This is just all kinds of NOPE!

Some reckon this is fake, but the lunatic on the bike is supposed to do scary shit like this all the time; whatever, this is one of my two worst nightmares.

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Not for me! Hope he was wearing a parachute.

one of my two worst nightmares

What’s the other one?

I know what my nightmare will be now tonight.

O.M.G. That adrenaline chute ain’t worth nothing….

That’s just lens distortion… it’s pretty much a flat meadow in reality 😉

We all know that the lens will be distorting things but, as above- No Freaking Way am I watching that. I had a bit of a tumble off an alpine arete a while ago. That vid is pulling my trigger.

Yes, the lens is distorting it. It looks like it’s about a 1000 meter drop, in reality, it’s only about 100 meters.

????

His high plateau grass wants trimming.

As someone who doesn’t like exposure, just watching that makes me want to sit down

What’s the other one?

Falling off presumably?

That reminds me of the ‘Don’t Look Down’ documentary on Channel 4 years back about people climbing up and hanging off cranes and bridges and chimneys. Absolutely bonkers and makes you feel a bit woozy just watching it

I just want to know how he got up there with the bike.

What’s the other one?

Is it sleepwalking through a shopping centre wearing only a Stetson and a pair of wellies?

Is it sleepwalking through a shopping centre wearing only a Stetson and a pair of wellies

Which shopping centre?

Is it sleepwalking through a shopping centre wearing only a Stetson and a pair of wellies

Which shopping centre?

What colour wellies?

I was thinking something big like the Trafford Centre.

Wellies and Stetson both pink, obviously

I was thinking something big like the Trafford Centre.

Wellies and Stetson both pink, obviously

Thank God, thought this was just me

I was thinking something big like the Trafford Centre.

Every other week at the metro centre like 😉

#notwatchingthat

Do people still go to shopping centres?

in reality, it’s only about 100 meters.

I don’t know, but that still seems like enough to cause some mild bruising.

Do people still go to shopping centres?

For a lot of people it’s the national pastime. I’m not sure what percentage of it is done in pink wellies and a Stetson, but then I don’t know the number of mountain bikers that applies to either

Makes you think…

My wife showed me that video. Hard to tell exactly what it looks like in real life, but it’s scary as anything, no matter what. I don’t really understand what compels people to ride lines like this. But then again, I don’t understand (or agree with the need for) Gee Atherton’s last couple of videos either.

Wellies and Stetson both pink, obviously

I don’t know, but that still seems like enough to cause some mild bruising.

Have a look at some chamois cream

In even bigger news!…

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(excuse big emoji! One step forward with insta links now a feature, but we’ve lost emojis)

Think the camera lens makes it look a lot worse than it is…..

These guys were in trend a few years back… The Vertriders….

Yeh you just have to look at the riders legs/pedals…it’s so distorted it almost looks like front wheel pedaled trike!

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Pfft. Not a patch on the SDW verts. 😉

Touching the Void? Touching cloth more like!

What’s the other one?
Falling off presumably?

More the abrupt stop at the bottom…

Actually it’s being trapped in a confined space, there’s a book by Alan Garner, which describes a number of people, including children, having to squeeze through narrow underground tunnels, which has me hyperventilating just thinking about it, or the poor bloke in America who got stuck in a pothole after taking the wrong route; he was so stuck that he died stuck there, and it was impossible to get his body out, he’s still there, and the entrance is now sealed shut.

Walking naked through a shopping centre wearing wellies and a Stetson hadn’t occurred to me, basically because, while I might wish for the ground to open up and swallow me, my imminent death wouldn’t be likely.

I walked up to the Chalet des Pyramides, a little cafe overlooking one of the glaciers at Chamonix, and some of the others in the group decided to follow a footpath to get a better view of the glacier, so after a few minutes, I decided to follow them.
That was a mistake, I lost the path, turned around, and seeing the steep drop in front of me, completely froze! I had to carefully sit down, and scoot down on my bum, until I got to the path proper and stand up, using whatever trees were handy. Not necessarily terrified, but bloody close to it.

Wellies and Stetson- you’d just have to style it out. They’d all be doing it the next week.
Those scary vids, would they do it if they couldn’t video it and no one watched them, I bet a lot wouldn’t bother.

You couldn’t even get me up there but if by some miracle you did you’d have a hell of a time getting me to move an inch. Tranquiliser darts and a helicopter…

**** no … just **** NO … 🙂

@countzero

a book by Alan Garner, which describes a number of people, including children, having to squeeze through narrow underground tunnels, which has me hyperventilating just thinking about it

Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Sweet gods, this book has haunted me since childhood for exactly the same reason. There is a section where they are crawling through a shoulders wide tunnel and there is a water filled sump they have to shuffle through. The description is so vivid.

Got the heebies now..

a book by Alan Garner, which describes a number of people, including children, having to squeeze through narrow underground tunnels, which has me hyperventilating just thinking about it
Weirdstone of Brisingamen

Sweet gods, this book has haunted me since childhood for exactly the same reason. There is a section where they are crawling through a shoulders wide tunnel and there is a water filled sump they have to shuffle through. The description is so vivid.

Got the heebies now..

There’s all sorts of stuff from his kids books that still bothers me.  I don’t remember that bit but it could be why I have a problem with really confined spaces. I still have my original copies of that, Gomrath, Elidor and The Owl Service – I keep meaning to read them again to see whether they really were that powerful, or whether I just had a great imagination that they sparked off. I’ve loved some of his more recent books.

(I wouldn’t have expected a dodgy riding video to link to Brisingamen! 😀  )

Even the car park at the end is all sorts of NOPE!

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