Mountain climbing looks fun ngl, cave-diving not so much.
I'm just a big toasty cinnamon bun that isn't fatally trapped in a crevice.
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Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
I used to climb E grades, you can’t pay me to squeeze in a cave though. Fuuuuck that.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Do not equate mountain climbing and cave diving. One is a nice hobby if done safely and the other is total madness.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours 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 18 hours ago
You think rock climbing is cool but can’t tell which out of cave diving and mountain climbing is insanity?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 13 hours 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.
Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 17 hours ago
Rock climbing is very cool—agree
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
There’s gotta be something wrong with these people.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
Mountain climbing is fun, fairly safe, and good for ya.
Rock climbing though? Yeah miss me with that shit.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
The safety depends entirely on what mountain you’re climbing, in what conditions, and with what gear.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
True, not talking about Everest. I was just thinking of my own experiences, which usually involve a path of some sort, kept or not. I’m not trying to go where no person has gone before.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I get disoriented going to the bathroom at night.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 15 hours ago
How
Godric@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No, I’m wired for underwater caves and crevasses
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Whaaaaaaat? But I just wanted to invite you to the infamous “get stuck here with a friend” cave! It would be so awesome, it would be so cool if you came!
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
You talking about the Nutty Putty Cave? I hate to break it to you, but they sealed the ‘get your body stuck upside’ part up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave
After rescuers concluded that it would be too dangerous to attempt to retrieve his body, the landowner and Jones’s family came to an agreement that the cave would be sealed, with the cave as his final resting place, and as a memorial to Jones. Explosives were used to collapse the ceiling in the Ed’s Push passageway of the cave close to where Jones’s body was. All entry points to the cave were permanently sealed by filling them with concrete, making the cave system inaccessible
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
They say previous divers’ corpse decayed so the Devil’s Sphincter is accessible again!
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Mountain climbing? Maybe.
Cave diving? Nope nope nope, fuck that. Fuck spelunking too if it involves more than crouching a little bit.
Ghostwurm@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
You know, when you’re spelunking and you see a tiny little crevice at the bottom and it’s dark and you’re like, wow, could I fit through there? Probably not. Or maybe I could go through, but I can’t get back. Let’s try.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Huur duurrrrrr
andros_rex@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The idea of a “silt out” cave diving is absolutely terrifying to me. That you can accidentally kick up some dust and then you’ll have no idea which way is up or down, that you’ll be flailing around in the water and won’t be able to see anything is nightmarish…
Rugnjr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
If you’re not suicidally stupid you’ll already be holding onto the rope leading to safety with plastic arrows attached every few feet pointing to the exit so you know which way along the rope is out. Never let go of the rope!
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The rope leads straight into a pile of boulders.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
For real. I’ve done some cave diving. I don’t regret it, because there is legit some cool shit that you couldn’t otherwise see. That said, there are caves I would dive again, and some I wouldn’t. You really just have to suppress the fact that you can’t swim straight up to the surface.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I get vertigo when I’m high up - ain’t no way I’m getting within like 2m of an exposed ledge. No sirree, the view is fine from back here thanks
Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I have an acquaintance that is into going cave diving in Florida. I’ve seen the pics and nope.
Mountain climbing and rappelling is a blast though. I’ll keep my rock climbing relegated to the fun indoor stuff with a good belay.
svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Sure, but have you considered sinkholes?
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
How I sleep listening to cave diving and mountain climbing disasters, knowing I’ll never do either one.
auzy1@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I actually sat during lunch with 2 mountaineering record holders when I did my mountaineering training with two record holders who spoke about all the fuckups they had and how one spent the night in a biouvac in a crevasse once and how terrible it was
Just what a guy doing his first mountaineering training needed to hear… That and on the first day of training you’re dumped in the middle of nowhere and told that everyone will fall in a crevasse during the training
ramble81@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
And then you pull your back picking up something small, or break your ankle because you stepped funny.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Once threw out my back breathing funny. You aren’t wrong
homes@piefed.world 17 hours ago
Omg, if I knew that my tomorrow was going to be occupied by either one of these activities, I would be so excited that I could not sleep.
But then I would go to sleep, and I would sleep well knowing that by tomorrow will be a day full of awesomeness!
realitista@lemmus.org 19 hours ago
I’ve done both and mostly agree with you but cave diving is something I far more suggest against than mountain climbing which can be rather enjoyable/
velma@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Or getting into helicopters.