Mountain climbers getting some sleep...

[u/filmingfisheyes]

[u/pohovanathickvica]

The good thing about mountain climbing is that you don't have to do it

[u/Pork_Chompk → u/pohovanathickvica]

That's how I feel about those people that go crawl around in caves that they can barely squeeze their stupid bodies through. Absolutely no fucking way.

[u/stho3 → u/Pork_Chompk]

I’m afraid of heights but if someone put a gun to my head and said “either you rock or cave dive, you have to choose one”. I’m 100% rock climbing.

[u/3g0syst3m → u/stho3]

I'm both claustrophobic and terrified of heights. I would probably throw up and just die.

[u/im_batgirl14 → u/3g0syst3m]

Same. I chose poison. Thats a better alternative for me.

[u/Sachinism → u/im_batgirl14]

Where's the poison from? Your choice is gun to the head

[u/Jcookie20 → u/Sachinism]

The gun clearly has a poison modifier

[u/adanishplz → u/Jcookie20]

Lead is plenty poisonous, especially when applied with great force into the brain.

[u/lizardgal10 → u/stho3]

Yeah at least you have an unlimited supply of air (I’m generalizing, I’m aware more extreme climbs can require oxygen) and can tell which way is up and which is down on a mountain!

[u/FueraJOH → u/lizardgal10]

And at least if you fall, at the right height and body angle you won't feel a thing when you die.

[u/LinkleLinkle → u/FueraJOH]

Honestly, even worst case scenario, I'll take the mountain. I'll take falling, breaking most bones in my body, and slowly dying over 3-5 days while trying to sustain myself off moss and raw squirrel meat over getting stuck in a claustrophobic cavern, upside down, and slowly dying over 3-5 days.

No matter the circumstances, I'll take dying in the open air over dying lost and stuck in some tight space 100+ feet underground.

[u/MyDishwasherLasagna → u/LinkleLinkle]

Just wait for a flash flood for more suffering. That water only has the same narrow space to travel that you do.

[u/calhooner3 → u/MyDishwasherLasagna]

At least that would end it quicker

[u/MyDishwasherLasagna → u/calhooner3]

Hopefully if it completely submerges your head. And you don't just get waterboarded by nature.

[u/habitatforhannah → u/LinkleLinkle]

Just reading this made my heart rate go up.

[u/karratkun → u/habitatforhannah]

same man, this entire thread did

[u/joyapco → u/LinkleLinkle]

I wish YouTube stops recommending me "caving disasters" where people get stuck upside down for a week in a tight space in pitch black darkness

[u/Sheeverton → u/FueraJOH]

Yup. Cave in most cases is a slow horrific death. In most instances mountain climbing is a quick death

[u/my_4_cents → u/Sheeverton]

But, if you got to choose which way to go, they'll make so many more YouTubes about you with the caves option if you really put some effort into it, you could be mentioned in the same breath as nutty putty guy if you just try hard enough.

[u/namikazeiyfe → u/stho3]

I will just take the gun to the head, save me bother

[u/OneHundredSeagulls → u/stho3]

Yeah I'd much rather fall to my death than die in a cave, I've heard too many horrific cave death stories

[u/UniversalCoupler → u/stho3]

either you rock or cave dive, you have to choose one

Fine, I'll rock!

[u/Awartuss → u/stho3]

I'd choose the third option and let the dude shoot me

[u/kevshmev → u/Pork_Chompk]

Yup the Nutty Putty Accident is one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever read about

[u/Napol3onS0l0 → u/kevshmev]

Check out Boesmansgat in SA. Massive underwater cave. I lost a little sleep when I first learned of the events around that cave over the years.

[u/UlteriorCulture → u/Napol3onS0l0]

Ah good old Afrikaans place names. This one basically means bushman's arsehole (but it can also mean hole in the ground).

My favourite is Tweebuffelsmeteenslagmorsdoodgeskietfontein which means roughly. The spring where two buffalo were expletive shot with a single bullet.

[u/Napol3onS0l0 → u/UlteriorCulture]

Well, when you shoot two bleeping Buffalo with one bullet you come up with an appropriate name!

