The Official Random Video Thread!

[Knotorious]

This is nucking futz! I've seen shorter lines at Disney World.

The Hillary Step is notorious for traffic jams lately. I keep massively big tabs on 8,000 meter peaks. Everyone wants to summit on the best of weather windows, so congestion is inevitable. If you have a two day window, responsible parties will wait until the second day to make a summit push. It can take a full hour to get everyone up over one of the steepest of portions of the Hillary Step and everyone has to pass one another on these very thin ridgelines (the ones shown in this video are actually pretty wide compared to other sections), affixed to nothing but ice screws and polypropylene triple braided lines...which are hardly an ideal fall protection combination.

On top of all of that, everyone making a summit push only has a certain amount of oxygen. Everyone agrees prior to the push that, if you aren't at the summit by "X" time, then you must turn back. But many people see glory a few hundred yards away and continue the push to the summit, and that's when shit gets messy. So many irresponsible alpinists will put their Sherpa and fellow climbers at risk just so they can make it to the top, followed by experiencing hypoxia or altitude sickness of both. They then require assistance from other people, and move at a painfully slow pace, putting others in their party at risk. It's a pretty common occurrence.

Great video.

EDIT: The congestion isn't actaully as bad as it can be in this video. Looks like a normal summit push to me.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[Mellow]

Catchy tune. Gonna be stuck in my head all day. Thanks for that. da da da

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Friend of mine did thst to me. So I thought Id share

 

[Knotorious]

That was 100% exactly like a train wreck. It was awful but I couldn't look away.

 

[Knotorious]

This is sick...

 

[Knotorious]

Whoah, this is some Batman shit...

 

[Kaveman]

After watching that, I'm going to put the gentlest hex on you I know.

"May you stub your toe, in broad daylight, barefoot."

 

[Maximalist]

 

[Knotorious]

Gator go weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[Knotorious]

Video entitled "Why The World's Tallest Tree Is Kept Hidden."

 

[Knotorious]

Video entitled "Why The Alps Are Falling Apart."

 

[gf beranek]

Much as I loath war I still find its history fascinating.

And no period of war defines that better for me than the recorded history of WW1 and 2. When technology changed warfare.

The rapid development of tech to thwart the enemy and the heroism demonstrated during those wars defines the absolute worst and the best of man.

And the beat goes on... God save us from ourselves.

 

[Knotorious]

 

[Knotorious]

Is this really practical or is this showmanship?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Does not always work. But handy if it does when you need to bridge the trunk of the tree over something.
Being something new and shiny on the interwebs, it is being tried a lot.

 

[Knotorious]

Sign this kid up. He'd better than many pros I've seen. This kids needs a sign-on deal. Goddamn.

I used to skate, so I know how hard these tricks are. Especially to do so many in quick succession.

 

[Burnham]

Made my knees cringe to watch some of those drops. He is good.

 

[Maximalist]

 

[Marc-Antoine]

My biggest fear about skateboard is for my ankles. Luckily, I have never put a foot on one.

 

[Kaveman]

Reckon he's done that before eh?

 

[Burnham]

Not how most would go at it, but it was cleanly done.

 

[Kaveman]

The Mighty Herc, puttin in work!

Rapid dragon is cool, but I always love seeing the C130 hitting the USS Forrestal CVN-59.

 

[gf beranek]

I traveled a few times across Vietnam in C-130s. They were like taxis. Coming in and taking off practically on the hour.

The first time, after take-off, I went up to the cockpit to checkout the controls, and much to my surprise the pilots were only a couple years older than me. I was 18.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

We found pretty annoying an unwanted knot on our ropes. Try on an anchor chain...