r/Unexpected • u/FacelessOnes • 4d ago
Call me Alice In Winterland?
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u/Theoneandonlyzeke 4d ago
Why..... WHY would anyone do this voluntarily
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u/CthulhusCumSlut 4d ago
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
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u/sociofobs 4d ago
That, and youth makes you think you're invincible. Ex-BMX freestyler here, ask me how I know.
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u/sociofobs 4d ago
u/Sick_Fantasy u/malinex Because it took 3 bone fractures, countless other injuries and close to 10 years, before I came to my senses. It was fun while it lasted, but definitely not worth becoming disabled or lifeless over.
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u/Sick_Fantasy 4d ago
That was what I expected. My acquaintance broke spine on BMX. Gladly he stay awake after accident screams that he can't feel legs so when paramedics came they knew how to handle him and he is walking but yeah, it was not easiest skill to regain.
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u/sociofobs 4d ago
Thankfully, I only broke my collar bone and arm (2x), but yes - you're always one unlucky moment away from altering your life for the worse. Life's risky as it is, no need to multiply that risk unnecessarily.
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u/essdii- 4d ago
Yah same. I miss it. Miss the dirt jumps, and street contests, and essentially being able to crash on anyone’s couch from any state who rode. Miss the Brooklyn bridge banks, miss handrails, miss all the Vegas skateparks ):. My last man injury was from a double kink handrail when I was in Vegas for interbike. Was a bitch to heal and never healed right. Evolved into downhill mountain biking. And that is some fun stuff. Been several years though, now that I’m working so much and have a bunch of kids ! Time to pass the baton on to my rug rats
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u/NeatCartographer209 4d ago
I wiped out while hill bombing on a longboard when I was in college. Shockingly, I wore a helmet, knee and elbow pads, and carving gloves. I say shockingly, because when I took my normal hills to get to a different building (which were pretty fast rides) I wouldn’t wear anything. Hit a patch of gravel. My board stopped, but I didn’t. I was in the air for a solid 3 seconds (felt like eternity) and landed on my jaw. Broke my arm clean trying to break my fall and had to get my jaw wired. A few years of recovery and went back to boarding but psychologically couldn’t bring myself to take go down ANYTHING that declined. Even just a little. I’d start shaking and couldn’t balance.
I still ride but nothing even remotely close to how I used to.
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u/adj_noun_digit 4d ago
I've broken both collarbones, several ribs, an arm, and countless other injuries while snowboarding over the past 30 years.
It was absolutely worth it and would do it again in a heartbeat.
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u/sociofobs 4d ago
I enjoyed extreme sports in my teens and still thought it was all worth it in most of my 20s. Now in mid-30s, I no longer think so. There are far more important, precious and valuable things in life, that I could've lost thanks to being so careless in the past. No amount of temporary enjoyment is worth that.
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u/Harry_Gorilla 4d ago
Mid 40s here. I snow skied & wake-boarded for most of my 20s without breaking anything and enjoyed the hell out of it. It can still be fun without pushing so hard that you break yourself
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u/malinex 4d ago
OK, let's hear it. How do you know?
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u/Amoniakas 4d ago
He was youth
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u/Ocean_Spice 4d ago
He was a sk8er boi
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u/intrepidzephyr 4d ago
She said see u l8r boi
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u/Eat-Ca-Ca 4d ago
There's a study done on extreme skateboard, BMX, free divers and found they're brain patterns are that are the same as sociopathic and even psychotic patterns, but what happens when they are well structured.
Kinda cool. I thought.
Meaning you look at things differently and see things differently. You're one really bad parent away from being another Manson.
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u/Calm_Leopard798 4d ago
Sounds like a pseudoscience considering sociopath isn't a real medical term.
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u/WeirdTraumaMasochist 4d ago edited 4d ago
If there is any basis to it, as somone with weird brain and weird feelings; It would be because we are attracted to the stuff. Feels good to feel stuff. And some people just don’t feel as much stuff as others
I prefer eating sleeping sex and drugs personally but ig you could also risk getting suffocated by ice. The sociopath stuff is fake btw. Thats what happens when you purposely study a specific type of criminal, then make their character traits the bad scary ones
Edit: a consistent bad negative feeling seems to be a pattern too. To really make you want to explode if you don’t have a vice
I just say I have autism. It’s pretty similar (low key think it would be in the same section if people didn’t think it was high IQ evil disease. Or if you are too weird: low IQ evil disease. The separation between the two being delusion)
Autism! But with a social twist! And sometimes you want to stab people, fuck a homeless man, or eat a whole scorpion pepper due to constant fear or anger.
