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EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours agoThe fact that I can’t tell which one you prefer is fantastic.
I think they’re both insanity.
Rock climbing is cool though.
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.
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.
Rock climbing is very cool—agree
cattywampas@lemmy.world 22 hours 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 21 hours 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 13 hours 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.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Maybe it’s just me, but when someone says “mountain climbing” I assume actual climbing takea place.
Not a leisurely stroll on a hiking trail.
I think the fact that most people are acting as though they expect actual climbing as well is enough to say the general thought of mountain climbing is not to hike a trail to the top.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 hours 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.
msage@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Mostly when you fuck up.
Very, extremely rarely is it due to the equipment.
But you can die thousands of ways even inside your home.
Climbing if done responsively is safer than walking in some parts.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
That’s nice, but I was saying it’s less dangerous, and not insane. Not that it’s not dangerous at all.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 21 hours 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 17 hours 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
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I mean yeah. I’ll 100% cop to being a faker, I did it because it was a more fun gym, and I enjoyed solving puzzles with my body.
I walked there.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Nearly died on a drive home from a rock climbing trip where we did tons of fun and wild (but safe) stuff on ropes, there was a car stopped perpendicular across part of a dark empty interstate in the middle of the night that we passed at full speed.
Two carloads of people had a near-death butt pucker like nothing else we’d experienced on that trip (and no clue what was going on with that car, we were long gone by the time we recovered our wits and processed not being a mangled up paste of people). Your comment resonates with me cuz I understood driving that night, lmao. It’s wildly uncontrolled compared to rock climbing, with comparatively high risks of really bad outcomes in fully capricious ways. Can become a splat out of nowhere with barely a moment to consider the coming fact. Woof.
someguy3@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Nope. Excuse me while I jump out of this perfectly good plane.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
That’s what you get for flying in the first place. Those things go down!