That seems like a good reason not to go skiing there.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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Or you can just stick to the marked runs. Off-piste skiing is always more dangerous.
But that would require at least a couple of functioning brain cells.
this is how my parents used to go to school
Mine had to go uphill
Mine had it uphill both ways...
And why classes were a lot smaller in those days
I fucking hate that apparently it's necessary to add a countdown to keep people's attention for more than two seconds and I have ADHD.
Same here, I thought "if something screams tiktok, than this"
Same, and I'm not well-versed into the neurology of it all but I think it's something way worse than the symptoms of ADHD.
Five seconds is well within my attention span. I forget everything the minute I open a door or open a new tab, but this ain't that. I can watch something in silence, my brain distracts itself, that's kind of the whole problem. This though? This is about promising an impending dopamine hit to a restless junkie who was about to scroll down for a quicker hit.
No, scratch that. This is about the video editor constructing a strawman of that restless junkie, pandering to that, followed by a (proto-)fascist algorithm eeking out every last bit of video retention from its users for maximum profit. Even if 95 % of users don't actually need the countdown to keep watching, and the 5 % remaining really should not be using that app for their mental well-being, the algorithm will mercilessly incentivize creators to put in the countdown.
Since legislating algorithmic attention-hoarding doesn't sem likely to hit the political docket anytime soon, the only winning move is not to play.
Yeesh! Pretty sure this is why you're supposed to stay on trails.
Anyone else notice how brown the snow was after home landed.
Never seen someone shit themselves so hard.
Keep your eyes open, or... don't ski on a fucking glacier??
Hoooooolyyyyyyyy fuck that is a 10/10 code brown 😱
Came here to complain about this not being a shitpost, then I saw the brown snow 😐
I would have absolutely soiled myself.
Brown snow checks out
Darwin Award Nominee
Apart from "Darwin Award" being pseudo-scientific and eugenicist-adjacent: Skiing is considered "Darwin Award" worthy, now? O.o
idiotic suicidal extreme sport like this is, definitely
this wouldn't happen when prepared adequately and behaved appropriately
this wouldn't happen when prepared adequately and behaved appropriately
I agree. But this is hardly extreme skiing.
If this qualified for your stupid "haha, someone who 'deserved it' died" award, then you could give that out to 80% of people staying in a hut in the alps.
nope. this is off track extreme stuff (probably dropped off with a helicopter) and has nothing to do with regular alpinism
It's way more likely to be ski mountaineering. It's quite common in the alps and you almost never go on prepared tracks when you do.
If that's "extreme", then Austria is full of extreme sports folks.
It should. And this ain't skiing. This is skiing in unknown unmaintained and unsafe terrain.
And this ain't skiing.
Sorry to be so blunt. But you're either very dumb or you have no idea about alpine skiing.
And I need to reiterate that the Darwin award is pseudoscientific and eugenicist-adjacent.
Yes. But is ice skating skating?
Skiing is usually used to refer to skiing on maintained ski areas downhill or cross country skiing.
Doing it on foreign terrain which you clearly don't know well enough and at speed is leaving the bounds of regular skiing.
Skiing is usually used to refer to skiing on maintained ski areas downhill or cross country skiing.
No true scotsman fallacy. Also, you're pulling the "is usually used to refer" out of your ass.
Ski mountaineering is more like skiing than cross-country skiing. It's quite common in the alps to do that and you almost never go on prepared tracks. The mountain where I spent my teenage winters after school doesn't even really have an official, prepared track for about 75% of the skiing terrain, because it's too steep.
As I said: you have no idea.
Doing it on foreign terrain which you clearly don't know well enough and at speed is leaving the bounds of regular skiing.
I ain't saying it was smart. But it's not "extreme".
Edit:
Sorry, you weren't the person who called thir "extreme". But still: Basing whether or not something is considered as "skiing" on how well you know the terrain (they could have gone down that mountain for 20 times already, for all you know, since crevaces like can form after you've made yourself familiar with the terrain), or how fast you do so is just dumb. When does it stop being "skiing"? At 20km/h? At 35 km/h? 27.5?
The guy doesn't have a guardian angel. He has a platoon of guardian angels working in shifts 24/7/365.
Small drones can prevent issues like this.
Not being a fucking moron and skiing in places like this prevents issues like this.
Fr he asking for it.
Love how he was like "oh shit a random crevasse that I almost fell down and died in! Well, surely there won't be any more"
When I was younger and stupid I decided to find fresh tracks off the main path with a buddy. I was in front and eventually decide to stop and look at the map to see when to cross back to a lift.
While sitting in the snow and looking at my map, the wind caught my map and it flew out of my hands and down the mountain. I watch this map fly down the flat face of the mountain and back up. It was then I realized that I was about 10ish feet before a cliff drop. My buddy was about to fly past me when I waved him to stop and he stopped even closer to the edge.
It took us 2 hours to claw and climb back up the hill were we came from. We went back down the hill and rested for that day.
Don't stray from the groom runs.