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• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨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.

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The point is those sentiments you’re espousing invite risk. Every action is mitigation, not assumption of safety.

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    • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s nice, but I was saying it’s less dangerous, and not insane. Not that it’s not dangerous at all.

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨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

  On 7/29/17 a 300 lb rock landed on my leg from a height of 10 feet. Because the falling weight/force of the rock upon impact was over 3,000 lbs, I believe it had only an indirect, partial impact to my leg,

  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.

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  • lps2@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨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

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨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.

      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.

      Driving to the gym or crag is far more dangerous

      I walked there.

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      • lps2@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean yeah. I’ll 100% cop to being a faker

        That wasn’t my intention, rather just encouraging you and others to try climbing outside (with others who have experience)! It’s so much fun

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    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nope. Excuse me while I jump out of this perfectly good plane.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s what you get for flying in the first place. Those things go down!

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