Prayers to their families. I have always had a fear of heights and every time I see someone hanging off a cliff with nothing between them and a thousand foot fall but a hand hole or a foot hole that can give away any second I just feel sick. I have heard that sick excuse that it makes them feel “alive”. I don’t understand this country, The government feels it has the right to tell you that you can not smoke (which I do deplore) because it is so dangerous to your health but then says nothing when people die from doing something so wreckless as climbing a sheer cliff with nothing to stop them from falling. Again, prayers to the family, I hope in their last second the climbers, or rather fallers, realized how their wreckless behavior resulting in death was going to hurt the people who loved them.
I totally agree.
From my back arcadia door I can see Camelback Mountain. Every year at least one person dies from a fall on it. People also climb it in the highest heat in the summer here in Phoenix. Dehydration, heart attacks just some of the other killers for those climbs.
Unless there’s a pot of gold, a beautiful set of twins or a wizard who will grant me my wildest desires...I’m not risking my life for “the thrill of it”.
I’ll make an arduous journey or trek or climb but give me something I can hold in my hand at the end for it.
Get high on endorphins and adrenalin...give euphoric and high awareness mental changes...strong reinforcers of behaviour..pain and fear be damned!
The government doesn't tell anyone they can't smoke. It only tells people they can't smoke in situations where it has the potential to harm other people who do not choose to engage in that activity. Mountain climbing does not have any significant ability to harm others who choose not to engage in that activity. (Yes, I do understand it presents some risk to rescuers.) In other words, the government, appropriately, allows us plenty of freedom to kill ourselves by engaging in risky activities as long as it does not present a significant risk to others.