Do not equate mountain climbing and cave diving. One is a nice hobby if done safely and the other is total madness.
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The fact that I can't tell which one you prefer is fantastic.
I think they're both insanity.
Rock climbing is cool though.
You think rock climbing is cool but can't tell which out of cave diving and mountain climbing is insanity?
Correct.
Rock climbing is super low risk. Especially if you do it indoors.
Mountain climbing and cave diving have so many factors outside your control it might as well be flipping a few coins and if they all come up heads, you die. At least in more controlled environments, even if that environment is still outside but in a well used rock climbing spot, your chances of death and/or dismemberment are much lower.
"Mountain climbing" is a generic term. It doesn't refer to a specific activity. I've climbed plenty of mountains. Half of them were a nice, leisurely 1-3 hour hike requiring nothing more than a free afternoon, a water bottle and a day pack with a couple snacks.
I'm kind of confused by the responses here. Idk if you guys just need to go outside more, or maybe I'm just spoiled, as at least half of the cities and towns where I'm at have at least one local peak. A lot of them are glorified hills with a good view. Many of them don't even have a view, but it's still fun to go up, be in nature, and see the different habitats, zones, and natural features as you go up. This is a casual activity for a great number of people. Some mountains even have actual paved roads/paths that gently take you up, but I prefer trails, unless I'm on my bike.
"Mountain climbing" doesn't have to equate to Everest/K2/etc. There are a vast number of levels to it. There are still dangers to what I do at my preferred level, but the life-threatening stuff typically only happens on much bigger mountains.
Maybe it's just me, but when someone says "mountain climbing" I assume actual climbing takea place.
Not a leisurely stroll on a hiking trail.
I think the fact that most people are acting as though they expect actual climbing as well is enough to say the general thought of mountain climbing is not to hike a trail to the top.
Every public crag sign and responsible gym will tell you that climbing is an inherently dangerous sport. We've had people die at the very "safe" gyms here. They make you sign wavers for a reason.
Mostly when you fuck up.
Very, extremely rarely is it due to the equipment.
But you can die thousands of ways even inside your home.
Climbing if done responsively is safer than walking in some parts.
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Listen man, I did (indoor) bouldering. For fitness. Any time people were talking about doing that shit outside, I noped the fuck away.
Because of this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lvoS4H9wR0
On 7/29/17 a 300 lb rock landed on my leg from a height of 10 feet. Because the falling weight/force of the rock upon impact was over 3,000 lbs, I believe it had only an indirect, partial impact to my leg,
Fucking no. I'm not going to the outside where the holds might be wet, fall off, and cause me injury fucking up my training regimen.
I mean, I'm old and my back is fucked up, so I'm not doing it anyway, but I wasn't back then neither.
Nope. Excuse me while I jump out of this perfectly good plane.
That’s what you get for flying in the first place. Those things go down!
Spoiler : it's the cave diving.
I would love to do cave diving. Except every time you hear about an accident, it's usually some experienced diver who fucked up just a little bit and that meant death... And then like another 1 or 2 people die trying to recover the body.
Idk, pretty much all the deaths I hear about are open water divers who decided to go into a cave, ignoring the part of their training where someone shouts at them for an hour to never even think about going in a cave even a teeny little bit, no not even just the entrance, no not even just to look.
This includes people going in to recover bodies. You'll notice the people dying doing that are often military divers who've never been trained for cave diving (true of the recent Maldives incident and also the diver in the Thai cave rescue). I don't say this to be like oh training is some magical panacea but rather that you specifically really should not go in a cave even if you really want to without getting cave trained first. It's not even remotely the same thing as open water diving.
Oh and yeah it's definitely cave diving that's the insane one. Never done it myself and never will but it's an interest of mine because of all the procedure, backups of backups, redundancy etc needed to make it safe. It's more like spacewalking in that regard.
Rock climbing is very cool—agree
I mean I don't know if I've climbed any mountains but I've walked and run (when I was young and hyperactive) up a few really cool ones. Mountains are nice.
