David Blaine is an extreme example of a human being, and long may he, and others, continue to push the boundaries. I don't particularly agree or disagree that his endeavours are of any significant use. However, looking at great explorers,climbers,scientists etc, who had the passion and endurance to attain their individual goals, i think it is a tribute to these men and woman that we, atleast, acknowledge their committment.

Honestly, I'm OK with it..., I'm just more surprised that I can't find anything original lately.
I've duped a few of my own as well. All the new stuff I see lately either looks fake or is absolute crap. There are just too many people with cameras out there that will post anything on YT (and everywhere). I think too many attention hounds and viral-media-creators are getting on the bandwagon, posting every single video they can find - especially now that every single video I look at these days has an ad connected to it in some way - *frustrated with the game - not the players!

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I'm telling you. Two-three more and you'll develop a deep hatred for my user icon

http://www.videosift.com/video/Near-Death-Experiences-one-after-another -> http://www.videosift.com/video/Rock-climbers-unleash-a-massive-boulder

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by SlipperyPete.

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Your video was a dupe, I'm afraid.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Two-Climbers-Avoid-Near-Death-Accident ->http://www.videosift.com/video/Rock-climbers-unleash-a-massive-boulder

That's also a dupe

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As a mountaineer/climber, I've heard stories of this fish and the people that have been afflicted. I'm happy to see some documentary on it, and even happier that others now share my agony. Sweet dreams! ;-)

did you read what i put ?

"compleaty irresponsible, moutine climbing ( ie Everest and tall mountains) is largely chance based" < did you red this part of what i said ?

I know people that do real world climbing and have read about it and its fairly clear that when people die on mointines its normally chance not skill /prperatoin based, ESPECIALLY when its the tall ones.

You can find technical mounties that are not that tall but are infinitely more skill full,/less chance based risk to climb than say Everest. alot of the deaths on the tall mountains are caused by the weather + altitude not climber inability. (altitude often affecting peoples abilities to think properly)

the point is there are Manny hills and mountines u can climb reasonably safely and have good fun + chalnge. there are some that are just a gamble.

its like the difference between sky diving and base jumping . alot of the people that get savierly hurt / die in sky diving is because of there own fault ( swooping to low , opening shoot late, colliding with people in formation dives) in base jumping its just a case of if the shoot opens and which way the wind blows both factors that r out of the control of the participant.


your argument is actually SHIT first of all you admit that you are not talking about evarist and the tall peaks which i am specifically referring to and then you justify your position by the emotive feelings of accomplishment.

that's like me playing Russian rullet and justifying it by the buzz i got from not getting killed. regardless of how i felt it would still be Rigged odds based and annyone of common sence who realy enjoyed stuff like that would do it when thay were older not when thay were 17 and would presumably have other things thay could exsperance before thay put themselfs in a 1-10 death situatoin.

Then rather than attack my argument you say i have no knowledge of climbing well who cares if i had knowledge or not my original point is ether correct or false.

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"The death rate has remained at one death for every 10 successful attempts to climb Everest for many years, the British Medical Journal report states.

Dr Sutherland says poor understanding of the effects of altitude is to blame. "

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"From being there, I saw there were a lot of people with considerable mountaineering experience, but who were fairly naive in some ways about the extreme altitudes they were going to face."

I so very disagree....I have been climbing for years...since I was a kid, admittedly they weren't the peaks that this kid climbs but making it to the top is quite an accomplishment the highest peaks I've climbed here are Mount Washington and Mount Adams and the feeling of making it to the top is truly a spiritual experience. What a horrible thing to say about climbers, I'm sure you never even attempted to climb anything thus you have no knowledge of what you speak!

>> ^charliem:
I call shenanigans, you aren't working a damn thing with just your own body weight.


Yeah, bicyclists, swimmers, runners and climbers are all wimps.

"It's often said that an adult chimpanzee weighing in at 150 pounds is three to seven times stronger than a human being."

What's the story? Not a lot was known until recently about this issue, but a study published this April in the journal Current Anthropology explored the issue at a new level of detail.

Our surplus motor neurons allow us to engage smaller portions of our muscles at any given time. We can engage just a few muscle fibers for delicate tasks like threading a needle, and progressively more for tasks that require more force. Conversely, since chimps have fewer motor neurons, each neuron triggers a higher number of muscle fibers. So using a muscle becomes more of an all-or-nothing proposition for chimps. As a result, chimps often end up using more muscle than they need.

Our finely-tuned motor system makes a wide variety of human tasks possible. Without it we couldn't manipulate small objects, make complex tools or throw accurately. And because we can conserve energy by using muscle gradually, we have more physical endurance—making us great distance runners.
Great apes, with their all-or-nothing muscle usage, are explosive sprinters, climbers and fighters, but not nearly as good at complex motor tasks.

In addition to fine motor control, Walker suspects that humans also may have a neural limit to how much muscle we use at one time. Only under very rare circumstances are these limits bypassed—as in the anecdotal reports of people able to lift cars to free trapped crash victims.

"Add to this the effect of severe electric shock, where people are often thrown violently by their own extreme muscle contraction, and it is clear that we do not contract all our muscle fibers at once," Walker writes. "So there might be a degree of cerebral inhibition in people that prevents them from damaging their muscular system that is not present, or not present to the same degree, in great apes." Source

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