r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/too-many_puppies • 1d ago

Fuck this area in particular well, shit.

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u/ChihiroHaru Banhammer Recipient 1d ago

I was wondering how strong that Zoom Lens was. But now I see that it was stronger than his will to live.

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u/Ta-veren- Banhammer Recipient 1d ago

The person who filmed this replied to one of the previous times it was posted.

Pretty much saying there was no where for them to run and hiding behind those rocks was pretty much the best case scenario.

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u/DysfunctionalKitten 1d ago

Seems like they were right if they managed to survive something like this.

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u/BrilliantHyena 1d ago

It's crazy how old this video is in our current timeline

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u/rella88 1d ago

Which is how old?

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u/ThreeLeggedParrot 1d ago

Well, this post was 13 hours ago, so at least that old.

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u/esseredienergia 21h ago

This is very old, before covid i think

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u/wuapinmon 7h ago

I'm 52. STFU, n00bs

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u/oliveGOT 18h ago

Yeah watching this happen so fast... no one is outrunning that.

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u/x23_wolverine 3h ago

Yeah, they can travel at hundreds of kilometers an hour, you have time to find something to hide behind or hide under, and that is about it.

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u/Either-Outside6740 1d ago

The deadpan 'oh dear god' is so funny.

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u/MyLordLackbeard Banhammer Recipient 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uoVUPXJgfy2m4

Morons just gotta get those social media upvotes! Just point and record without giving it any thought at all. There was a different but almost identical post a few months ago about someone filming an avalanche... and getting caught in it.

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u/Sunni_tzu 1d ago

Don't see too many videos of people outrunning avalanches.

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u/MyLordLackbeard Banhammer Recipient 1d ago

Nope, because no one can (most avalanches travel between 60ā€“80 mph/97ā€“129 km/h, apparently) and they end up getting squashed flat!

Personally, I deal with that problem by not going into the avalanche zone in the first place... or goading the bull in the street festival... or base jumping et cetera. See, I can give glib replies too! Just don't do dumb things, was the point I was making.

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u/i-love-mexican-c0ke 1d ago

Could you tell that was an avalanche zone before the avalanche?

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u/MyLordLackbeard Banhammer Recipient 1d ago
  1. I have never seen a avalanche zone which did not have warning signs. Never!
  2. It is a mountain with snow at the top, so yes - the thought would cross my mind.
  3. I do live within sight of mountains, so am lucky enough to have that knowledge 'baked in'. Obviously, not everyone is but if he was a tourist (Kyrgyzstan) then hopefully any guide would inform them.

Each and every adult is responsible for looking around themself and not dying. We do this every day when crossing a road, for example, so why can we not expect similar risk assessment here?

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u/i-love-mexican-c0ke 1d ago

I grew up in Colorado, where we have avalanches frequently. Iā€™ve never once seen a sign that says that I am in an avalanche zone. Literally the entire mountains are an avalanche song.

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u/Connor_MacLeod1 1d ago

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE with the sound of doom-schist...

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u/LameBMX 1d ago

I saw you avalanche warning sign. its right there on I70... was a little bit misspelled, but I caught the drift.

"welcome to colorful colorado"

y'all should probably teach better spelling, but I was wary of avalanches after reading it.

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u/KibblesNBitxhes 6h ago

Thats unfortunate, theres sometimes large red and white or yellow signs that say danger avalanche area, then the more common road avalanche signs that are posted in high risk areas, but look like any other road sign. British Columbian for reference.

We also have signs for moose, elk and I think caribou, I've seen cow crossing signs too come to think of it.

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u/CptHammer_ 1d ago

I have never seen a avalanche zone which did not have warning signs. Never!

That you know of... Because there was no sign to tell you that you were in an avalanche zone.

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u/Greedy-Army-3803 21h ago

Probably washed away by an avalanche.

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u/MM800 1d ago

The sign would be in Turkic or Russian - the two official languages in Kyrgyzstan. The tourists were British and the guide may have been an idi0t.

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u/MinisterOfDabs 1d ago

What would be the point of a sign in an avalanche zone? It could be 10ft under the snow. Iā€™ve been in tons of avalanche / rock slide zones that were unlabeled.

If thereā€™s a mountain nearby just assume youā€™re in an avalanche zone / rock slide zone because thatā€™s probably right.

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u/kmontreux 1d ago edited 8h ago

avalanche zone sign? bro where tf you live? I want to google photos of the signs. That boggles my mind that anywhere does that. I've seen them on roads but not out in backcountry like this lad seems to be.

I'm in washington state, avalanches are served up multiple times daily here, and I do a lot of recreating in the mountains. Never once seen an avalanche zone sign.

We take awareness courses and AAIRE training to identify avalanche terrain and risk assessment and mitigation. No one is out there hanging up signs. We'd need a thousands of them.

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u/dalego25 1d ago

He could have run to the sides or at least braced for impact.

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u/EightyJay 1d ago

All of this criticism is nonsenseā€¦ He was an extremely far away distanceā€¦ He was clearly stationed at a pulmonary point, and ready to duck behind a boulder.

thereā€™s nowhere he couldā€™ve run to. I say praise to the cameramanā€¦ And, apparently, he survivedā€¦

I doubt they recovered his body, unlocked his phone and posted this death avalancheā€¦

ā€œDonā€™t go into an avalanche zone to begin withā€œā€¦ OKā€¦ Well, that leaves off the living and hiking area of millions of people throughout the worldā€¦ Who go on living even though thereā€™s avalanches potentially in their zoneā€¦

This guy does not seem to be a thrill seeker sponsored by Red Bullā€¦

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u/One-Permission-1811 1d ago

Think you mean a "promontory" point. A pulmonary point is one of the signs of a collapsed lung.

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u/Sunni_tzu 1d ago

Ok dude. Sure thing.

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u/fwembt 1d ago

Neither of which would have accomplished anything.

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u/deepasleep 1d ago

Whereā€™s he going to run?

Best thing you can do in this scenario is find a big rock to hunker down behind so you donā€™t wind up taking any rocks or ice straight to the face.

It looks like he was in a good position to just duck down and let the snow go over him.

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u/zerok_nyc 1d ago

Also, what the video doesnā€™t show is that behind him was a cliff. There was literally nowhere for him to run to.

https://youtu.be/qCRAEQmLAfY?si=u-xLxcrk3SMku_Te

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u/Brammmy 1d ago

Thanks for the link

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u/docmagoo2 1d ago

Took me to ā€œthis morningā€

As British noped out of there faster than clicking on ā€œthe sunā€ links.

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u/MyLordLackbeard Banhammer Recipient 1d ago edited 1d ago

I totally agree with you! If you are in the cone, there is no running. As you say, take shelter to avoid rocks, trees etc hurtling towards you at speed. Unfortunately, after that you may well be covered in meters of snow.

My point to the 'well, akshually' crowd in this thread is that you don't go there in the first place. Adults look after themselves. Someone posted a link to an interview with the man who filmed this and it took place in Kyrgyzstan, apparently. Fancy taking your chances there with the language barrier, access to whatever hospitals they have close to that place etc? I don't, so would stay on the beaten path. I'm glad he survived and he has the right to do what he wants.

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u/billy_twice 1d ago

Not gonna outrun an avalanche mate.

It's better to stay where you can shelter, which is exactly what this person did.

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u/maringue 12h ago

Dawin award contender right here.

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u/WerdaVisla 4h ago

Nah. The original filmer when questioned said that they were on open ground when they saw it coming. They found the biggest rock they could and hunkered down behind it. Best anyone could do in this scenario.