@@deancj1 I think that calling him chief might have been the right call. While I don't agree with using condescending language often, in this case it hopefully helped to drive home the seriousness of the situation.
The pan to the cameraman and the niiiice absolutely seals this. I don’t enjoy icy rock climbing but the teamwork and encouragement and clear communication of what needs to be done is cool in this
Craziest fall I ever took was actually on grass. I was lulled into a sense of security because it was grass but it was crazy steep grass. Once I fell I really picked up speed. I ended up falling off a drop and landing in a tree. Moral of the story - never let your guard down.
Grass is terrifying! It does only take some tiny bit of humidity for it to become a slip-and-slide. There's a good reason some climbers wear crampons in steep grass (look up Rädlergrat, for example... some sketchy stuff in the German Alps)
this was also when no one made money off youtube. integrated ads didn't really exist, and there was only a few networks that would pay you outside of youtube
Yeah now it days it would be a 16 minute video preparing us on what we are going to see and describe the video like we’re blind. “Notice how the instructor says nice. Almost like he’s relieved of the situation” “ranier is a mountain located near Seattle Washington. That’s in the Pacific Northwest”. ugh shut up!
When I'm introducing new mountaineers to climbing on a moderate slope with an ax, it's always interesting how unnatural it is for people. Deliberately plunging an ax rather than just placing it to gently lean on and thoughtfully engaging as many crampon points as possible is a conscious effort for most amateurs. And about the criticism the camera man is getting for clearly verbalizing to "ARREST" will prepare the newcomers for when they are all roped up together and someone falls. Then the whole rope team goes into arrest position to stop the falling climber, either down a slope or into a crevasse.
Multiple people tied into same rope? So they can all potentially slide off the mountain? 3 max for glacier travel but after 25 years of mtn trips I never saw more than 2 together on a slope.
@@deang.7483 when climbing rock or climbing Alpine routes, where crevasses aren't the objective hazard, two people on a rope is pretty standard. Glacier travel is a whole different beast.
Yeah and like another comment said: it alerts everyone else and if they were roped together, they would act accordingly. Definitely an experienced guy there.
He would have been fine either way. it was 10m tops, soft wet snow and not even that steep. By the time he "self arrested" he was already at the bottom anyway. The leader is a drama queen.
I was down climbing, crossing the Bergschrung on Mt. Darwin in Alaska when I slipped and started down a long icy patch of snow that narrowed between two large rocks. I got my axe point quickly into the icy snow and my body weight over it. Luckily I only slid 20 feet because I was prepared for this. The acceleration was amazing though.in the first 10 feet.
Yeah it's amazing how fast you accelerate. Different situation, but I let go of a rappel once and fell like 10 feet in what felt like a fraction of a second before I grabbed it again
In the 70s my brothers team on the Matterhorn were passed by a couple of climbers , a while later they heard them falling , I believe there were a couple of other deaths that day.
Had a similar experience this summer on the Eiger. When going down we met a couple of basejumpers and had a nice chat. When we arrived back at our camping, the lady told us she was happy to see us since she just heard about a death on the Eiger on the radio and she knew we were up there. She then told us it was apparently somebody with a parachute. Kind of weird knowing that someone we might just have seen a couple hours ago just smashed into the ground from up there...
"The first order of business is getting my wits." That's actually solid life advice; Don't be too brash with your decisions. Don't allow yourself to be overcome with emotion because then is when the mistakes are made in difficult situations.
Nice verbal commands. In a difficult situation, things need to be kept simple and direct. You kept him focused on what was needed to stay safe and move out of danger. Respect for staying calm and showing experience in a sketchy situation.
I think yours is one of the best comments in this TH-cam comment section. You're completely correct about the good clear direct commands. I noticed that he didn't waste one single word. He only told the climber the exact instructions what he needed to do
None of it made sense until he turned the camera around. Edit people are sharing their stories, here's mine. I fell 40ft off the edge of a limestone quarry after sliding 10ft so I had picked up a lot of speed before going over. Should never have been there. I saw a ledge coming towards me very quickly as I was falling. I presumed that would stop me. I was wrong. Bounced off the ledge and fell the other 20ft head first luckily there was lots of scree on the bottom and I put out my hands and it kinda cushioned the impact. Thankfully I had no head injuries but it left me with life changing injuries. The ledge I collided with on the way down broke my heelbone, ankle and 3 metatarsal on my left foot and broke my ankle on my right foot. I had to wear a special kinda boot for 2 weeks in the hospital. It inflated every 20 seconds to squeeze my foot because they couldn't get the swelling to go down before they put on a cast. The pain for those two weeks was excruciating. Broken bones getting squeezed all day and night for 2 bloody weeks. Life lesson learned. Don't be show off and always have a moustache for maximum protection while climbing and in bed.
