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.

    • Boris NotTooBadinov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I almost played Russian Roulette once, thankfully I was late to the game. The guys wanting to play didn’t have a revolver, so they used a semi-automatic pistol. I really dodged a bullet with that one
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  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    Anvil firing

    You get 2 anvils, stack them on top of each other, the bottom one upside down, pack some gunpowder between them, light it, run, and the top one shoots off into the air and eventually comes back down.

    I’m sure it’s a blast (literally) but I’m not trying to looney tunes myself.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • eltrain123@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    I know you didn’t ask and probably don’t care, but free climbing and free soloing are different things. Free climbing uses a rope, but does not allow you to use artificial means to ascend, like pulling on gear you put on the wall. The gear is just there to arrest a fall.

    Free soloing is where you climb without a rope. Free climbing uses a rope for safety, but upward mobility is hands and feet on wall. Aid climbing is where you climb by fixing gear to the wall and use it to ascend.

    If you know what you’re doing, free climbing is pretty safe. Free soloing is not, but people do it successfully without their huge balls weighing them down.

    As a side note, bouldering is also climbing without a rope, but you don’t climb high enough to make a fall fatal.

    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Thanks! Yeah I meant free soloing. I was under the illusion that ‘Free Solo’ was just the name of the Alex Honnold documentary and free climbing was the term for the sport itself, like free diving.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Honestly, I don’t know what’s supposed to be fun about cave diving. Like, normal diving doesn’t push your buttons any more so the next logical step is to go diving in a grave?

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I did it one time with a pelvis area harness instead of the feet-hanger shit so I didn’t go upside down. It was like a carnival bungee jump thing that was about 80 feet high, cost $25 to do. It was scary as shit for the moment of falling but once the bouncing started it was pretty dang fun.

    • logos@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      You don’t need to do it upside down. The one time I went it was actually extra work to do it upside down.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      I did the reverse bungee jumping where they shoot you up like a slingshot (in a cage). I shit you not, 2 weeks later the cord snapped. Cant recall how bad the people got hurt or died but the place tore it down

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Free plummeting. Although that’s just a fancy way to say “jumping off of something really high and then dying when you hit the ground.” The problem is you can only do it once, but it will be the last extreme sport you will ever try.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      What about it, for curiosity’s sake? Is it the fumes? The crazyness of literally going so fast as to barely retain control in tons of metal? Or for things like motorbikes, doing all that without tons of metal for a modicum of protection? lol

      I love motorsports, but no matter the power source, the extreme stuff kinda’ takes having a screw or two loose…