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u/sociofobs 4d ago
Something tells me that's a pile of bullshit, though I'd like to read that study. My simplest explanation would be, that young people just get hooked on adrenaline. Once you experience that high, you want to experience it again and again, till you get over it. Most people, once they get older and have more responsibilities in their lives, leave those extreme hobbies behind. Some go professional, just look at how successful RedBull is in extreme sports.
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u/No_Exam4769 4d ago
Also when you are older getting injured is both a) more likely and b) more of a problem (ie you have to work) and c) (bonus) it takes longer to heal- or doesn't heal properly so it's always a "thing" now. (see Louis CK).
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u/Eat-Ca-Ca 4d ago
I'll look, but it was real. And it wasn't a bad thing. It was really more of how people learn good behavior and morals, and can wire their brain patterns, same for people with TBI get over their vertigo by Physical Therapy
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u/P0werFighter 4d ago
"Who would go down in a crevasse for clouts and views? come on i have a little more sense than that !
Yeah I remember going down in a crevasse for clouts and views"
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u/Les_Bien_Pain 4d ago
Imagine doing that before eventually crashing into a pile of dead or dying skiers at the bottom.
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u/FrankTooby 4d ago
Makes me think of a video I saw the other day, never ski committed when following someone else's tracks, they were skiing off cliffs and parachuting down.
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u/curiouslyjake 4d ago
Maybe he sent a drone first?
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u/Daripuff 4d ago
I bet they went up from the exit first, and found this entrance from the inside before going down.
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u/Adkit 4d ago
Why would you go in from the exit? Even if you know there's a way through, one small stumble, a single bumped head, and you're dead. Nobody going to find you in there. This is just dumb even if you know what you're doing.
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u/Daripuff 4d ago
Because as you can see, the exit is a fairly level tunnel, and a fairly normal looking snow cave that is fairly easy to explore on foot.
I'm saying that I could tell that a person could walk on foot from the exit of the tunnel all the way to the bottom of this first terrifying crevasse, and look up and see the light at the top of the crevasse, and call upward to the people at the top to say "Oy! I'm here at the bottom! It goes all the way through!"
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u/toru_okada_4ever 4d ago
If this is on any kind of glacier, or indeed in any circumstance, the ice and snow may shift quickly, and then you are buried.
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u/Gelato_Elysium 4d ago
If it's in Europe (I have no experience skiing in America) these kinda caves that you can ski through are famous if they are near any ski resort, you'll find plenty of people going there, guides etc.
It looks crazy as fuck, but if you know how to ski it's not that hard or dangerous, especially since you can be rescued without too much struggle.
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u/Several-Hurry9330 4d ago
Well you can see tracks from others or them prior, they’re also professionals I can assure you he didn’t just stumble across that hole and think meh that looks good and hop in
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u/DC_Coach 4d ago
Gonna say. I won't call him Alice... I'll skip straight ahead to insane with a death wish?
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u/locoken69 4d ago
I mean, only if I was being chased by a Wookie would I entertain this idea. Other than that, He'll no!
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u/Odd-Doctor-2065 4d ago
They do it all the time. Did you not see all the tracks through there as he was going down?
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u/Delicious_Invite_850 4d ago
Dumb ways to die....
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u/Narriz 4d ago
Soo many dumb ways to diehahaieee
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u/Big-Honeydew-961 4d ago
So many dumb ways to diieee…
Ski down a crevasse during winter season
Body found next year for no good reason
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u/Schattenfang 4d ago
Please guys, don't to something stupid like this. Many are just a sheer drop - with luck your corpse can be retrieved in the summer, if not, found after years.
If you survive the drop, you are lucky and unlucky at the same time. Chances are slim that people will find you alive.
Please don't ski down random holes and be careful of unknown terrain - stay on the predetermined route. Often the holes are covered by snow.
Be careful, stay save.
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u/Billbeachwood 4d ago
Please don't ski down random holes
But use protection if you do.
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u/Agarwel 4d ago
On the other hand... there were already ski footprints in front of him. So this was not random unexplored hole. So we knew what is he getting into. Of course the question is, how it was inspected the first time.
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u/wisdomoarigato 4d ago
I mean prints at the entrance are no guarantee that the person actually went through 😂
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u/NeverEndingCoralMaze 4d ago
There’s no fire on this side of the door of this burning building. I’m going in.
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u/Superg0id 4d ago
that's no guarentee you're not about to ski into another future corpse too..
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u/alexaboyhowdy 4d ago
He knew what he was getting into, but did he know what he was getting out of? How did he know he put run into their bodies stuck in the middle somewhere?
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u/AnastasiaSheppard 4d ago
I was thinking the whole time "If they don't already know what's at the end, this is the stupidest person alive." and then they reached the end and I realised that was all just snow above them and they were still the stupidest person alive because that could have collapsed at any moment.