Same, only in the Tetons, Wyoming, USA: I knew I wasn’t going to die because I had an Ice Axe! You must have an Ice Axe when hiking in snow. I even, lovingly, held my rental Axe, in the hand, until I got back to the Parking Lot.
Years ago I went on a winter mountaineering course in Scotland first days training was crampons and ice axe arrest you never think you'll use it. Four days latter descending a mountain in a blizzard my leg fell through and into a void in the snow pitched me head first downhill with a thousand foot drop, the training reflex(and wanting to live) kicked in immediately and with my upper body weight over the axe the axe bit swung me up hill and stopped me..... Great memories and great training ftom Martin Moran RIP in Scotland (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Moran_(climber)
I want to experience something like this with people like that. Being out there taking in that beauty with experienced people who genuinely want me to experience it with them would be great
You'd be amazed at the number of people who don't react correctly in an emergency. Reinforcing someone's training through a keyword can be the difference between life and death.
Contextually it's pretty clear the guy who slid was a relative novice, the whole point of training someone is helping to break through instinctive panic so that their theoretical knowledge can assert itself and gradually become muscle memory.
I slipped on a rope on Mt Ranier and was caught by my guide before I had the chance to arrest. Even in the half a second I slid it was amazing how fast I accelerated
It gets pretty fucking hot during the day above the treeline. The sun is much stronger at higher elevations and it's compounded by the reflection off the snow.
This is likely in the summer months when it's warm out during the day but all the snow from the winter hasn't melted yet. Very common at high elevations
It sounds weird but, like other people have mentioned, it get's hot up there. If the geography is right it can get incredibly hot (we're talking over 90 F) because the snow and geography makes the mountains act like a solar oven.
For anyone that was like “the hell is does he mean arrest?” I had to Google. Let’s see how many “actually” comments I get. Self-arrest - a technique employed in mountaineering in which a climber who has fallen and is sliding down a snow or ice-covered slope stops the slide by themselves without being attached to a rope or other belay system. Ice axe is dug into the mountain.
Ypu basically turn your belly pointimg tje slope n use you feet and your hands as anchors, if you have crampons or snowshoes you need to sticj them in the snow n if youve got n axe than better use it..i trained this in the mountaneering school n its nice to practice it before going to a place with high risk
My comment appears to be from two years ago. I was probably defending the guides actions, regarding a negative comment. Can’t remember. Not great with computers.
Do you arrest by slamming the axe in to the ground? Or is it a gentle thing where you can change the angle so stop slowly? Obviously not a climber here just interested in the "science" of it I guess. I can imagine that maybe stopping too fast...you could lose grip on the axe?
What's crazy is I figured out what self arrest is just by reading the sentence it's used in. Just like school taught us lol. I knew he had to stop and secure (or arrest in other words), and it obviously had to be done by him (which is why the term self is also used). Amazing doesn't everyone agree? 😁😁
Is the yelling "ARREST!" to help him remember what to do? Because lemme tell you a lifetime of being told "stop drop and roll" doesn't actually mean you'll do it when you're on fire.
Looked like a new climber and he was taking a little long to start the procedure. Same thing I would do. I KNOW what to do but have NEVER climbed. lol Once the adrenaline goes, you better hope you trained properly under stress or you will go blank.
Have a 60-year old mountaineer friend who used to be in the army. Told us how self-arrest training consisted in the whole squad standing in a line, facing the slope, and an officer pushing them from the back one by one.
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"Concentrate on what you're doing here chief..." This is the kind of guy you want in your climbing team.
Big time. Pro right here
Except calling someone chief.
Said someone who is filming while traversing a steep slope...
