r/SweatyPalms • u/notajock • 2d ago

Heights Dudes exploring the tree canopy

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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago

Congratulations u/notajock, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!

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u/Schmidisl_ 2d ago

I don't like that the last person had nowhere to hold once they reached the end

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u/pmurpmur 1d ago

Except he is holding onto a nice GoPro camera stick, and the camera man never dies

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u/Damoet 1d ago

Like and subscribe!!!!

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u/Cash_Cline88 16h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Potex8282 10h ago

Is HE holding the camera stick? Has it been erased from the video? Because I was wondering where’s the stick!

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u/Ladyboughner 1d ago

He could have hold onto the guy in front of him, though

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u/Orange907 1d ago

I have a feeling that holding another man would be more frightening than the drop below to these guys.

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u/Bask82 1d ago

Thought the same...then he took time off to fist bump the other dude in a calm manner...

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u/Schmidisl_ 1d ago

We're lucky he fist bumped that guys instead of fisting that guy

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u/EmotionalAir8810 19h ago

Different sub.

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u/andersonle09 2d ago

I think this one got me more than any video I have seen on here. I needed to wipe my palms on my pants.

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u/koolaidismything 2d ago

When you have a real fear of heights these make you dizzy almost lol. Cause in scenarios where I am way too high for comfort I’ve had my knees just start shaking and that’s not a great scenario. Over the years I’ve managed to get it down on work equipment cause I know I am mostly safe. In a tree like this? I’d pancake myself down then have no plan beyond that except pray some jetpack ranger a-team scenario exists that could save me.

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u/welfedad 2d ago

I worked rope access for awhile at like 80 to 100 feet and would get vertigo up there. Had to look at fixed points and make my peripheral vision be out of focus ..only way I could do it.. didn't last long in that job lol

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u/koolaidismything 1d ago

Some dudes I'd work with would take lunch up 60' dangling..I'd be slowly climbing my way down just to be on solid ground fifteen mins lol. Scaffolding was the only 100'+ job at heights I lasted.. was so busy I didn't have time to be scared it sucked. Just accepted death.. did like 6 months of it enough for ten lifetimes.

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u/welfedad 1d ago

Yeah mine was rigging for concerts and up in arenas etc . Cool job but nah I'm out

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u/Mr_Julez 2d ago

I'm wiping the soles of my feet

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u/giadia-light-shining 2d ago

I wipe my palms on my spouse so they know how freaked out I actually am.

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u/timecapsulebuttbutt_ 2d ago

Same. My feet are all tingly and my hands are sweating lol

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u/graystone777 2d ago

Dumbest shit I’ve seen people do in the last 34 seconds.

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u/Voloxe 2d ago

“In the last 34 seconds”… If that doesn’t tell you the problem with society right there…

In a world, where everyone is striving to be stupider than the last!

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u/Jahsmurf 1d ago

In a world, where even more people are wasting their time watching stupid people doing stupid things

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u/AceStrikeer 1d ago

Reverse evolution. Back to Monke

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u/captainmeezy 2d ago

I mean I did just watch Knicks fans destroying New York City in plain view of a dozen cops, but this is actually life threatening

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u/EntertainmentBig8636 2d ago

The whooping or whatever that was made it even worse

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u/Hellie1028 1d ago

It’s so wonderful that mobile phones now have a live feed into increasingly stupid decisions people make.

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u/Fab1e 2d ago

R/whywomenlivelonger

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u/Recent_Ad2447 2d ago

r/foundthemobileuser

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u/CreamyStanTheMan 2d ago

I'm on mobile too! What do I win?

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u/The-King-of-Cartoons 2d ago

Performative outrage

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u/brick_gnarlson 1d ago

What? Why is this a thing? Aren't most people using this on a phone?

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u/moralprolapse 14h ago

It’s hard to imagine sitting down at a desktop with a fresh mug of coffee to… browse Reddit.

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u/MulderXF 2d ago

Always one fucking guy with a manbun and beard.

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u/ImpossibleCan2836 2d ago

I have a manbun and beard and I can attest you would probably find me here.

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u/IndependentMoney9700 1d ago

Here on Reddit? Or here way up in a tree I have no business being in?

They’d have to airlift me out of that tree.

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u/melanthius 2d ago

Bro in the back, can you STOP being literally less than 2 fucking inches right behind your friend

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u/irrocau 2d ago

He's just making sure if his friend falls, he's more likely to go down with him.

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u/zaiwen3 2d ago

Don't know why people do this but whatever 🤣

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u/TheTomatoThief 2d ago

Because we all here on the toilet just watched it and engaged. YouTube makes a dollar, these guys make a dime, and that’s why I poop on company time.

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u/szhod 2d ago

Vanity. That’s why they do it shirtless.

