Posted on 03/18/2018 7:09:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Almost as if he blacked out, then fell. Seems unusual for someone with that much experience for that to happen.
I would have to say peer pressure. I live in the mountains and have always enjoyed hiking trails up and down mountains, but my friends at the time thought we should take it one step further and actually, literally, climb, using our hands and feet up the side of the mountains. I did it for a while, but after that one incident I was done!
My 26 year-old daughter sent me a video of herself skydiving out of a plane last year, my stomach was up in my throat.
If they’re still working without the net, they need to bring it back. That, or take out the trapeze acts. It may be a good idea to just stop all performances for a few months, to allow the public time to forget, and to allow the acrobats time to regain their confidence. They cannot go on this way.
There did not seem to be any obvious reason for him to fall such as an equipment failure.....like you said, he seemed to just pass out.
I worked in construction as a painter/ drywall mud person. The crew was divided about 50:50 into those who would stand on one toe on the very top of a ladder to reach a corner of the ceiling and those who preferred the ground, thank you very much. I am the latter. The others - they were just amazing.
I about lost my brain climbing the dome at St. Peter’s. Wanted to call the Emergency Guys to come get me. I about froze.
Not for me neither, heights.
I hung my head over the top of Half-Dome back in the day.
He goes out of frame at the height of his routine....perhaps he hit something while out of frame knocking him unconscious.
I did the same on top of 14,500 foot Mt. Whitney when I was 24. 2,500 foot drop at that point. Now at 67 I get sick at the thought of having get on my one story roof to fix my swamp cooler. In fact I don't, I hire someone else to do it.
I’ve driven with family and friends on single lane shelf roads for many miles. Fun, eh? There’s nothing like the thought of backing up for miles around a peak on a one lane shelf road with off-camber turns and hundreds or thousands of feet of drop within a slippery foot or so.
Climbed over a little ice berm onto a trail to a shelf road, once. Turned out that the berm was built up by snowmobilers wanting to keep larger 4-wheel-drive vehicles off of it. Some of them were pretty mad, when we met them way up the trail. Others thought it was pretty funny. Too bad. They should have put up a sign. ;-D
Now days, I get nervous going six feet up a ladder.
“I’ve driven with family and friends on single lane shelf roads for many miles. Fun, eh? “
I never drove myself on one,I could never do it,but I was driven on one in Norway,one of the worst experiences of my life.
I don’t know how you do it.
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(Is an off-camber turn a hairpin turn?)
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Same construction experience, I will stand on one leg at the top, I leave it for others to go to the one toe. Used to paint gutters from the roof though when I was younger. It seemed effortless, but that was in my thirties.
me too. i was usually the last man in the stick but once, when we overshot the DZ, i was "in the door" for the next pass. buildings and cliffs are "tolerable"; glass balconies and infinity pools really freak me out.
Same here. I’m terrified of heights. Poor guy.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
I was a skydiving instructor for several years. There were a few times that a new person would say “NO, not doing this” and I’d have to ride the plane down with them. Heights are not for everybody.
Looks like that acrobat landed on his head/shoulder. Sad.
With one exception...
Wallenda was 73 years old, and he looked like a struggling old man when he fell off the tightrope.
I always felt a little scared while standing unsecured next to a drop but safe and great while rappelling. Weird or normal?
Either the fall was very high velocity, or just terrible luck with a neck or head injury.
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