I mean I don’t know if I’ve climbed any mountains but I’ve walked and run (when I was young and hyperactive) up a few really cool ones. Mountains are nice.
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AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Do not equate mountain climbing and cave diving. One is a nice hobby if done safely and the other is total madness.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The fact that I can’t tell which one you prefer is fantastic.
I think they’re both insanity.
Rock climbing is cool though.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You think rock climbing is cool but can’t tell which out of cave diving and mountain climbing is insanity?
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Correct.
Rock climbing is super low risk. Especially if you do it indoors.
Mountain climbing and cave diving have so many factors outside your control it might as well be flipping a few coins and if they all come up heads, you die. At least in more controlled environments, even if that environment is still outside but in a well used rock climbing spot, your chances of death and/or dismemberment are much lower.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Mountain climbing” is so generic. I’ve climbed plenty of mountains. Half of them were a nice, leisurely 1-3 hour hike requiring nothing more than a free afternoon, a water bottle and a day pack with a couple snacks.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Every public crag sign and responsible gym will tell you that climbing is an inherently dangerous sport. We’ve had people die at the very “safe” gyms here.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Listen man, I did bouldering. For fitness. Any time people were talking about doing that shit outside, I noped the fuck away.
Because of this :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lvoS4H9wR0
Fucking no. I’m not going to the outside where the holds might be wet, fall off, and cause me injury fucking up my training regimen.
I mean, I’m old and my back is fucked up, so I’m not doing it anyway, but I wasn’t back then neither.
lps2@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Outside is where it’s at - indoor is a good workout but hard to call it rock climbing rather just a rough facsimile of it. Being out in nature, cracking a beer and/or hitting the pen, and climbing is on a completely different level from the gym. It’s still super safe assuming you’re doing sport and the accidents like the one you quoted are rare. Driving to the gym or crag is far more dangerous
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope. Excuse me while I jump out of this perfectly good plane.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s what you get for flying in the first place. Those things go down!
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Spoiler : it’s the cave diving.
I would love to do cave diving. Except every time you hear about an accident, it’s usually some experienced diver who fucked up just a little bit and that meant death… And then like another 1 or 2 people die trying to recover the body.
Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Idk, pretty much all the deaths I hear about are open water divers who decided to go into a cave, ignoring the part of their training where someone shouts at them for an hour to never even think about going in a cave even a teeny little bit, no not even just the entrance, no not even just to look.
Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Rock climbing is very cool—agree