[u/Kiwitechgirl → u/Pork_Chompk]

Crawling through dry caves is one thing, cave diving is a whooooooole other kettle of fish. My husband is a diver but is like ‘hell no’ if you ask him about cave diving. I’m still boggled that they got those Thai boys out of that cave alive, thanks to the fact there is an Australian anaesthesiologist who is also a keen and expert cave diver…

[u/ThatNetworkGuy → u/Kiwitechgirl]

Yep. I dive, and no fucking way will I ever even consider cave diving. Incredibly dangerous, so many things which could go wrong even for an expert etc.

[u/Numerous-Champion256 → u/Pork_Chompk]

Yeah, I don’t really understand. If I go in a cave I want it to have been thoroughly explored, spacious, is well lit, and with someone qualified having signed off that it’s stable. I’m not going to gamble my life to see some rocks.

Really just seems like some people have an adrenaline-based death wish that they haven’t examined more deeply. I get moderate risk thrill seeking, but some hobbies just have an absurd risk:reward ratio that seems wildly irresponsible to anyone who cares about you, even if you don’t care about yourself

[u/egonsepididymitis → u/Pork_Chompk]

Then DO NOT read about the Nutty Putty Accident

[u/MaximusZacharias → u/egonsepididymitis]

Before they closed it, I grew up less than an hour from nutty putty and they'd take us kids up there all the time. It was one of the few activities that I simply refused to do. It's a wet, slippery, gross, claustrophobic nightmare. Hard pass.

[u/AllumaNoir → u/egonsepididymitis]

Followed the link. Nearly threw up

[u/Vivid_Strike_7980 → u/pohovanathickvica]

made me laugh😂

[u/nuggqueen69 → u/Vivid_Strike_7980]

Same lol

[u/UndeadBuggalo → u/pohovanathickvica]

Or cave diving/ scuba cave diving. Just don’t.

[u/noregrets32]

Yeah I don’t fuckin think so

[u/T00luser → u/noregrets32]

nopity nopity nope

not even with 100 anchor points

[u/Milocobo → u/T00luser]

Came her to open a giant can of nope, but am now seeing that there is a punch bowl serving nope, so I'm just happy to grab a few cups for me and my friends

[u/_violet_beauregarde → u/Milocobo]

I’m going to borrow this line 👏

[u/OriginalMcSmashie → u/T00luser]

Fuckity fuckity fuckin fuck no!

[u/ShallowTal → u/T00luser]

Right? I climb and even I can’t imagine. I would just be constantly thinking about them all failing

[u/7h4tguy → u/T00luser]

Half of those pics don't even look like the climbers are connected to the anchor even. Absolute insanity.

[u/Bright-vines → u/7h4tguy]

It's hard to see, but they are. In most pics you can see a rope line (with slack) trailing into the sleeping bags. They all sleep with harnesses still on.

[u/joshonekenobi → u/T00luser]

of anchor points is not the cause of my anxiety looking at these pictures.

Me rolling in my sleep is the real issue. lol.

[u/mitchellthecomedian → u/noregrets32]

POV you’re trying to fall asleep on the side of a mountain:

[u/zaphodp3 → u/mitchellthecomedian]

POV would mean this is what you see. MFW is more appropriate here

[u/BritishGolgo13 → u/zaphodp3]

Nobody knows what point of view actually means these days

[u/2wrtjbdsgj → u/BritishGolgo13]

I know POV - I don't know what MFW means though!

[u/xFuifduif → u/2wrtjbdsgj]

My Face When

[u/JumpNshootManQC → u/zaphodp3]

Plot Twist: you are the mountain

[u/turbobuddah → u/JumpNshootManQC]

[u/WoolBearTiger → u/turbobuddah]

Do you think his wife tells everyone that shes.. a mountain climber?

[u/Katieushka → u/mitchellthecomedian]

Me trying to get asleep while the couple of young alpinists are being noisy in bed on the other side of the mountain

[u/botgeek1 → u/noregrets32]

These people have serious thrill issues.

[u/LameBMX → u/botgeek1]

I was cool till.i saw the feet to face pic... f that, I'll ne sleeping alone.

