Posted on 11/23/2022 11:04:59 AM PST by nickcarraway
A woman plummeted 1,000 feet to her death after slipping off the edge of a cliff while hiking on a mountain in Italy.
“The news that arrived this evening of the tragic death of the young Maria Cristina Masocco, which took place in the afternoon in the mountains, strikes us in a truly profound way,” lamented Viviana Fusaro, the mayor of Feltre, Belluno, located in the region of Veneto, where the accident took place.
The disaster occurred around 4 p.m. on Sunday while Masocco, who lived in Feltre, was hiking with three friends in the Dolomites, the highest peak in which measures nearly 11,000 feet tall, Newsflash reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It’s not the fall that hurts. It’s the sudden stop.
She’s cute before the fall.
Visiting the Dolomites is on my bucket list, but I will look, not touch.
Darwin award nominee.
This reminds me of the occasional story about the person falling off Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park, CA. I have climbed that hike twice in my life. Its pretty intense. At the top there is a cable for crawling out on the ledge where a lost grip or a bad slip and its about 2000’ or more down to the base of the falls. At least once a year someone goes over. People, especially youth today, have no FOD (fear of death).
I previously spent a lot of time in the west. In Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Sierra Nevadas, San Juan Rockies, Front Range and Black Canyon to name a few places, I saw people and kids that were ill prepared and ignorantly behaving and every year read of such terrible events. I saw people on twenty inch trails in flip-flops.
You have to cut Timber Rattler some slack. He is incorrect in his statement, but if you dont use physics equations on some regular occasion for work or otherwise, they can be forgotten. You are correct that 9.8m/s is the average gravity acceleration on the surface of the Earth. Rattlers point was there is a terminal velocity due to atmospheric drag. That is a function of mass, area of resistance, and air density.
Yep, see my post 85. I’d bet all those flip-flop dare devils had at least one hand occupied taking selfies, too.
“…and bragging rights …”
Yup, not only do they forget that there is a risk but they become acclimated to the environment and may become less careful.
“ How long does it take to fall 1000 feet?”
Sqrt(2h/g) = 7.91 seconds, ignoring effect of air resistance.
How did the selfie turn out? Were they able to recover the SD card?
The farther you fall the higher you bounce.
“ The farther you fall the higher you bounce”
Depends (on the coefficient of restitution)
I love the dumbasses up in Montana that want to snuggle with Buffaloes and pet Grizzly Bears.
Comprehensive background checks for potential hikers?
Old school skydiver here... freefall table from memory out of the common basic blue pocket log book.
16’ fps + 32’ fps + 48’ fps + 64’ fps + 80’ fps + 96’ fps + 112’ fps + 128’ fps + 144’ fps + 160’ fps + 176’ fps = 1,056’
01 sec.-—016’ fps = 0016’ - Cumulative Distance Fallen.
02 secs.—032’ fps = 0048’
03 secs.—048’ fps = 0096’
04 secs.—064’ fps = 0160’
05 secs.—080’ fps = 0240’
06 secs.—096’ fps = 0336’
07 secs.—112’ fps = 0448’
08 secs.—128’ fps = 0576’
09 secs.—144’ fps = 0720’
10 secs.—160’ fps = 0880’
11 secs.—176’ fps = 1,056’ Terminal Velocity Achieved and... (in this instance) IMPACT with terra firma.
12 secs.—176’ fps = 1,232’ Freefall Speed Remains Constant (in a “relaxed frog” belly to earth, freefall position).
OK, so she didn’t fall in a vacuum. She’s still gonna ‘splode on impact.
Sometimes you splat and don’t bounce, it was just a generality.
I have had the unfortunate experience of doing skydiving accident investigations some 20 to 30 years ago. The clothing will often keep everything together and contained, but the crushing impact forces will rip seems in the body apart. The body being mostly water, does not compress well, and like an incompressible jello, will try to escape the human skin container. It’s not pretty.
The rest of one’s life.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.