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u/QuotableMorceau 4d ago
or you can become the next Otzi to be studied in 5000+ years
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u/SolusLoqui 4d ago
At least there will be footage of how they died with a camera strapped to their head
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u/notafuckingcakewalk 4d ago
Even if there isn't a drop seems like the easiest thing in the world to snag your skis somehow and get into a position where you also can't bend down to remove them from your feet.
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u/El-Grande- 4d ago
I mean there are ski tracks here. It’s not like he went in blind. Also the camera is making it looks much different than the reality
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u/StinkPickle4000 4d ago
Those tracks just from his first attempt when the camera wasn’t on lol
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u/El-Grande- 4d ago
Nah. I believe it’s just something at a resort that video shows the reality of it
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u/ark_keeper 4d ago
Doesn't seem to be the same one, or at least the same entrance. They can see the opening basically as soon as they enter. Op video is inside way longer despite going much faster.
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u/Final-Nebula-7049 4d ago
nutty putty winter edition
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u/ThrowFurthestAway 4d ago
This one is, unfortunately, a single internet search away. A man died trapped upside down in the NP cave, unable to be rescued even though they knew exactly where he was.
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u/--TheSolutionist-- 4d ago
Thanks. You work just like AI, at the end, the work is done by a human! 🤣. Appreciate the context!
Cheers!
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u/P4azz 4d ago edited 4d ago
Nutty Putty cave.
Prime example that "
cave divingcaving" is dumb as shit and you should never do it.2
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u/Zikkan1 4d ago
That didn't even look fun though...
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u/N0tN0w0k 4d ago
It does in this gem of a vid called ‘the ultimate run’: https://youtu.be/fbqHK8i-HdA?si=phRt4trvGcHn3SCX
I think they used this exact spot.
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u/heteroscodra 4d ago
Someone skied down there before
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u/azure-skyfall 4d ago
I wonder if this skier could see the exit marks from the first guy? Because otherwise, going in when you might fall on top of the first trapped guy is EXTRA dumb.
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u/lukasaldersley 4d ago
This is just asking for something to go wrong (and then expecting other people to risk their lives to rescue you from the consequences of your own stupidity)
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u/activereform 4d ago
Which is why we should universally as a society agree people like this did it to themselves and move on.
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u/aliebabadegrote 4d ago
And if you look closely, you can see the tracks of others, meaning they have done this already or someone else did
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u/Labrys_of_Artemis 4d ago
Imagine following someone elses tracks into the dark abyss.
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u/Munrowo 4d ago
i'm thinking this probably a known, mapped passage and that's the only reason they chose to take it
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u/Equivalent_Ad8133 4d ago
That gave me so much anxiety just watching it but it is very cool. I would never have the nerve to do that.
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u/NeonGurll 4d ago
Cave Diving wasn't good enough
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u/dingusfett 4d ago
Cave Diving, but the water is frozen into snow that may cave in and trap you, and you have large ungainly sticks stuck to your feet giving you a Dexterity score of 0.
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u/Crab2406 4d ago
Man... How do i make cave diving even scarier?
The humble small cave covered with ice and snow, in the middle of nowhere:
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u/falseprophic 4d ago
It is getting difficult not to question if it is AI or not.
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u/LumpkinsPotatoCat 4d ago
There was nothing cool inside? Seems silly to be so risky when the coolest part is the outside that you started with.
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u/EccentricSoaper 4d ago
All i hear is that sound bite of the guy going "no.. no no no Nooooo nono no."
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u/PrinceWhitemare 4d ago
Dumb ways to die
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
So many dumb ways to die
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u/ncgunner 4d ago
“I find myself saying ‘that’s white people shit’ a lot for someone who is in fact, white”
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u/pessimus_even 4d ago
I always want to know how people figure out they can go through these things. Unless they have a rope tied around their waiste, and even then, this is wild.
This one and the ones where they go through the water tunnels are ridiculous. Makes me wonder how many more nutty putty cave situations there are that are just missing persons cases.
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u/TheIndomitableMass 4d ago
If it’s real, which I unfortunately have to say about anything now that AI is as convincing as it is, guy was beyond lucky that that cave had an outlet because he was not getting out of there otherwise.
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u/chriscringlesmother 4d ago
How do you find out this is safe before you do it ? Or do people just go down then and then get stuck and die ?
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u/Maximum_Feed_8071 4d ago
Have any of you guys thought that maybe the guy in the video already knew it was safe and that there was an exit just ahead?
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u/post-explainer 4d ago edited 4d ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
i thought he would get hurt or worse,but he came out kickin
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