Bro, you're missing out. Bro just please squeeze into the 30 cm crevice with me bro. It's so worth it, at the end well even see rocks bro, it will be so cool.
There's gotta be something wrong with these people. Like real life morbid vore.
That hole... It was their hole...
I get disoriented going to the bathroom at night.
How
Is moving through your home not second nature
No, I'm wired for underwater caves and crevasses
Mountain climbing is fun, fairly safe, and good for ya.
Rock climbing though? Yeah miss me with that shit.
The safety depends entirely on what mountain you're climbing, in what conditions, and with what gear.
True, not talking about Everest. I was just thinking of my own experiences, which usually involve a path of some sort, kept or not. I'm not trying to go where no person has gone before.
You seem like the right person to ask this question...where does "hiking up a mountain" end and "mountain climbing" begin? Is it scrabble-related? A specific incline? Mostly in your heart, maybe?
One is on foot the other involves your hands and if you're not insane rope.
I like other dude's answer, but I'll add that short of near vertical rock faces. I carry anchors, but rarely need them.
Edit to add: fuck it, who am I to gate keep‽ Hiking up a mountain is climbing one.
Mountain climbing? Maybe.
Cave diving? Nope nope nope, fuck that. Fuck spelunking too if it involves more than crouching a little bit.
You know, when you're spelunking and you see a tiny little crevice at the bottom and it's dark and you're like, wow, could I fit through there? Probably not. Or maybe I could go through, but I can't get back. Let's try.
Huur duurrrrrr
Whaaaaaaat? But I just wanted to invite you to the infamous "get stuck here with a friend" cave! It would be so awesome, it would be so cool if you came!
You talking about the Nutty Putty Cave? I hate to break it to you, but they sealed the 'get your body stuck upside' part up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave
After rescuers concluded that it would be too dangerous to attempt to retrieve his body, the landowner and Jones's family came to an agreement that the cave would be sealed, with the cave as his final resting place, and as a memorial to Jones. Explosives were used to collapse the ceiling in the Ed's Push passageway of the cave close to where Jones's body was. All entry points to the cave were permanently sealed by filling them with concrete, making the cave system inaccessible
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What you're missing out on. (Not that I've gone myself.)
The idea of a “silt out” cave diving is absolutely terrifying to me. That you can accidentally kick up some dust and then you’ll have no idea which way is up or down, that you’ll be flailing around in the water and won’t be able to see anything is nightmarish..
If you're not suicidally stupid you'll already be holding onto the rope leading to safety with plastic arrows attached every few feet pointing to the exit so you know which way along the rope is out. Never let go of the rope! (You're usually tied to it also, but ofc you gotta unclip to switch rope or go around an anchor where the rope is attached to the rock)
The rope leads straight into a fresh pile of boulders.
In the case that you have an earthquake or something big enough to cause the cave to collapse yeah you're just dead. This is also true of rock climbing, or walking over a bridge
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Or getting into helicopters.
Sure, but have you considered sinkholes?
How I sleep listening to cave diving and mountain climbing disasters, knowing I'll never do either one.
I have an acquaintance that is into going cave diving in Florida. I've seen the pics and nope.
Mountain climbing and rappelling is a blast though. I'll keep my rock climbing relegated to the fun indoor stuff with a good belay.
I used to climb low E grades, you can't pay me to squeeze in a cave though. Fuuuuck that.
And then you pull your back picking up something small, or break your ankle because you stepped funny.
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Mountain climbing looks fun ngl, cave-diving not so much.
I actually sat during lunch with 2 mountaineering record holders when I did my mountaineering training with two record holders who spoke about all the fuckups they had and how one spent the night in a biouvac in a crevasse once and how terrible it was
Just what a guy doing his first mountaineering training needed to hear.. That and on the first day of training you're dumped in the middle of nowhere and told that everyone will fall in a crevasse during the training
I've done both and mostly agree with you but cave diving is something I far more suggest against than mountain climbing which can be rather enjoyable/
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