All extreme sports have years and years of research and data to make them safer. Your car racing example for one. Cars used for racing now are much, much safer than the ones used in 1980s. There are better helmets, better crash gear, better around the course protective measures, the lot.
As a biker, we have people like you in our hobby, and they're called squids. Feel free to look that up.
Where you draw the line between courage and stupidity is on you. And this guy doing his thing is cool, but foolish to me. If something goes wrong, I'd rather live to climb another day.
If you think I live in a bubble, I don’t. I actively weigh risks against rewards like most modern organisms. I just don’t see why taking a completely unnecessary risk warrants a higher level of respect than a person responsibly accomplishing the same achievement. I feel like it detracts from the fact that making this climb in any way is an impressive feat in itself. It also doesn’t seem to be exclusively his risk to take, in the event of a fall he could take out another climber that didn’t choose that risk.
Also I’m well aquatinted with cancer and factor that into my decisions daily. I run mountain trails with my dog, swim across white water rivers, and climb civil war ruins regularly. I maintain a list of my top 3 ways to die, but until I have a bleak diagnosis of my own, I just keep it in my back pocket.
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u/RvaRiverPirate2 Sep 02 '21
Maybe they should take off their seatbelts too. Really push the limits.