@@deancj1
I think that calling him chief might have been the right call.
While I don't agree with using condescending language often, in this case it hopefully helped to drive home the seriousness of the situation.
@@Jinjukei
He likely had the camera on a chest rig. There is nothing wrong with doing that.
Nice try though.
The pan to the cameraman and the niiiice absolutely seals this. I don’t enjoy icy rock climbing but the teamwork and encouragement and clear communication of what needs to be done is cool in this
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That wasn’t a correct arrest - never even read him his rights.
U got a chuckle out of me 😆
That was dumb but its 3 am so you got a laugh out of me. Because of that you get a like.
You're going to obey the law of gravity whether you know it or not.
Dad level funny
Hi Dad
Craziest fall I ever took was actually on grass. I was lulled into a sense of security because it was grass but it was crazy steep grass. Once I fell I really picked up speed. I ended up falling off a drop and landing in a tree. Moral of the story - never let your guard down.
Grass is terrifying! It does only take some tiny bit of humidity for it to become a slip-and-slide. There's a good reason some climbers wear crampons in steep grass (look up Rädlergrat, for example... some sketchy stuff in the German Alps)
@@h.szymanski I just watched that terrain is lethal.
god your grand children are gonna hear this for years
@@elooouan Nope, it's all TikTok with them.
Me to. Slipped on a narrow band of snow, onto the grass, had to pole arrest
This is the TH-cam I want back. Short to the point vids of REAL experiences
this was also when no one made money off youtube. integrated ads didn't really exist, and there was only a few networks that would pay you outside of youtube
my fortnite experiences are real
@@Gunbudder ah yes....the days when people did it simply for fun.
Yeah now it days it would be a 16 minute video preparing us on what we are going to see and describe the video like we’re blind. “Notice how the instructor says nice. Almost like he’s relieved of the situation” “ranier is a mountain located near Seattle Washington. That’s in the Pacific Northwest”. ugh shut up!
@@Jsart87 it’s always a British guy or some dude with an odd voice too.
When I'm introducing new mountaineers to climbing on a moderate slope with an ax, it's always interesting how unnatural it is for people. Deliberately plunging an ax rather than just placing it to gently lean on and thoughtfully engaging as many crampon points as possible is a conscious effort for most amateurs. And about the criticism the camera man is getting for clearly verbalizing to "ARREST" will prepare the newcomers for when they are all roped up together and someone falls. Then the whole rope team goes into arrest position to stop the falling climber, either down a slope or into a crevasse.
What does arrest mean here? Digging in with axe to stop the fall?
@@lorcster6694Yes, the term that is used is "SELF ARREST", by stopping yourself under your own power using the ice ax. Cheers
Multiple people tied into same rope? So they can all potentially slide off the mountain? 3 max for glacier travel but after 25 years of mtn trips I never saw more than 2 together on a slope.
@@icejunki Thanks.
@@deang.7483 when climbing rock or climbing Alpine routes, where crevasses aren't the objective hazard, two people on a rope is pretty standard. Glacier travel is a whole different beast.
good job on chief's part, glad he was able to get his wits about him!
Lmfaoooo
He overreacts and then tells him to get his wits about him...smh
@@kjwerder he wasn't overreacting
If the moustache tells you something, you listen!
Am I the only one who despises being called "chief"? Or "boss"
If a man with a mustache like that calls you chief... you listen
4:3 and no stabilization, this is some classic footage.
Sooo raw. Nothing will ever be quite like it
Most people in this day and age would prefer watching the Hollywood production of this.
Love the “ARREST ARREST ARREST”
During times like that you can easily panic and forget what to do.
That was my favorite part too
Yeah and like another comment said: it alerts everyone else and if they were roped together, they would act accordingly. Definitely an experienced guy there.
He would have been fine either way. it was 10m tops, soft wet snow and not even that steep. By the time he "self arrested" he was already at the bottom anyway.
The leader is a drama queen.
easy to say from the comfort of your keyboard
@@ramdas363 maybe he's a beginner, teaching the proper behaviour is important
That was quick thinking on his part, a couple of seconds can be all the difference in a fall. Good video, Thank You.
