Personally I’d say cave diving. I was contemplating between that and free climbing soloing but I honestly rather fall to my death than drown in a claustrophobic, dark, cold, silted up cave.

  • Shard@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    Cave diving.

    Extremely risky even for the very experienced. You only need one thing to go wrong and that’s it. Sometimes even the best planning can result in your death because something entirely out of your control happens.

    https://youtu.be/tbdCfIAouig

  • RandomStickman@fedia.io
    402·
    3 days ago

    Cave diving is a good one. But also underwater cave diving, if that’s the right term. Seeing pictures of those those “don’t go beyond this point you will die” signs underwater is pretty dang spooky

  • eltrain123@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 days ago

    I know you didn’t ask and probably don’t care, but free climbing and free soloing are different things. Free climbing uses a rope, but does not allow you to use artificial means to ascend, like pulling on gear you put on the wall. The gear is just there to arrest a fall.

    Free soloing is where you climb without a rope. Free climbing uses a rope for safety, but upward mobility is hands and feet on wall. Aid climbing is where you climb by fixing gear to the wall and use it to ascend.

    If you know what you’re doing, free climbing is pretty safe. Free soloing is not, but people do it successfully without their huge balls weighing them down.

    As a side note, bouldering is also climbing without a rope, but you don’t climb high enough to make a fall fatal.

    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Thanks! Yeah I meant free soloing. I was under the illusion that ‘Free Solo’ was just the name of the Alex Honnold documentary and free climbing was the term for the sport itself, like free diving.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 days ago

    Anvil firing

    You get 2 anvils, stack them on top of each other, the bottom one upside down, pack some gunpowder between them, light it, run, and the top one shoots off into the air and eventually comes back down.

    I’m sure it’s a blast (literally) but I’m not trying to looney tunes myself.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    Free plummeting. Although that’s just a fancy way to say “jumping off of something really high and then dying when you hit the ground.” The problem is you can only do it once, but it will be the last extreme sport you will ever try.

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      31·
      2 days ago

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  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 days ago

    I’ve done a little bit of cave diving. There are caves I would dive again, and some I absolutely would not. These experiences rank very highly among the coolest of my life. There’s things to see down there you can’t experience any other way. But yes, it is relatively dangerous and I spent a lot of time down there not thinking about how far away I was from the surface.

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    Three years ago, I broke my leg free climbing. It took two and a half years of physical therapy to get back to maybe 80% of what it used to be, and now I have a permanent metal plate. I was lucky it wasn’t any worse.

    I don’t think I’ll ever free climb again, it’s just not worth it. However, I also would never do cave diving.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      That’ll teach you to be cheap. Next time, pay a fair price for your climbing.

      (Seriously though, that sucks and I’m glad it didn’t end even worse!)

    • chrizzowski@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 days ago

      Curious what happened? Shitty catch from your belayer and decked? Piece of pro popped and decked? Or just a big whip in a bad place or with a bad slam?

    • MrBobDobalina@lemmy.nz
      8·
      3 days ago

      You’re probably talking about proximity flying. I’ve done a bunch of wingsuit flying, in groups, from a plane. Skydiving but with wingsuits. With all of the correct training and gear, it felt completely safe.

      I never BASE jumped, but when I was skydiving a lot I was considering giving it a go, but still leaning towards the ‘nah that’s probably a bit too dangerous for me’ side.

      Then there’s base jumping with a wingsuit… Something that if I had gotten into base jumping, would still have probably been too scary.

      Then, about 100x more dangerous and terrifying than all of that, is proximity flying - wingsuit base, with the intention of staying close to terrain the whole time. These psychos fly through valleys, between trees etc…

      Knowing what I do about how tricky it is to fly a low-performance, gentle easy wingsuit in a stable formation, the idea of flying these bigger, twitchier high performance wingsuits through a valley just seems suicidal. Absolutely nope.

      • sasquash@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yeah thanks, I meant the proximity flying with a wingsuit where they fly very close to the terrain. I live close to a mountain where they are doing this. The videos are stunning but we hear about accidents regularly in local media. If something happens your done. No thx: https://youtu.be/QKMkhCsgsas