No. I'm not going there.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
460 points (97.7% liked)
Mildly Interesting
20225 readers
845 users here now
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Thank God I'm not stupid enough to do this LOL.
"Because it's there" is not sufficiant reason for climbing a mountain.
It's a good enough reason for me.
nonononononono. nope. non. nein.
One fart and I'm dead
On a scale of "1 to NOPE" I rate this an "absolutely the fuck not, what is wrong with you?"
The good thing about this is that you don't have to do this
Idk man, I think you'd want more than one God to thank if you want to make it out of there alive. lmao
Please mark this NSFL.
Is it really as steep as shown in the picture? The trees seem to lean a little bit to the left.
Either way. Hell no.
It's the sheer face of half dome. It may not be exactly 90° upright but it basically is.
Oh you're right. If I tilt my laptop so that the horizon is flat, it's not as steep. (but still.. too steep for me.)
See the pic somebody else linked. The horizon is not flat in that area :)
Hard pass
That is one dedicated Shel Silverstein fan.
Its called that because you have a new appreciation for your life after coming back from that alive... "Thank God I didn't drop to my death!"
Nah not for me chief
Just by looking at this I have a panic attack. Fuck this shit.
Same. Yikes.
When I say I'm not afraid of heights; what I really mean is that I'm not abnormally afraid of heights.
*bonus edit: the legendary Dan Osmond. Died not long after, when a rope snapped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCByLWtM7y4
Misread:
The legendary Dan Osmond who died not long after his rope snapped.
load more comments
(1 replies)
WHY
Fun fact, Alex said in an interview that this is a picture of him having a panic attack. Just shaking and desperately trying to keep calm as adrenaline pours through his system.
Oh, this guy.
Dude needs to keep his death wish to himself and maybe use some safety gear when he's on camera.
Like, he's good; really good. But being good and being sensible are not exclusive.
Unpopular opinion, I get it. I never understood free climbers, especially when I was playing outside (I was raised gymbo with no wish to be mangled and no illusions about my normie skill, and one of those things makes me need to see a safety line on that kid). Downvote away because apparently that's cool.
Iirc, he was doing that up until about the moment that this photo was taken. He started soloing because he was too awkward to make friends at the crag. He gets really good at it, doing it purely out of an enjoyment of doing it - before this photo, he was living out of a van, basically jobless, no social media, just dedicated to climbing.
Then the news of his solo ascent of half dome gets out, 60 Minutes does a piece on it, and gets this photo. Turns out a lot of people are captivated by the feat. Suddenly he has offers coming in from every direction to become a pro athlete, to endorse products, to do commercials, etc. So what does he do?
He figures that if he was going to do the climb anyway, then he might as well have a camera pointed at him to get paid. This allows him to not have to work part time jobs, and climb full time. He starts really raking it in, and what does he do? He buys a slightly nicer van, then donates what he doesn't spend on his still very modest lifestyle to efforts to alleviate global poverty.
Speaking about the potential influence he could have on others, he has noted that free solo rock climbing is typically a self-limiting experience. A random 14 year old might think they want to go free soloing - but every human has a natural self-preservation instinct that will kick in after you are about a dozen feet off the ground, and said 14 year old will quickly realize that what they are doing is a terrible idea. It takes years of practice and mental exposure to get to the point where free soloing even very easy routes isn't a completely paralyzing experience - at which point, we would say that such a person has sufficient experience to make their own decisions about the level of risk they are willing to take on. His point has been borne out - I have yet to hear about any people who have died soloing right after they watched Free Solo.
load more comments
(5 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
It’s Alex Honhold. He’s wired differently than most people. Definitely not tethered.
Wired very differently. Free-climbing El Capitan is certified bonkers.
load more comments
(7 replies)
I can imagine myself on that ledge and being the one person where after thousands of years of being perfectly fine, the ledge finally decided to give way and separate from the cliff.
Geologic time includes now.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Imagine sneezing
What a nice place to relax and have a cool refreshing glass of NOPE.
Reminds me of the Via Ferrata in Switzerland. It really gets the blood pumping and gives you a massive adrenaline rush, as your feet are walking on tiny metal bolts driven into a sheer cliff. You can see all the way down to the valley floor from between your toes :3
Yeah, nope. That sounds utterly terrifying.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Why? Why would you do this?
And to quote Gwen on Galaxy Quest:
Well fuck that!
load more comments
(10 replies)
view more: next ›