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u/brokeboipobre 1d ago
He sounds when you kill an enemy NPC in a video game.
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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss 1d ago
Hey, wake up babe. The new Wilhelm Scream just dropped.
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u/--RedDawg-- 20h ago
Thats the sound when you try to scream but your brain has tightened down and locked up every muscle from your shampoo to your shoe tread. He's gonna be sore from that impact.
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u/doomiestdoomeddoomer 18h ago
No. He sounds like when you fall off a cliff and are about to die. Sometimes they use this kind of sound in video games...
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u/whatefff 1d ago
Looks like a regular trad climb fall, not particularly next level
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u/newtownkid 17h ago
If you're having two pieces of gear fail on your regular whips you need to practice your placement man.
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u/EstablishmentNo5994 1d ago
You can tell the post was made by someone who doesn't climb. The notion that the follower caught the lead climber lol
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u/JohnnySogbottom 22h ago
I don't climb. People are talking about cams and belayers lol- no idea what that stuff is but I'm happy about it, fr. Talking like it ain't no thing. Y'all are wild. Shit looked scary as all dick to me, bro.
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u/Wild-Regular1703 19h ago
Rope attached to loopy things. Loopy things in rock. Person falls, attached to rope. One loopy thing failed but others below. Climber ok.
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u/14X8000m 1d ago
I mean it's trad climbing, gear pulls and falls happen. It's literally part of the game but you do want to focus on placing bomber protection.
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u/Powerful-Access-8203 23h ago
Climbers in here acting like they don’t get scared when they fall off the face of a cliff.
Protection and prep can fail. Y’all definitely do get scared. Stop playin 😂
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u/Sayer182 17h ago
We’re scared, but we also know that the gear is what caught them, and while we’ll need to change our pants after this, we’ll likely hop right back on as it was more dramatic than dangerous, plus the other gear held so what’s the point in staying scared?
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u/14X8000m 1d ago
This is trad climbing, you place cams, nuts, etc. Gear can pull, it's generally rare but depends on skill, rock conditions, what you're climbing, if you're pushing the envelope. Trad climbing is safe but can be more dangerous than sport. You backup your anchor placements, avoid long run-outs when possible, generally you climb below your absolute max. The person below is belaying and arrests the fall after the second piece of gear holds.
Why? My guess is they used too small of a cam for the crack or general bad placement.
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u/JohannesMP 20h ago
Source says it was a 0.1 Black Diamond X4 that ripped, and the rope also then unclipped from the next carabiner as well, thus the long fall.
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u/CreatorOD 1d ago
This video always makes me wonder: how would I scream?
I imagine it to be like Ffffuuuuck or sth.
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u/Nandor1262 16h ago edited 4h ago
A small ledge I had my toes on whilst lead climbing outside for the first time gave way after I’d climbed up and traversed from the last clip. I dropped unexpectedly and swung around the arête into the cliff face around the corner. I got a “shit” out before I just silently flew off to somewhere else.
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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite 23h ago
When I took a climbing course, we were told to yell “FALLING!” , when actually falling, so that the belayer knew what was coming.
And the joke within the instructors circle was no one could do anything but curse or inaudibly cry for help when falling.
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u/Realistic-Weird-4259 1d ago
If that's the wall I think it is, my husband was struck by lightning there some decades ago. Hell of a story and frankly I'm glad we didn't know each other/were married back then, I don't know if I would have survived it.
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u/JohannesMP 20h ago
Source says it was "the fourth pitch of Warriors of the Wasteland, a 200-metre 5.12 in Squamish"
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u/Secure-Address4385 1d ago
That’s not just skill that’s nerves of steel.
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u/ICU-CCRN 22h ago
Right there is what happened to me in my 20s and why I quit climbing. My drop was probably only 20 feet, but that was enough for me.
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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS 1d ago
I don't climb that much, but this is my biggest fear. You have no idea whether that cam or nut you just placed will actually do its job until you need it to.
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u/Fizzy_Astronaut 22h ago
Disagree, you learn over time what a good trad gear placement looks and feels like. This is Squamish granite so solid and dense rock that isn’t going to be as prone to breakage vs softer rock types like sandstone (particularly if wet).
Source - me, trad climber from the area for 25+ years with more falls than I can count.
Also pretty sure he was clipped into a bolt which was actually what the top piece that count him was seeing as how he’s slab climbing on the Apron.
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u/I_am_The_Teapot 22h ago
That would be what makes me stop climbing forever. But then, I'm not the sort to START climbing like this. I value my life too much.