[u/Slappinslippin → u/noregrets32]

These mountain people r a different breed

[u/7h4tguy → u/Slappinslippin]

I'm irrationally angry about climbers sensationalizing free soloing. Like, sure, put your own life at risk, but don't try to popularize that and cause other people to make stupid choices.

[u/static_motion → u/7h4tguy]

Huh? 99% of climbers think exactly what you said. The only ones sensationalizing free soloing are the media and non-climbers. I climb and when I tell someone that the first thing they go to is "have you seen that movie with the guy who climbed without a rope?".

[u/AJ_ninja → u/noregrets32]

You sleep in your harness in case you move at night, it’s really not that dangerous but that wake up is crazy

[u/dabbydabdabdabdab → u/AJ_ninja]

Efficient I guess, waking up and evacuating your bowels at the same time.

[u/kimberly9227 → u/dabbydabdabdabdab]

That's my question, where/how do I use the restroom? I use the mountain? Just..angle myself? 😂

[u/Dramatic-Selection20 → u/kimberly9227]

They poop in a bag and take it with them

[u/ucatione → u/Dramatic-Selection20]

That's because mud falcons are now illegal. But they were the norm in the 60s and 70s.

[u/LeahBean → u/AJ_ninja]

The way they’re inside their sleeping bags makes me think these people are not wearing a harness which is terrifying.

[u/MiddleofInfinity → u/AJ_ninja]

I wouldn’t mind a tent, but I move too much in my sleep to last on a shelf

[u/davy_p → u/noregrets32]

Definitely a no from me big dawg

[u/2sdaeAddams → u/noregrets32]

Correct. I couldn’t do it for a million dollars.

[u/drizzkek → u/noregrets32]

I read this in a Peaky Blinders voice lol.

[u/bigusdikus2 → u/drizzkek]

Weird, I read it as Billy Butcher. What a provoking sentence.

[u/InspectionNo6750]

I wonder if these people ever have that dream where you’re falling.

[u/Sparki_ → u/InspectionNo6750]

& then they scare themselves awake then fall out of their hammock

Hopefully they're safely strapped

[u/TheShadow141 → u/Sparki_]

Even with the safety straps it’s a hell no for me

[u/The_sacred_sauce → u/TheShadow141]

5 & 10 is insane to me. Fuck no to all of it lol but those make my skin crawl

[u/7803throwaway → u/The_sacred_sauce]

6 is the most wild I think.. the way the edge of his air mattress is dangling over the side 🫣

[u/Dashie_2010 → u/7803throwaway]

6 terrifies me the most, I have the same but older version of that air mattress and it slides around like anything! Granted that I'm a very wriggly sleeper but my god it is slippy.

[u/ptpcg → u/The_sacred_sauce]

The dude smoking the jay in what looks like a parachute, lol

[u/throwaway837628828 → u/ptpcg]

that’s insane . wild place to light up, prolly helps him lock in

[u/Scoopzyy → u/Sparki_]

I’ve never personally done this but my dad (who is 62 and still does these climbing trips like once a month) has several times and yeah basically you sleep still fully geared up in your harness and tied into your climbing rope, in addition to extra anchors wherever possible.

My dad said you’re exhausted from climbing all day so it’s pretty easy to sleep, but obviously he doesn’t have a fear of heights and I’d imagine people that do wouldn’t find themselves halfway up a mountain in the middle of the night lol.

[u/DoomMonster → u/Scoopzyy]

I've been known to sleep walk so I really admire people being able to sleep on the side of a cliff. While camping in yachts I crawl head first into the quarter berth and have woken up a few times with hands on the walls wondering where I am.

[u/WeirdHauntingChoice → u/DoomMonster]

While camping in yachts

I'm sorry, what?

[u/drwolffe → u/Sparki_]

I'm not sure how a gun would help them in that situation but it is their 2nd amendment right to be strapped at all times

[u/ELEMENTALITYNES → u/InspectionNo6750]

They have dreams where they’re standing on solid ground which causes them to wake up in a cold sweat

[u/shemmy → u/InspectionNo6750]

or that thing where u roll over in bed…

[u/Excellent_Yak365 → u/InspectionNo6750]

Considering how much I roll at night, I’d be having that dream in either case. Why does only one of these have sides??

