Personally I’d say cave diving. I was contemplating between that and free climbing soloing but I honestly rather fall to my death than drown in a claustrophobic, dark, cold, silted up cave.
Extreme Cave diving.
all cave diving is extreme
Edd Sorenson has some fantastic cave rescue / body recovery stories incase anyone’s interested. The dude is an absolute legend in the cave diving circles.
Cave diving is a good one. But also underwater cave diving, if that’s the right term. Seeing pictures of those those “don’t go beyond this point you will die” signs underwater is pretty dang spooky
Extreme ironing. I don’t see the point of dragging a board and iron anywhere. Even at home I’d rather wear wrinkles than open that board. (which is why I buy perminant press church clothes)
wingsuit. How do they even train?
You’re probably talking about proximity flying. I’ve done a bunch of wingsuit flying, in groups, from a plane. Skydiving but with wingsuits. With all of the correct training and gear, it felt completely safe.
I never BASE jumped, but when I was skydiving a lot I was considering giving it a go, but still leaning towards the ‘nah that’s probably a bit too dangerous for me’ side.
Then there’s base jumping with a wingsuit… Something that if I had gotten into base jumping, would still have probably been too scary.
Then, about 100x more dangerous and terrifying than all of that, is proximity flying - wingsuit base, with the intention of staying close to terrain the whole time. These psychos fly through valleys, between trees etc…
Knowing what I do about how tricky it is to fly a low-performance, gentle easy wingsuit in a stable formation, the idea of flying these bigger, twitchier high performance wingsuits through a valley just seems suicidal. Absolutely nope.
Yeah thanks, I meant the proximity flying with a wingsuit where they fly very close to the terrain. I live close to a mountain where they are doing this. The videos are stunning but we hear about accidents regularly in local media. If something happens your done. No thx: https://youtu.be/QKMkhCsgsas
Given a chance to truly fly, you’d pass on that?
The kind of parkour runs which you do on top of high rise buildings
Anything with an internal combustion engine. Fuck that
Hard to pick one when I’ll never do any of them.
slope skiiing
I can’t tell if you’re trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you’re into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.
I would gladly skydive; but strapping some dead trees to my feet and hurtling myself at high speed towards a bunch of live trees, as though taunting them, seems like a bad idea.
Yes indeed, mocking gravity while hurling yourself directly towards the enormous local source of it all is much more sane (said as someone who has done plenty of both)
The one I would also most like to do, if only it was safe and I wasn’t disabled: wingsuiting. Even if I wasn’t disabled I still wouldn’t do it, just because I don’t want to die by smashing into the ground at 60 mph. But moving through the sky like that sounds incredible.
Yeah, free soloing is the one. I climb all the time, totally happy doing anything at any height with a rope but without one? Nah.
I just watched the documentary Free Solo last weekend. I have never been climbing, not because I didn’t want to. But now I also don’t want to.
My advice is to try it out at an indoor gym first! And also never to free solo anything! Ever!
Bull riding.
Wrecking ball duelling. But I’d pay to see others do it with each their own tower crane.
I’d be up for that if you’ll find me an opponent - and a crane.
I’ve done a little bit of cave diving. There are caves I would dive again, and some I absolutely would not. These experiences rank very highly among the coolest of my life. There’s things to see down there you can’t experience any other way. But yes, it is relatively dangerous and I spent a lot of time down there not thinking about how far away I was from the surface.
Too late:
E4
a lot of people saying cave diving and I agree it is fucking terrifying and you wouldn’t catch me anywhere near it but you are weightless, if you go somewhere bad you can almost always just go back. Dry caving however has this little thing called gravity, you can get stuck in a hole with no way out, I would honestly rather drown.