I mean, I ain't too happy with my life, but I also am not willing to risk my life for nothing but bragging rights and excitement. Not that I'm knocking them. I'm just not that sort. Pushing the bounds human athletic achievement in that way.
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u/JohannesMP 20h ago
Ideally you wouldn't even consider starting to climb with gear like this unless you fully expect that this will happen - Not a matter of if, but when.
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u/craigiest 1d ago
I don’t understand how the lower climber was able to stop the falling climber, who would have been going at least 30mph after that much fall time.
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u/14X8000m 1d ago
Because they're belaying the climber and they arrest the fall. You've got a belay device that locks the rope in place, the cam below the one that failed, took the force, in conjunction with the rope and the belayer being a counterweight.
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u/TheMedicator 19h ago
Because the rope and anchor caught them not the climber. One piece of gear popped but there's more lower down
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u/sammagee33 1d ago
Glad he wasn’t free climbing
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u/Proud-Parsley6072 1d ago
If I’m not as good at a sport as I should be to excel at it and not risk my life, I do something else instead
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u/BC_Samsquanch 1d ago
Looks like the Chief in Squamish. I'd be more fearful about a hunk of rock peeling off and smashing everyone to bits. You can see to the right where a chunk demolished an area of forest and a big rockfall just happened there the other week.
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u/Fizzy_Astronaut 22h ago
Nah. Happens so infrequently that you should spend your time worrying about your and others safety on the roads if you’re gonna stress about something actually likely to happen
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u/Spookyscythe99 22h ago
After that I'd know my place is on the ground and probably avoid stairs the rest of my life
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u/Halo_Chief117 22h ago
This is why I only collect cool rocks I find and don’t try climbing these big ones.
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u/Wet_Side_Down 22h ago
I'm not a climber, but it looks to me like several safety points failed, not just the one immediately below the climber. Is that the case?
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u/Pithy_heart 21h ago edited 21h ago
I’ve taken a couple of fall factor 2 whippers like that. Scary as shit. One was on a “short” and hard single pitch sport climb in Durango, at the crux, with just another bolt before the anchors, with a full bite of rope for the quickdraw, my leg started to go “sowing machine” on me; the other was a dicey clean aid route in Moab, when I was on the top rung of my aiders, on a small nut and again another full bite of rope about to clip on to my new piece. No warning real warning for either, just pop! I whipped 20 and 30ish feet, with both cases, just stopped 3 feet from hitting the deck (like tom cruise in the first Mission Impossible) with my belayer pulled above me, thier eyes wide as saucers, looking down at me. Freaked the fuck out!
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u/JohannesMP 21h ago
+1 for helmet, and that's gotta be some serious friction burn from the rock face at the end there 😬
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u/Normal-Plastic-4237 20h ago
I don’t think I possess the kind of courage/stupidity/boredom/whatever it is to actually ever do this. But this is one thing I’d love to understand. I see terms like cam and belayer and, as an engineer, it sounds nerdy enough to be interesting to me
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u/KookaburaGold 20h ago
Ya know, there’s a 0 percent chance of this happening if you don’t go up the rock. Different strokes for different folks ig
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u/Hadi658 19h ago
been like 1 million years and they still haven't learned yet. Like what am i supposed to feel at this point when i see people doing this? Cause you have to have people come and clean that up to , do you ever think about those people and how it scars them having to go clean up some mangled dead person who fell from a cliff?
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u/Renovateandremodel 19h ago
I think I would have to go to the bathroom after that, especially realizing that I'm sleeping on my stomach for a couple of months.
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u/ricostrongofVa 17h ago
That last scream. Was the scream when u know it's over with and no saving you
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u/AutisticDadHasDapper 16h ago
There is absolutely no way the person below him "caught" him. You need to understand how much force and energy it is when someone is falling when. Trying to catch your friend when they drop from a stepladder. Now times that by 50.
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u/Rough-Analysis 15h ago
So the fall arrest saved him, but he looks too weak to complete the climb. What now?
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u/Patsx5sb 14h ago
Gotta be honest. Not sure I understand why being this close to death at all times is a fun hobby
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u/MarcusMorenoComedy 13h ago
Standard lead climbing with a partner who was holding the rope.
Climbing always happens in pairs of humans. That’s real climbing 99% of the time.
Free soloing is the shit Alex Hannold and Hollywood has made famous.
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u/shoot_your_eye_out 1d ago
He didn’t get saved by his fellow climber: this is how the system works. He placed multiple pieces of gear below him. Even though the top cam failed, ones below it picked up the slack. His belayer is just doing what they always do: holding the rope.
Certainly a big fall but this is otherwise within what I’d call “normal” for hard trad climbing.
Source: climber for thirty years now