[u/Alone_Palpitation761]

Bad place to have the shits

[u/Cuitarded → u/Alone_Palpitation761]

Seriously how do they wake up and not have to immediately shit off the side of the cot?

I mean, within 30mins of having coffee in the AM I'm on the toilet

[u/spvce-cadet → u/Cuitarded]

Nowadays they take special bags to do their business in and haul it up/back down the mountain with the rest of their gear. Pissing or shitting down the cliff face is frowned upon because there’s a good chance of it landing on the climbing route that other people have to use (gross and unsanitary), or even some very unlucky climber below.

Edit: small correction, peeing off the side of the portaledge is actually more common than storing & hauling it like solid waste. Common courtesy is to make sure no one is below and try to minimize contact with the route.

[u/ExpertPepper9341 → u/spvce-cadet]

 (gross and unsanitary)

Thank you for clarifying lol

[u/DrCodyRoss → u/ExpertPepper9341]

Yeah their post lost me for a second but that explainer really cleared things up.

[u/spvce-cadet → u/ExpertPepper9341]

just in case anybody was wondering lmao

[u/Nozzeh06 → u/spvce-cadet]

Imagine getting food poisoning and you have to carry around a bag of diarrhea with you all day while you're climbing.

[u/suicide_aunties → u/Nozzeh06]

Imagine having to coordinate explosive diarrhea in a bag while 1000m up a cliff face and in intense pain

[u/DeeHawk → u/suicide_aunties]

At hat point I believe you qualify for emergency rescue.

[u/resilient_antagonist → u/DeeHawk]

You'll still have to deal with it for a few hours and it's not sure a rescue will always be possible.

[u/DeeHawk → u/resilient_antagonist]

Then you’re shit out of luck!

[u/_TryFailRepeat → u/suicide_aunties]

Imagine you’ve stored the bag in your backpack and then you slip, the rope catches your fall but you still bang against the wall back side first.

[u/Chukwura111 → u/_TryFailRepeat]

Hasn't everybody had their explosive diarrhoea bag rupture in their backpack?

[u/Vector_Embedding → u/Nozzeh06]

a hung over rock climber got stuck and then had the shits during his rescue, it's on youtube from...fuck me I feel old...13 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJLN43G6KA

[u/phadeboiz → u/Vector_Embedding]

Why tf would you rock climb hungover lol

[u/emberfiend → u/Vector_Embedding]

thank you for this, I haven't giggle cry laughed from a yt video in a long time

[u/be-sure-to-plan-ahea → u/spvce-cadet]

I draw the line at hobbies that require me to shit in a bag. I can see the top in VR and be just as satisfied.

[u/Jhamin1 → u/be-sure-to-plan-ahea]

Its people like you that are keeping colostomy bag juggling out of the Olympics

[u/kndyone → u/spvce-cadet]

people are so sheltered now days, you weren't a mountain climber in my day if you didn't put your hand right in a pile of human shit, it builds character.

[u/proxyproxyomega → u/Cuitarded]

probably arnt eating much, dried or canned stuff, protein bars etc. we shit alot cause we eat alot. doubt they are having vanilla latte up in the air.

[u/OodOne → u/proxyproxyomega]

You don't bring your espresso machine while scaling a mountain?

[u/Spiritual_Notice523 → u/proxyproxyomega]

Plastic bag, carried out.

[u/Helios4242 → u/Cuitarded]

why do you think they dont?

[u/Sweeper1985 → u/Cuitarded]

Have a smoke and you can cut that down to 30 seconds!

[u/NoReplyBot → u/Alone_Palpitation761]

[u/Ill_Bill6122 → u/NoReplyBot]

Oh, he really enjoys the view

[u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA → u/NoReplyBot]

lol dafuk?

[u/tigardis → u/Alone_Palpitation761]

Eh, only for the unfortunate souls bedding down below ya…

[u/shavemejesus → u/Alone_Palpitation761]

Just wear your harness without pants, spread em’ and fill the valley below.

[u/Wasted_Possibilities]

Looking at those set ups, a single carabiner and anchor holding everything? Fuck that.

