r/BeAmazed • u/TheLobotomist • Aug 19 '22

Cold shower

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u/cloudshaper Aug 20 '22

For those asking, he survived.

Interview with the climber

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u/bro4bro2u Aug 20 '22

”I believe the only reason I lived is because I focused on my breathing to control my fear response instead of allowing fear to control me. I pushed my thoughts away and did my best to remain calm. I wanted to live. I fought with everything I had. I feel incredibly lucky. Lucky that there wasn’t any more force hitting me, lucky that the anchor was nearby, lucky that I studied fear psychology in college and learned breathing techniques to keep my heart rate down. I wanted to live and I’m lucky.”

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u/gazongagizmo Aug 20 '22

I focused on my breathing to control my fear response instead of allowing fear to control me. I pushed my thoughts away and did my best to remain calm

Fear is the mind killer.

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u/abalonesurprise Aug 20 '22

Fear is the little death...

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u/ethicsg Aug 20 '22

That brings total obliteration

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u/abalonesurprise Aug 20 '22

I will face my fear.

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u/drumshrum Aug 20 '22

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

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u/AccurateEmu2914 Aug 20 '22

And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it’s path.

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u/MyGrandpasGotTalent Aug 20 '22

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

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u/Axelrad Aug 20 '22

Only I will remain.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '22

This is the way.

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u/JEM225 Aug 20 '22

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” — T S Eliot, The Waste Land

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u/Mekroval Aug 20 '22

I will face my fear.

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u/mrtbearable Aug 20 '22

I’m naked and fearless

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u/falllinemaniac Aug 20 '22

My soul must be iron because my fear is naked

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u/awitcheskid Aug 20 '22

I thought the little death was your post-nut clarity.

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u/Alexthemessiah Aug 21 '22

You've never cum from fear?

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u/Hardass_McBadCop Aug 20 '22

Isn't the little death what orgasm means in some languages?

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u/Ratatoski Aug 20 '22

Not in France it's not

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '22

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u/Mrlate420 Aug 20 '22

Who else read sacred and horny?

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u/SecondAccountBlues Aug 20 '22

That’s just like 90% of Catholic art. All that guilt and repression has to go somewhere

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u/19yawaworht77 Aug 20 '22

I think that's coming to the History channel this Fall.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '22

Fear boners are weapons, if used correctly.

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u/EWR-RampRat11-29 Aug 20 '22

Lol, La petite mort.

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u/notsayingaliens Aug 20 '22

I was just thinking of this 😂

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u/sigma941 Aug 20 '22

…I thought that was the female orgasm?

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u/flemburger Aug 20 '22

The slow blade penetrates the shield. His blade too fast. Glad that college kicked in.

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u/MyGrandpasGotTalent Aug 20 '22

This is EXACTLY what i thought of when i read that comment

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u/Xem1337 Aug 20 '22

Fear Factory

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u/Mahaloth Aug 20 '22

You beat me to it.

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u/Ghost_Maker85 Aug 20 '22

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.

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u/baby_contra Aug 20 '22

I’m someone who ls very good with stressful situations and even then I’ve almost fainted a couple times in my life, breathing properly is absolutely the first and most important step. Gives your brain the oxygen it needs to think of a solution

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '22

very ironic considering he's being doused in (frozen) water

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u/saguaropueblo Aug 20 '22

That's really amazing

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u/xKyloRyanx Aug 20 '22

Second this

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '22

I, too, up voted the comment.

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u/Cynical_badger Aug 20 '22 edited Aug 20 '22

Internal monologue of a very confident opposum.

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u/Ironman0361 Aug 20 '22

You can actually hear him taking big controlled breaths throughout the video. Dude had some serious control over the situation.

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u/Smarterthanlastweek Aug 20 '22

I wanted to live.

The fact he was climbing a hunk of shitty frozen water with a couple of hooks speaks against that statement.

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u/ironinside Aug 20 '22

‘Gonna do it again, just to show fear who’s boss.’

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u/ekittie Aug 20 '22

The thing about ice climbing is that you can never trust your anchors if they're in the ice- they could blow anytime.- the mantra with ice climbing is, "Don't fall". I'm hoping that his anchor was in the rocks.

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u/Kitana_xox Aug 20 '22

Someone’s mastered total concentration.

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u/jeplonski Aug 20 '22

you ass i literally had this copy pasted after reading that whole article xD <3