>1031771
Hairless?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 22:20:14 No.1031887 Report

Quoted By: >>1032013

>>1031834
cyclists deserve to be hit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 22:20:21 No.1031888 Report

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>>1031881
why not say police officer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 23:15:36 No.1031935 Report

Quoted By: >>1032731

>>1031884
Repelling is how the vast majority of climbers get hurt or killed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 23:42:31 No.1031949 Report

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>>1031172
look at those sausage fingers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 00:07:14 No.1031976 Report

Quoted By: >>1032294

>>1031834
>no helmet
You deserved it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 00:47:49 No.1032013 Report

Quoted By: >>1032294

>>1031834
>>1031887
Most of the places people ride bicycles are actually illegal for bicycles. Like the highway here has signs up at every intersection, "no pedestrians; no cyclists". Yet, there's always a pack of cycle tards taking up half the lane and the cops simply do not give a shit about them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 02:01:09 No.1032058 Report

Quoted By: >>1035174

>>1031886
Maybe facial hair but body hair tends to be minimal. Also I live in a van and manage to shave everything on the regular. Not a fan of hair anywhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 03:05:22 No.1032088 Report

Quoted By: >>1032223 >>1032499

>trespassing to do "parkour" on top of high rise buildings, cranes, etc.
>there's statistically more injuries and fatalities climbing glaciers and frozen waterfalls with gear than free climbing rocks/mountains
>wing walking on stunt airplanes
>rough rapids/waterfall kayaking

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 03:10:44 No.1032091 Report

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>>1031172
being a cis white male in one of the richest nations on earth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 10:01:19 No.1032223 Report

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>>1032088
>trespassing to do "parkour" on top of high rise buildings, cranes, etc.

barely anyone actually does this outside of youtube, 98% of people training stay at street level.

The rest is 1% urbex and 1% russians.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 10:10:30 No.1032226 Report

Quoted By: >>1032246 >>1035389

Solo parachuteless skydiving is moderately dangerous

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 10:53:53 No.1032246 Report

Quoted By: >>1035389 >>1039404

>>1032226
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qF_fzEI4wU

...It's been done, apparently.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 11:14:56 No.1032249 Report

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>>1031172
i wonder what his shoes smell like

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 13:17:41 No.1032294 Report

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>>1032013
No not really. Usually Interstates are illegal for cyclists, but only if there's no suitable alternative. I'm guessing you're talking about inner city highways, not too sure who would want to ride a bicycle on those. Feel free to run them over because they give cycling a bad name.
>>1031976
A helmet wont do much good protecting you against a 4000 lb suv??

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 19:52:22 No.1032499 Report

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>>1032088
>trespassing to do "parkour" on top of high rise buildings, cranes, etc.
These people don't actually die that often though

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 20:19:55 No.1032520 Report

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>>1031310
>he used to just hook up with random girls he met through climbing. and there are a ton of hot girls who climb, with amazing bodies
sweatingguy.jpg

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:11:27 No.1032724 Report

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>>1031884
Thanks for pointing out your ignorance of climbing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:21:15 No.1032731 Report

Quoted By: >>1032871 >>1033173

>>1031935
why is that?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 00:33:19 No.1032742 Report

Quoted By: >>1032871

>>1031172
I guarantee Bear Wrestling has a much higher mortality rate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 02:50:58 No.1032871 Report

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>>1032731
Probably because more people repel than free climb. Also, there is more perceived risk with free climbing so that people that do it will either be amazing climbers or more cautious than the average person repelling.

>>1032742
Look at this pussy who can't wrestle burrs

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 03:22:11 No.1032894 Report

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>>1031172
Probably motorcycling in the US in any urban setting. At least with free climbing, it's as safe as you are skilled. But with motorcycling, your life is in the hands of the mentally ill pill poppers that scourge the country.
Maybe they'll plow you from behind at a stoplight while looking at their phone, but more than likely they'll murder you with their car on account of their narcissism and uncontrollable tantrums.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 05:57:49 No.1032976 Report

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>>1031172

Underwater caving probably doesn't cause that many fatalities, but it has all the dangers of caving and scuba diving combined. Sounds like some scary shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 14:50:32 No.1033173 Report

