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.

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
    7·
    24 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
      21·
      23 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!)

  • eltrain123@lemmy.world
    5·
    23 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
      2·
      23 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.

  • RandomStickman@fedia.io
    61·
    24 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

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    4·
    24 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.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
    3·
    24 days ago

    Extreme ironing. I don’t see the point of dragging a board and iron anywhere. Even at home I’d rather wear wrinkles than open that board. (which is why I buy perminant press church clothes)

    • MrBobDobalina@lemmy.nz
      1·
      23 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.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    24 days ago

    The one I would also most like to do, if only it was safe and I wasn’t disabled: wingsuiting. Even if I wasn’t disabled I still wouldn’t do it, just because I don’t want to die by smashing into the ground at 60 mph. But moving through the sky like that sounds incredible.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    3·
    23 days ago

    a lot of people saying cave diving and I agree it is fucking terrifying and you wouldn’t catch me anywhere near it but you are weightless, if you go somewhere bad you can almost always just go back. Dry caving however has this little thing called gravity, you can get stuck in a hole with no way out, I would honestly rather drown.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      I was watching something the other day where these guys went through this tiny little hole in the ground. It turned into a massive cavern hundreds of feet deep then they followed the cave as it narrowed, by the end of, he had taken off most of his gear and was straining to pull himself through crevices that he really didn’t fit through. One slight mistake or a shift in some rocks and you’re done. If the guy he was with was a little bit bigger and couldn’t get through the crevice he couldn’t even get in to save his ass. Yeah no thanks.

      Underwater spelunking is significantly more dangerous because you have a very limited oxygen supply and it’s very easy to get confused about which way is up. And every time you get near a surface you end up having zero visibility. Everywhere you go your equipment’s getting stuck on things.

      To be honest either one of those can fuck right off, we don’t even need a contest.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 days ago

    Honestly, I don’t know what’s supposed to be fun about cave diving. Like, normal diving doesn’t push your buttons any more so the next logical step is to go diving in a grave?

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    2·
    23 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.