twighead said:

koods said:

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People have survived jumping from airplanes with no parachutes,

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Ur gonna need to back that shit up.

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Why can't you just use google for once? This is like every thread

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=people+who+have+survived+falling+from+planes

there's only like 100+ articles and numerous examples of it

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koods said:

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A skydiver from Staffordshire plunged 6,000 ft without a parachute in Russia and survived to tell the tale. Hitting rocks at an estimate 100 kilometers per hour, miracle man 31-year-old James Boole, from Tamworth, was filming a TV documentary in Russia when his parachute launched only seconds to the groun

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Like this dude ^ he had a parachute it just opened late.

You’re the one making silly claims. I shouldn’t have to go digging through the Internet looking for actual examples especially when from what I can see they’re all bullshit.

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I guess you're just not very good at it No hard feelings, it's fun to research!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi - no parachute, 33,333ft (?) - was already wounded by a bomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade - 18,000 no parachute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov - 23,000 feet, passed out before he could open his chute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee ; - had already been injured by numerous shrapnel wounds, passed out from the altitude, then fell through a glass roof from 22,000 - no parachute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke - Seat potentially saved her? 10,000ft - fell over Amazon, no parachute mother apparently survived plane breakup but died before being found(?)

There are other shorter falls recorded (say 400ft) which is still enough to surpass 100mph.

But yeah - of course, it requires a huge degree of luck, maybe a bit of skillful maneuvering, and the right landing environment (namely snow/trees/bushes/buildings with give (i.e. the glass roof), and sometimes water has worked)

And fyi living such a fall with a tangled parachute is still extremely significant (as is the case in many other situations) , as the airforce generally rates a 'streamer' - or wrapped improperly deployed parachute as reducing speed by only 10% - however simultaneously it will often prevent someone from getting into a proper sky-diving stance (which generally lowers fall speed to about 125mph-100mph) - hard to say exactly how fast you'd be going with such a minor reduction, but living a fall in which your velocity is well above 80-90mph is significant - and the accepted highly lethal (super-rapid) deceleration value is 55mph.

Niffla said:

Why would people want to climb some of the already most dangerous mountains on earth in the Himalayas -- and dramatically increase their likelihood of dying by attempting these peaks in winter?

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Why do it? And I don't mean why do people climb mountains. I get that part. Climbers are naturally drawn to summits. But why attempt something like that in winter? Isn't the point to just reach the summit? Isn't trying something like that in winter like saying...I want to go into the most dangerous neighborhood in the US, and do it at midnight just to increase the chances I may get robbed and/or killed.

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Dr. P. Silocybin said:

When I used to live in a city I would go to dangerous neighborhoods late at night because the best fried chicken joint was there. It was more dangerous than ordering dominoes, but I wasn't going to live my life in fear. So I got high and ate fried chicken. That was the best chicken I've ever had.

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Same though, with the oddly placed ghetto pho/indian/chinese joints that have probably seen a health inspection but are somehow always the dankest

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alpinists

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tyrannicalrex said:

No kidding! I'm surprised they were found.

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tyrannicalrex said:

No kidding! I'm surprised they were found.

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tyrannicalrex said:

No kidding! I'm surprised they were found.

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kr0nik0 said:

tyrannicalrex said:

No kidding! I'm surprised they were found.

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tyrannicalrex said:

No kidding! I'm surprised they were found.

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Becaons, I'm assuming.

We've had over 20 skiers/snowboarders get swallowed by avalanches here over the last month. 4 died, 16 were rescued.

GPS beacons and backpack avalanche airbags have made it a lot safer. Although death is quite inevitable when you can't move for days, can't use the snow as water, etc.
Although it's good to keep in mind this level of snowpack hasn't happened in the West in over 45 years.

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Godseed313 said:

Coming from a climber here, the solitude and adversity you face on big climbs brings a sense of joy and adventure that not much else really compares to. The Alpine environment especially so. Psychedelic experiences can do the same mentally and spiritually for me as well. Also just being out in nature and exerting and challenging yourself is extremely enjoyable and therapeutic.

Also “Free Climbing” still means climbing with a rope and protection, just not pulling on gear or Aid-Climbing, meaning simply using your hands and feet to climb while being protected by gear and rope if/when you fall. If you’re referring to the style in which Alex Honnold occasionally does large climbs like the route up El Cap he did for the film with zero protection, no harness, no rope, or anything that’s called “Free Soloing”. Sorry, I know most non-climbers prob don’t care about the distinction anyway.

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