I was down climbing, crossing the Bergschrung on Mt. Darwin in Alaska when I slipped and started down a long icy patch of snow that narrowed between two large rocks. I got my axe point quickly into the icy snow and my body weight over it. Luckily I only slid 20 feet because I was prepared for this. The acceleration was amazing though.in the first 10 feet.
Yeah it's amazing how fast you accelerate. Different situation, but I let go of a rappel once and fell like 10 feet in what felt like a fraction of a second before I grabbed it again
That mountain has a very unfortunate name for anyone to die on
@@bentrod3405 I'm still laughing. Thank you
In the 70s my brothers team on the Matterhorn were passed by a couple of climbers , a while later they heard them falling , I believe there were a couple of other deaths that day.
Jeez thats horrifying.
Had a similar experience this summer on the Eiger. When going down we met a couple of basejumpers and had a nice chat. When we arrived back at our camping, the lady told us she was happy to see us since she just heard about a death on the Eiger on the radio and she knew we were up there. She then told us it was apparently somebody with a parachute. Kind of weird knowing that someone we might just have seen a couple hours ago just smashed into the ground from up there...
Cool.
"The first order of business is getting my wits." That's actually solid life advice; Don't be too brash with your decisions. Don't allow yourself to be overcome with emotion because then is when the mistakes are made in difficult situations.
Nice verbal commands. In a difficult situation, things need to be kept simple and direct. You kept him focused on what was needed to stay safe and move out of danger.
Respect for staying calm and showing experience in a sketchy situation.
I think yours is one of the best comments in this TH-cam comment section. You're completely correct about the good clear direct commands. I noticed that he didn't waste one single word. He only told the climber the exact instructions what he needed to do
None of it made sense until he turned the camera around.
Edit people are sharing their stories, here's mine.
I fell 40ft off the edge of a limestone quarry after sliding 10ft so I had picked up a lot of speed before going over. Should never have been there. I saw a ledge coming towards me very quickly as I was falling. I presumed that would stop me. I was wrong. Bounced off the ledge and fell the other 20ft head first luckily there was lots of scree on the bottom and I put out my hands and it kinda cushioned the impact. Thankfully I had no head injuries but it left me with life changing injuries.
The ledge I collided with on the way down broke my heelbone, ankle and 3 metatarsal on my left foot and broke my ankle on my right foot. I had to wear a special kinda boot for 2 weeks in the hospital. It inflated every 20 seconds to squeeze my foot because they couldn't get the swelling to go down before they put on a cast. The pain for those two weeks was excruciating. Broken bones getting squeezed all day and night for 2 bloody weeks.
Life lesson learned. Don't be show off and always have a moustache for maximum protection while climbing and in bed.
The guy with the manly-mustache. With camera on. Calling him “chief”. So fitting and so epic....on so many levels. Hilarious.
2012 was your year
Chills watching this. Just learned self arrest last summer for camp counselor training and I’m so glad I know what to do in situations like this now
"arrest, arrest, arrest!" "A rest? That'd be great, my legs are burning."
"A rest! A rest! A rest!"
"Now's not a good time for resting, can't you see i'm falling? Maybe after we clear this ridge."
That elegant mustache is what keeps this man on any mountain. It will never allow him to fall.
Steepest ascending descent I've ever seen.
Same, only in the Tetons, Wyoming, USA: I knew I wasn’t going to die because I had an Ice Axe! You must have an Ice Axe when hiking in snow. I even, lovingly, held my rental Axe, in the hand, until I got back to the Parking Lot.
Years ago I went on a winter mountaineering course in Scotland first days training was crampons and ice axe arrest you never think you'll use it. Four days latter descending a mountain in a blizzard my leg fell through and into a void in the snow pitched me head first downhill with a thousand foot drop, the training reflex(and wanting to live) kicked in immediately and with my upper body weight over the axe the axe bit swung me up hill and stopped me..... Great memories and great training ftom Martin Moran RIP in Scotland (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Moran_(climber)
Thanks for the random recommendation TH-cam, over 10 years later.
I want to experience something like this with people like that. Being out there taking in that beauty with experienced people who genuinely want me to experience it with them would be great
Great username my friend
@@mindsauce3 thanks
It’s out there man, just have to get up and do it
What if you dropped your wits further down? Do you go and get them or continue on witless?