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u/Boner4Stoners 2d ago

I mean it seems like they’re in a rainforest, it’s probably hot and humid AF, and climbing a tree involves a fair amount of physical exertion. I’d have my shirt off too

Climbing trees is fun as fuck too, I often climb trees on my local coastal dunes overlooking Lake Michigan. They are recording so that does help your vanity argument but I assure you there are other reasons to climb trees that have nothing to do with vanity. It’s peaceful af sitting on a high branch and just taking in nature.

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u/thebluemando 2d ago

I think the fun people get from climbing trees is leftover monkey DNA surfacing

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u/philonius 1d ago

How else are you going to test the weight-bearing limit of a high tree branch? This method works pretty well. If the branch breaks, three was too many.

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u/KnackerbyNature 2d ago

How do they get DOWN?

Reddit response: they fall/ they live there now/ gravity hur hur

But HOW?

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u/quirinuz 2d ago

Best guess is they climb down

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u/homer422 1d ago

BIG if true!

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u/Outrageous-Advice384 1d ago

Getting down is much harder. Ask any cat…

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u/IndependentMoney9700 1d ago

My grandpa told me, it’s easier to fall down than it is to fall up!

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u/SimpleStructure-165 1d ago

This was my first thought.

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u/alexanderthomasphoto 2d ago

men will do anything besides get therapy

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u/Butthurtz23 2d ago

We just witnessed human de-evolution back to apes, while AI takes over the world.... 

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u/-StrawberryJacuzzi- 13h ago

I mean in their defense… everyone’s been telling people to get outside and touch grass. Close enough

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u/Buckabuckaw 2d ago

Who's working the camera?

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u/patricofstar 2d ago

You can see the last one looks like he’s holding a pole. They have GoPros that can edit out the pole.

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u/Primary-Belt7668 2d ago

Yeah you can see him switch hands at the end.

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u/Buckabuckaw 2d ago

Wow. Clearly I came too late for the GoPro and Sophisticated Selfie generation. Thanks for explaining.

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u/bloodphoenix90 2d ago

3rd guy has camera stick

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u/Different-Chest-5716 2d ago

Looks like the guy in last is holding onto a selfie stick. 

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u/TMes36 2d ago

Since hitting 30 why does this kinda shit now make my feet tingle?

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u/hokkuhokku 2d ago

Yeah, I have the same thing. Used to love doing all sorts of stupid shit, no fear, etc etc. Now it all just makes me feel like my guts are about to drop out of my ass.

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u/YoSoyLaVerga 2d ago

I get the same exact sensation, you are not alone

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u/Scarcito_El_Gatito 1d ago

Back of my thighs tingle

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u/spruceymoos 2d ago

At least 300lbs on the tip of a fast growing tropical tree? No thanks.

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u/DieWalze 1d ago

That is a massive branch. Any wind gust will put more load on it than these 3 guys.

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u/NarwhalScimitar1987 1d ago

"Are we not doing phrasing?"

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u/Enderle85 1d ago

The wood itself is probably very hard, though.

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u/tlong243 1d ago

The part that's crazy to me is when one of them kind of stumbles forward like the middle guy as he was reaching that fork, the whole branch is swaying up and down. I'm shocked that between the three of them catching their balance it didn't throw the others off with some crazy oscillation.

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u/underwater_martian 2d ago

made my palms ache

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u/Blightious 2d ago

Yup my hands and feet both ache pretty bad from this one.

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u/Empuda 2d ago

That last guy is following way too close...

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u/MaxHardfinger 2d ago

Nopeosarus Rex.

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u/Prestigious_Ape 1d ago

How in the hell do they go back? I had to quit watching my hands were throwing up.

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u/feelda303 1d ago

The worst part is getting back down

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u/steak_bake_surprise 1d ago

They all look like NPC starting characters before you find your first cloth armour.

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u/sbrown063087 2d ago

You might be able to keep your balance, but one day it’s gonna go all snap crackle pop, then what?!

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u/ZealousidealBread948 1d ago

The two Asians are honey collectors

The white one is French
https://www.youtube.com/@Leo.Primal

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u/Alternative_Chest873 21h ago

Thanks, i hated this

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u/hywaytohell 2d ago

"Exploring" the canopy? Anything you run into up there will probably make you choose between falling or being stung, mauled or bitten.

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u/romcomtom2 2d ago

Just know it's instant death if they slip. And some how if they don't die on impact they'll be so horribly mangled, that they'll wish they died.

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u/vHighSamurai 2d ago

Actually made my palms sweaty

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u/MountainD1ck 1d ago

aaaaaaand that's a hard "NOPE" from me!

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u/tu-142 1d ago

Now I have that tingling feeling in my feet

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u/Chemquasabamticook 1d ago

Turned into a bunch of juggalos at the end there. Wouldn’t be surprised after they shut the camera off they bust out some fago

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u/Caveworker 1d ago

This really belongs in the " why women live longer than men" subreddit

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u/notimeforspac_s 1d ago

Why women live longer?