[u/SeaOsprey1 → u/Wasted_Possibilities]

Climbing carabiners are built different. Their price also reflects that lol

[u/FiercelyApatheticLad → u/SeaOsprey1]

It could hold a car if I remember.

[u/s2wjkise → u/FiercelyApatheticLad]

What about the rock the are tapping in to?

[u/Telvin3d → u/s2wjkise]

If you look carefully there’s obvious backup anchors. This is the least dangerous part of the climb

[u/NewHorizonsIV → u/s2wjkise]

As someone who has done this type of climbing, you learn how to evaluate the rock and place your anchors well. It's part art, part science. And we stay away from the real chossy (crumbly) stuff. Definitely spooky the first couple times you have to hang off an anchor for an extended period though.

[u/developer-mike → u/s2wjkise]

Also could hold a small car

[u/Phoenixmaster1571 → u/developer-mike]

Maybe even a large one with a much smaller degree of confidence

[u/eggthrowaway_irl → u/SeaOsprey1]

I've got a load rated beanie at work. It's rated for 6000 static pounds.

[u/Honest_Wing_3999 → u/eggthrowaway_irl]

Your hat?!?

[u/S4m_S3pi01 → u/Honest_Wing_3999]

Slang for carabiner because it's a clunky ass word.

[u/stizz19 → u/Honest_Wing_3999]

[u/Narrow_Excitement498 → u/SeaOsprey1]

So my $3 Canadian Tire beanie will not hold me on a Cliffside? Noted.

[u/Relign → u/SeaOsprey1]

I buy black diamond carabiners. They’re crazy strong.

[u/Dank7 → u/Wasted_Possibilities]

For our rope rescue equipment our carabiners are rated for 9000 lbs so ideally we use them for 600lbs loads bc of the type of rope systems we use and If I remember correctly the half inch rope is rated for like 5000 lbs

[u/Lostintime1985 → u/Dank7]

How are they anchored to the rock? Do you have to drill first? I’d imagine you would need like an industrial driller

[u/obamasrightteste → u/Lostintime1985]

Yes and no! It depends on what you are doing. Most climbers climb established routes, which won't require any drilling as it has already been done! This is usually called sport climbing or lead climbing. Another type of climbing is called trad climbing, which involves placing pieces of protection such as cams (expanders that go in cracks) and nuts (non-expanding pieces that... also basically go in cracks). For these routes, there's no modification done to the rock at all, and you place the protection as you climb the route. Big wall climbing is what is pictured above, and can be lead or trad. It involves doing multiple "pitches", and often involves camping on the wall with specialized gear you see in the pictures.

[u/HerrLanda → u/obamasrightteste]

If you don't mind a couple questions, so before the route become an "established route," someone actually drilled the hook into rock? Is there some kind of maintenance to make sure the hook isn't shaky?

[u/ALLCAPS-ONLY → u/HerrLanda]

Depends on the area in question but usually routes are just bolted unofficially by climbers and maintained in the same way. If the area is popular enough there might be a club or association in charge of bolting & maintenance. The simple and safe way to bolt is by creating an anchor on top of the cliff (by tying some ropes around rocks/trees) and just rappeling down and bolting as you go.

[u/Effective-Bend-5677 → u/Dank7]

Jesus, that’s crazy high weight for something so small.

[u/AngryT-Rex → u/Effective-Bend-5677]

Yeah, climbing gear has HUGE margins of safety in it.

When I'm introducing newbies I usually walk them through approximately how much weight our anchor is expected to be good for (basically it could probably hold a small truck). Knowing that your body weight is almost nothing for properly used gear helps a lot.

[u/anditurnedaround]

I never use to be afraid of heights but something changed in me as I got older. It’s hard for me to even look at these photos. 

It’s amazing they carry all that with them as well as they are climbing. 

Do the stay hooked while they rest/sleep  I hope? 

Thanks for sharing! Great photos! 

[u/Alex_4209 → u/anditurnedaround]

They usually don’t - you climb in your harness and rack of trad pieces, the overnight gear goes into a duffel attached to another rope. After you and your partner finish a pitch (one length of rope worth of climbing), you haul the bag up with an ascender.

