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There’s some places on earth god never intended us humans to go.

NOPE!!!

why not just go super mario 64 mode in the panguin cave

When I was a kid, my daily route to school was very similar to this. And I didn't have all this gear, just slippers and a sweater and a backpack with a lunch box.

perfect example of how to arrest yourself and why you need experience before attempting such mountains

Holding his axe the wrong way round almost prevented him from being able to self arrest

Good reaction though

I was there a long time ago, it is really amazing. I did it in summer on a super clear day. Once you get to the end of the ridge you walk across the vallée blanche all the way to Italy with the Mont Blanc to your right and then come back with the cable car. The day we were there a bunch of tourist had ventured on the ridge with no equipment and regular shoes, after about 20 or 30 meters they had stopped and realised they were in terrible danger and didn't dare walking back. We had to walk them back one by one and nobody was hurt. Anybody can go there and nobody controlled anything. You just take the telepheric to the Pic du Midi from Chamonix and you get off near the edge of the ridge. On the left the ridge goes all the way down to Chamonix it is really very very steep and and far. The other side stops after a few hundred meters on the vallée Blanche. I will never forget that day.

If he had fallen screen right and unable to stop the fall , that would have been unpleasant but not so bad. Screen left however , it would have been possibly fatal, as it'a becomes steep very fast, and it's rocky. There is excellent coverage of this area on Google maps.

have to be mentally ill to put yourself in that situation to begin with

there are 2 things everyone who ventures out in the mountains MUST know. crevasse rescue and self arrest

He obviously has much experience. Look at how calm and decisive he acts since he slipped. He punched the hell out of that snowy slope to manage to get a grip.

Where is my son.. He should see how my way to school was before he starts whining of some stupid video games and TV series

Instead of spending money for a gopro, spend it to learn walking on steep snow and to learn self arrest manoever.

I remember a similar experience when I went hiking in 2020 on muddy terrain and my dumbass was hiking with under armour shoes 😅. That slip is no joke. To get through, I had to reduce my center of gravity and crouch my way along until it was safe.

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Cette action se passe à une altitude de 3800 mètres environ. Ce type est très distrait et insouciant sur une partie dangereuse de l'arête de neige parfois en glace. Heureusement qu'il savait stopper une glissade car il tombait du mauvais côté en face nord qui est très raide et souvent en glace vive. Je connais bien ce passage équipé parfois de cordes et pourtant terrifiant. De plus sa veste est faite dans une matière qui accélère la glissade au lieu de la freiner. Voilà comment on peut mourir en 1 minute par manque de concentration. 😅 🖖🏻😊🏔️🧗🏻‍♀️❄️

Holding the ice axe the wrong way...

Its always the fucking crampons on the pants

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I nearly had a heart attack watching ❤

Trousers filled 💩

That Ice pick actually saved him

Shows how important it is to use your ice axe on a passage like that.... with poles he would have gone...

The whites never cease to amaze me.

Nah, i'd survive

I'm sure several others have pointed this out, but he's lucky he didn't stab his eyes out, he self arrested using the wrong end of the his axe. Remember kids: Pointy-end in the SNOW, not your FACE. BTW, after further review, you can see he had been holding his axe correctly, but when he stopped to chat he switched hands and was more focused on the conversation than his axe, switched hands without rotating.

Id do that for 5 million views anyday!

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He is extremely lucky.

He rolled a ankle here. Didn't happen here but for novices it's easy to catch a crampon on a gaiter and stumble, you have to get used to walking on steep slopes with them.

Huh..Sort of missed a step, turned an ankle as he turned around a bit distracted from the conversation

We did this a week ago. With skis on our back! It´s a tricky thing and only thouse who stood up there can appreciate the brave reaction of the guy.

i saw that soft slushy snow made me cringe. Dangerous conditions. Great recovery though

That fall could've caused an avalanche if he'd not recovered it.

Really poor self arrest. Axe should be held with the pick facing rearward and not forward, and who is taught to dig in the adze and not the pick? Lucky for him it was not icy or he would never have stopped himself. Learn some skills!

Miał szczęście że nie pojechał na stromiznę...nie miał by już czasu

I remember going down it and back up it in 1992.

La position de ses pieds n'était pas bonne. Il a pris ses crampons dans son pantalon, c'est ce qui l'a fait tomber. Avec les crampons, règle no 1, marcher les pieds légèrement écartés afin de ne pas subir ce genre de mésaventure !

I've been on that fucker, and believe me if you slip you are almost certainly gone without an ice axe. If you go over the path without an axe, you are gone. No ifs. I was so scared of that descent, I thought about sitting down to do it, but you can't. You have to stand smart and keep your feet square against the ground at all times and trust your crampons. He obviously caught one of them on his other foot or leg.

shee chair - Aiguille means needle - I was at Chamonix a few years ago so I respect that stuff

I was terrified the first time I walked down that. Passing people coming up is the worst part.

I'm glad that this could NEVER happen to me because I have some self preservation skills and will never be in a situation like that😆

I will never understand people who carry a helmet but don’t wear it

One slide to either side. The speed at at which he will disappear is the speed it will take you to say "ohhhh ohhhh shit"

gopro instead of helmet, loose pickax, "look at all my stuff outside" backpack...

No ropes, pretty stupid.

Survival instinct of a deer

I suffered the same thing. I slipped and fell on my back like a turtle with my skis on my bag. The guide caught me before it was too late