“First order of business is getting my whit’s”
This man is a genius
They should play this in the the big advertising screens in new York
Wits*
There's nothing less calming than somebody yelling arrest when you're trying to self arrest.
You'd be amazed at the number of people who don't react correctly in an emergency. Reinforcing someone's training through a keyword can be the difference between life and death.
Contextually it's pretty clear the guy who slid was a relative novice, the whole point of training someone is helping to break through instinctive panic so that their theoretical knowledge can assert itself and gradually become muscle memory.
I slipped on a rope on Mt Ranier and was caught by my guide before I had the chance to arrest. Even in the half a second I slid it was amazing how fast I accelerated
That mustache can tell some stories I bet.
Why is no one talking about the guy wearing shorts 😂😂😭
Lol right
It gets pretty fucking hot during the day above the treeline. The sun is much stronger at higher elevations and it's compounded by the reflection off the snow.
My thoughts exactly!
This is likely in the summer months when it's warm out during the day but all the snow from the winter hasn't melted yet. Very common at high elevations
It sounds weird but, like other people have mentioned, it get's hot up there. If the geography is right it can get incredibly hot (we're talking over 90 F) because the snow and geography makes the mountains act like a solar oven.
Bros definitely a firefighter, especially with that stash 👌🏿
I watched this video twice. This is one of very few videos that I've watched twice in a row back to back.
The power of the mustache is overwhelming.
The moment he started screaming arrest, I started running, and I don't know why.
For anyone that was like “the hell is does he mean arrest?” I had to Google. Let’s see how many “actually” comments I get.
Self-arrest - a technique employed in mountaineering in which a climber who has fallen and is sliding down a snow or ice-covered slope stops the slide by themselves without being attached to a rope or other belay system. Ice axe is dug into the mountain.
Actually you can be attached to a rope and still self arrest lol
@@driver3899 hahaha well thank you I didn’t realize that. Glad you saw the humor in it.
@@MattLaneFitness haha you gave a good explanation though, just thought that might be of interest
Ypu basically turn your belly pointimg tje slope n use you feet and your hands as anchors, if you have crampons or snowshoes you need to sticj them in the snow n if youve got n axe than better use it..i trained this in the mountaneering school n its nice to practice it before going to a place with high risk
learned it from mw2
People can talk about the mustache all they want but the lad climbing in fricking cargo shorts is hilarious.
The moral of the story:
When choosing a guide/instructor for dangerous outdoor activities, always go for the guy with the biggest moustache.
"First order of business is get my wits" I've got to remember that one 😊
Now that’s someone who truly cares about his friend’s life
th-cam.com/video/Ui-xsWZq4fk/w-d-xo.html ,
you're a good man to have on the team
The Doc climbing mountains now?
The shouting is entirely justified. Because next time there might be no margin of error like in this example. Falling like this is not an option.
It clearly is, as proven by this video.
falling was literally the only option we saw
I don't think a guide would take someone where, "falling is not an option."
@@billr5842 of corse they do. Mountains are dangerous terrain
@@TheSeppentoni It's going to be pretty easy then.
This is going to blow up in no time
Great vid. Self arrest is never as easy in real situations as it is when you practice it.
Props to the camera man for having his priorities in line
Arrest! Arrest! Arrest! You're under arrest! Get on the fucking ground! Don't fucking move! I said DON'T FUCKING *BAM BAM BAM BAM*
This video is going to have over ten million views by the end of 2022
The dudes nice and mustache at the end killed me lol. Love to have a Cheech or gurgle with this guy
This will have millions of views and become a great comment section
you ever think of hiking as extreme walking
looks to me like he didnt have far to slide, but self arest is a very important skill and its good to practice so its second nature.
ALWAYS arrest. He could have easily broken an ankle in that run out.
@@johntuttle9544 yep rocks down just below he could have been lucky and not get injured but imagine getting down that peak with an injured leg
Could have been camera angle or distortion. Things always look more tame on a video especially one with a wide field of view like a gopro
that was a bone shattering fall if he slid the whole way. He arrested before the guy even shouted. a 20 foot slide into rocks would hurt bad
@@SourCyanide death, he would have cart-wheeled, flipping and destroying his body massive trauma
THAT PAN BACK TO HIS FACE WAS EPIC
"Concentrate on what you're doing here chief!".. then takes selfie
This popped up on my feed and I thought that someone was performing a citizens arrest while climbing down a mountain.