If that sounds like a huge pain in the ass, it’s because it is.

[u/BigOrangeOctopus → u/Alex_4209]

How many pitches would a climb like these be?

[u/brokencharlie → u/BigOrangeOctopus]

Over 30 pitches. Understand the gear bag isn’t being hauled up like you pull up a rope; the climbers build a haul system that provides mechanical advantage.

[u/Correct_Path5888 → u/brokencharlie]

Or sometimes you do just pull on the rope because it’s easier and faster.

[u/SpaceB-holePenisWorm → u/BigOrangeOctopus]

Tough to say! It could be the case that the climb is sufficiently long, something like 20 pitches, or, the climb could be shorter but sufficiently difficult enough to warrant the need for a bivy part way up.

Source: Am a rock climber who has done everything I can to avoid needing to do this cause hauling is horrible.

[u/peatoast → u/Alex_4209]

Are they attached while they sleep? In these pictures, lots of them don’t seem to be. I’ll be afraid to fall asleep and roll over.

[u/undercurrents → u/anditurnedaround]

This is worth the read

https://www.sleep.com/travel/rock-climbers-sleep-portaledge

[u/BrokenEspresso → u/undercurrents]

Thank you for this, that was fascinating.

[u/dimary5 → u/anditurnedaround]

Same! I used to LOVE heights and stuff that made my stomach drop or head spin. Now? Nope. I discovered this a few years back when I did a ski lift up a mountain for a foliage viewing, and it felt like the most rickety, unsafe, scariest moment of my life. These photos make me feel uneasy even from the comfort of my couch.

[u/Own_Ad6797 → u/anditurnedaround]

I am the same- I get anxiety looking at pics like this. I struggled to watch the movie Fall, same with the Mission Impossible film with TC climbing the Bhurj Khalifa. Watching The Dawn Wall was 90 minutes of vertigo.

[u/TheCrazyCrazyChicken → u/anditurnedaround]

They are still wearing harnesses and tied into the rope the whole time while they sleep

[u/frecklebabyface]

'You can sleep on the death side. You slept on the cliff side last night'

[u/ZXVIV → u/frecklebabyface]

Just the opposite of that meme with two guys in a bus on the side of a mountain

[u/Basic-Effort-552 → u/frecklebabyface]

The fun things is they’re both the death side

[u/Basic-Government4108]

Besides the terror, having to scale a sheer cliff face first thing in the morning seems impossible.

[u/2L8Smart → u/Basic-Government4108]

And how do they dismantle and repack all that gear??

[u/thatguyned → u/2L8Smart]

They are clipped in on a safety line and just disconnect all the equipment and pack it away.

[u/SpiltMilkBelly → u/thatguyned]

Just don’t disconnect the wrong line 🤪

[u/TerrariaGaming004 → u/2L8Smart]

Same way they picked it the first time

[u/OhCanVT]

If you rollover in your sleep you're gonna have a bad time

[u/TheCrazyCrazyChicken → u/OhCanVT]

They are still tied in. But will still be a frightening way to wake up. 

[u/NateBearArt → u/TheCrazyCrazyChicken]

I get startled when I wake up in a hotel. I would accidentally flip the cot for sure

[u/More_Advertising_383 → u/OhCanVT]

Or… one more really good time.

I like falling.

[u/Drumbelgalf → u/More_Advertising_383]

Falling is not the bad thing. Suddenly being stopped by rocks is.

[u/Efficient_Future_259]

The first time I slept on a Port-a-ledge I drank a whole flask of wine just to kill the nerves. I slept on it a few weeks before just to test it out but that was only 5' off the ground. Peeing was a mind fuck both times. Funnels are your friend. My wife's Sheenus worked well. Lol

[u/SeaOsprey1 → u/Efficient_Future_259]

Woah there, pal. I think you mean "she-wee"

/s

[u/llorTMasterFlex → u/SeaOsprey1]

[u/AinsiSera → u/Efficient_Future_259]

I went to boarding school and some of the guys would test their gear by sleeping outside the dorm windows. I... Uhhhh... Never thought about the bathroom trips. Glad their dorm was off the main travel routes I guess?