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>>1032731
It's most dangerous for a number of reasons. You're belaying yourself, not someone else so if you hit your head you're fucked. People forget to knot the rope ends and rap off them. People screw up and don't put themselves on rap before the belayer takes them off belaying and they fall. There's a bunch of things that can go wrong between the time you get to anchor and when you get to the ground. When you're climbing there's two people looking out for you, yourself and your belayer. When you're rappelling, it's just you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 18:32:08 No.1033288 Report

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>>1031222
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1jwwagtaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdCmUDnTpc

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Jun 2017 15:39:23 No.1035172 Report

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>>1031439
It's apparently important to them to deny their manliness

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Jun 2017 15:40:26 No.1035174 Report

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>>1032058
fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 10 Jun 2017 21:08:40 No.1035389 Report

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>>1032226
>>1032246
0% mortality rate

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Jun 2017 05:29:53 No.1035787 Report

Quoted By: >>1037976 >>1039400 >>1041226

Hey /out/, so I've been bouldering for about 2 years at my local rock gym. They also have some nice top rope walls. I have no problem with heights, but I am worried about the condition of the ropes there. A gym in my state just shut down because a kid got paralyzed when a rope snapped. I checked what I could at my gym condition wise and the ropes look ok. The top rope is just on a chain on a carabiner attached to the ceiling. It looks pretty shady.

There are no pads underneath the high walls, it's concrete (for whatever fucking reason.) I just don't feel confident in their equipment. Whenever I climb I use my own shit that I know is in perfect condition. I have no idea if they have been using the same ropes for years. I have no idea if there is any damage to their ropes. Anyone else deal with something like this? Is it worth risking being paralyzed by using their shady equipment?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Jun 2017 11:52:51 No.1037976 Report

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>>1035787
can't you just lead climb

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2017 04:02:38 No.1039251 Report

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>>1031172
polar bear tipping. an incredibly stupid idea but god damn is it ever fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2017 11:42:26 No.1039400 Report

Quoted By: >>1040796

>>1035787
can't you talk to the dudes who run the place ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2017 11:58:47 No.1039404 Report

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>>1032246
>helmet
I don't think that's gonna save you m8

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2017 13:57:15 No.1039462 Report

Quoted By: >>1040456

>>1031172
Combat Soldier

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Jun 2017 22:17:06 No.1039762 Report

Quoted By: >>1040501

Is there a way to get good at climbing if you're not built for it? Everyone I've seen who's skilled at climbing is lanky and I think I'm just too stocky. I'm not fat or anything but I could definitely put on more muscle than I have.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2017 03:35:52 No.1039886 Report

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driving

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Jun 2017 07:57:35 No.1039942 Report

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How has no one mentioned freediving/skindiving? It's just purposefully playing chicken with death. The only way you could possibly make it more dangerous would be to free dive a cave or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 04:49:01 No.1040444 Report

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>>1031450
But how about ladder climbing in general.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 05:23:08 No.1040456 Report

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>>1039462
> Illiterate goat farmer aiming from 50+ yards away

> the immutable law of gravity from 50+ feet up

The latter is probably more consistently going to kill you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 09:44:14 No.1040501 Report

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>>1039762
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=alex+megos
he's a manlet compared to the other greats, not sure about stocky climbers though, there are some bulkier guys out there

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 13:19:52 No.1040573 Report

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Lava juggling can be pretty risky...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 13:21:03 No.1040575 Report

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>>1031226
You don't need a polar bear, don't need to wrestle anything nor to be naked.

You only need to go /out/ in Bosnia where during 2014 the major floods and landslides unearthed and scattered the landmines from known minefields in new and interesting places.

http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/222099905/landmines-unearthed-by-shifting-mud-in-flooded-balkans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine_contamination_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 14:57:20 No.1040637 Report

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>>1031172
Abandoned mine exploration

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Jun 2017 19:08:30 No.1040796 Report

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>>1039400
B-but they might tell me their ropes are 100% good to go and that doesnt fit with my paranoia so i cant talk to them about it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Jun 2017 07:02:23 No.1041226 Report

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>>1035787
>gym in my state just shut down because a kid got paralyzed when a rope snapped
liar

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