What happened was much cooler.
i cant believe some dude got arrested all the way up there. im glad the iceAx is getting credit at least
You obviously don’t climb. The guide did EXACTLY what he should have. Likely saved the guys life twice, there.
Who are you bitching at?
@@ispartacus1337 lolol
The guy saved his own life, chief. The guide just reminded him to do it. 😉
My comment appears to be from two years ago. I was probably defending the guides actions, regarding a negative comment. Can’t remember. Not great with computers.
Dude almost died, he’s more concerned about the video if he can show off his near death experiment on social media! Haha
The sound of a true mentor.
I can't master my stairs at home with enough consistency to contemplate this type of adventuring.
Wish u woulda turned that camera left so we could see what he avoided falling down. Quick reactions all around
26th May 2023
Mt Fuji in October.
Currently watching Everest. 1 hour 23 mins in.
When that cameraman falls on a mountain the mountain self arrests it's self from him and that bad ass mustache of his.
Did her ever get his witts
Nice ‘stache, chief.
Do you arrest by slamming the axe in to the ground? Or is it a gentle thing where you can change the angle so stop slowly? Obviously not a climber here just interested in the "science" of it I guess. I can imagine that maybe stopping too fast...you could lose grip on the axe?
It's essential braking the fall as fast as possible, before speed becomes an issue.
There's a strap on the axe, supposed to hold you by the wrist.
When a man with a caterpillar on his lip calls you chief and tells you to focus, you gotta lock in
I can never be in a crew with the always overstate everything guy
Great Self Arrest. Now you will never have a problem performing anytime in the future.
After the self arrest comes the hard part: getting back up the slope.
I was expecting an ice agent to arrest himself but this was cool too
TH-cam thinks I’m a mountain climber now
Good video. Even better mustache.
What's crazy is I figured out what self arrest is just by reading the sentence it's used in. Just like school taught us lol. I knew he had to stop and secure (or arrest in other words), and it obviously had to be done by him (which is why the term self is also used). Amazing doesn't everyone agree? 😁😁
Great mustache my man
Mans climbing an entire mountain in shorts
Did this person just almost die? I couldn't tell by the angle.
That was actually a pretty good self arrest.
Nice save bro. Well done.
Thanks for the video. Whose face is at the end? He looks like one of the Navy Corpsmen at one of my previous units years ago.
Hey its the guy from "you're not that guy pal"
Is the yelling "ARREST!" to help him remember what to do? Because lemme tell you a lifetime of being told "stop drop and roll" doesn't actually mean you'll do it when you're on fire.
Looked like a new climber and he was taking a little long to start the procedure. Same thing I would do. I KNOW what to do but have NEVER climbed. lol Once the adrenaline goes, you better hope you trained properly under stress or you will go blank.
There's always that dude in shorts, no matter how cold
What are the next steps that the fallen guy has to take? He’s not going to climb straight up so where does he go?
ARREST! OK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY
I was honestly waiting for someone to be put under citizens arrest on this mountain
Hiker one: ARREST ARREST!!!
Hiker two stabbing the snow: STOP RESISTING!!
Why does he advise to go up the short side? Just because it’s less steep?
Yes and perhaps the snow he just fell down is too unstable to climb back up
is that guy wearing shorts while climbing the mountain?
Dang, those cops are everywhere!!
Guy filming is the guide? Immediate clear and urgent instructions. Boss.
This is an instructive class. Right?
Lots of rabbit tracks,........ I wonder how they self arrest,....... cool video
I have climbed this hill many times in IGI-2 'The weather station' level. 😊
Did that in military training. Feet first on front. Feet first on back. Head first on front and head first on back. Great fun.
Have a 60-year old mountaineer friend who used to be in the army. Told us how self-arrest training consisted in the whole squad standing in a line, facing the slope, and an officer pushing them from the back one by one.
We all know that guy that wears shorts NO MATTER WHAT
What exactly is an arrest in climbing?
The Americanism is strong with this guy
Where was he really going there was a rock field at his six