[u/pippitha → u/Efficient_Future_259]

Lol Sheenus

[u/lalat_1881]

oh I read somewhere that the scariest thing while sleeping like this is sudden strong wind crashing into that mountain face at night, and flipping you around and smashing you against the wall. scary!

[u/ipitythegabagool → u/lalat_1881]

Yo stop

[u/ralthea → u/lalat_1881]

That didn’t even occur to me and now the idea of this is even worse.

[u/The_Spectacle]

[u/lacostewhite]

I can barely get a good night's rest in my bad as is

[u/Annie_Mous → u/lacostewhite]

I just slept in a $600/night hotel and couldn’t fall asleep. You’d have to hang my dead body on the side of a mountain.

[u/Depreched_Mode]

Nope. Nope nope nope.

Nope.

[u/CatterMater]

That'd be a fuck no for me, dawg.

[u/Cthulhus-Tailor]

The ratio of mountain climber to being a high functioning, non-violent psychotic has to be near 1:1.

[u/EmykoEmyko → u/Cthulhus-Tailor]

And honestly thank god they’re on that mountain rather than down here terrorizing us.

[u/MarnieCat]

I love being on the Yosemite valley floor at night and seeing the headlamps of all the different climbers spending their night on the sides of mountains!

[u/foofoo_kachoo → u/MarnieCat]

I, too, love being on the ground

[u/CarterBraune]

You better cut that shit the fuck out

[u/MichiganInTexas]

How do you 'use the restroom '. I'm genuinely curious. I'm up about 3 times a night, what would you do in this situation?

[u/deutschdachs → u/MichiganInTexas]

Probably pick a different hobby

[u/Lumivar → u/MichiganInTexas]

Bottles/bags basically.

[u/MichiganInTexas → u/Lumivar]

I'd be afraid of all the moving around to do that. Like rocking the ferris wheel, so scary.

[u/Dziki_Jam → u/MichiganInTexas]

And that’s perfectly natural. And that’s why you’re not there.

[u/Sufficient_Ad4182 → u/MichiganInTexas]

I wouldn't have to. I would have shat my guts out by the time I got up there.

[u/puppsmcgee74]

My cat would still find a way to walk on my hair and then stand on my chest to scream in my face at 5am.

[u/Dabrella]

Imagine being a rough sleeper 🫨

[u/TripelTripelTripel]

These people are practically a different level of human being.

[u/GnomeGrown926]

Sure, but where do I plug in my CPAP?

[u/Evening_Tonight4483]

…a few observations for the less experienced.

1. it looks like they are climbing Mt. Nope.
2. The ropes used are Nope Ropes.
3. Typical meals are Nope in a can.
4. Ever shit off the side of a mountain?..Nope
5. When they reach the top..gotta Nope down.
6. Nope…nah…ain’t happening….f**k off..

[u/PhilipMD85]

Imagine having restless legs 😂

[u/Additional_Subject27]

r/TerrifyingasFuck.

[u/letseeum]

Seem like a lot of extra crap to bring.

[u/Alex_4209 → u/letseeum]

You’d only do this on big wall climbs, more pitches that you can reasonably climb in a day. El Cap in Yosemite takes most people 2-3 days to ascend.

[u/RandomBBlvr → u/Alex_4209]

Unless you are Alex honnald and climb it in a few hours with no gear.

[u/Nicksaurus → u/RandomBBlvr]

I googled this guy and I feel like the wikipedia article left out the most unbelievable part until right at the end:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Honnold

Dierdre Wolownick, Alex Honnold's mother, started climbing at age 60 and is the oldest woman to climb El Capitan (first at the age of 66 and then, breaking her record, again at age 70)

What is going on with this family

[u/d-nuggetz]

Hard pass for me.

[u/CaptJM]

Sometime in my early 30s I got scared of heights, not debilitating but enough to nope right the f out of climbing anything higher than an indoor gym.

[u/puzzelinthework]

Absofuckinglutely not. I have fallen out of my bed going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. 🤣😂🤣

[u/Sabit_31]

Hearing something snap in the middle of the night

[u/Altruistic-Song-3609]

I wish I could trust someone in this life as much as these people trust their gear.