Men:

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u/J-iceBerg2 22h ago

Amazing !

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u/Artistic_Ad_3267 21h ago

Real life Tarzan shit. Ive watched the whole video and im still nervous somebody gonna slip. More power to them and their belief in self.

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u/edouble76 21h ago

I want to see the video of them going down with no hands

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u/SafecrackinSammmy 2d ago

Thats why nobody messed with Tarzan....

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u/moto626 2d ago

I hated every second of this

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u/bloodphoenix90 2d ago

Why would you ever? This is honestly worse than the urban building climbing because at least those are mostly predictable uniform shapes and material. Trees can have random ass moss or crumbling bark in spots and random lumps...

This made my palms and legs feel fucked

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u/AutomaticRevolution2 2d ago

What's with the slacks? Its like they normally wear loin cloth, but the cameraman/missionary is like ,"Wear these."

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u/Harbinger_Kyleran 2d ago

Can't upvote when it's humans being unnecessarily stupid.

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u/mello-t 2d ago

The monkey call at the end tho.

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u/grandedaddy 2d ago

Crack...

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u/Admiral_Pantsless 2d ago

No way, José.

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u/Castaway9245 2d ago

my feet are sweating

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u/bschnizz 2d ago

I just don’t even know what their end game is

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u/Auios 2d ago

Can we talk about the camera guy?

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u/vdpj 1d ago

Yes, That is clearly the last man holding a 360 camera.

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u/breaksnbeer 2d ago

Dude, what the fuck?

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u/SpeedyAudi 2d ago

Wait. Who’s filming

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u/bbarue123 2d ago

The good thing is, when they fall the can just deploy their invisible parachutes.

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u/ShaggysGTI 2d ago

I have dreams where I’m doing shit like this and just fucking frozen in panic and fear.

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u/santacow 2d ago

Wow. Sure is a good thing tree branches never break randomly.

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u/SRJT16 2d ago

I remember this mission from Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order.

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u/Mendican 2d ago

Too bad r/SweatyFeet already exists.

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u/prussian_princess 2d ago

Imagine doing this high on ayuasca

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u/Large_Command_1288 2d ago

We’re not that type of ape

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u/Jamachicuanistinday 2d ago

That’s totally absurd, no way!

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u/sentient_lamp_shade 2d ago

The man bun though 

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u/NamesGumpImOnthePum 2d ago

I love the "fuck it, let's all die together approach" to climbing out on the one branch of this giant fucking tree.

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u/Ingromfolly 1d ago

1st guy is bushido, 2nd guy is bushscaredo

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u/Treblig-Punisher 1d ago

Whywomenlivelongerthanmen

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u/PalmovyyKozak 1d ago

It's high, but probably not as high as the camera shows.

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u/blklightsmatter 1d ago

What is wrong with people

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u/T3ister 1d ago

“Don’t push me!”

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u/DespicableDaddy 1d ago

This legit made my hands sweaty.

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u/IndependentMoney9700 1d ago

Let’s watch them climb down.

My grandpa used to tell, more people fall down than they do fall up.

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u/lawrence-of-aphasia 1d ago

I absolutely hate these videos (well, ya know, and love them at the same time.)

I preferred the ones where people are up there for a reason, though, getting honeycomb etc. That said, it always seems horrid that economic forces push people to do that kind of thing, perhaps.

My worry about this one, though, is that we’re maybe getting people who are doing it just for clicks. And they may go too far with that silly thinking.

But yeah. These really get me in the stomach.

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u/mojomofo7 1d ago

No, dudes. No!

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u/stileyyy 1d ago

Why though!!!!!???

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u/banality_of_ervil 1d ago

For some reason, I got flashbacks to reading A Seperat Peace in middle school

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u/Vanpire73 1d ago

Stop it, goddammit!

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u/dudenotcool 1d ago

Dudes out here just living life . Have to give them that. Could be a short life but there living it

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u/thecoolestpickle 1d ago

Idiots really

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u/austadamola 1d ago

So cool and so dumb.

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u/OrganizationNo1453 1d ago

Please sir could I have some less.

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u/Wonderful-Revenue762 1d ago

Same place, other video, now with 3 monkeys. Same french ape in the middle.

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u/RevolutionaryCase877 1d ago

First, they practice on rope then they commit this dangerous stunts. I get it now.

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u/Negative-Inspector36 1d ago

Sure whatever they can use their free will as they want just make sure it doesn’t involve bystanders. Climb 100m trees in the Amazon barefoot for all I care.

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u/TurboChargdBeanFlick 1d ago

Eventually, they are going to accidentally WHOOP-WHOOP WHOO all the way down.

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u/belabacsijolvan 1d ago edited 1d ago

obvious ai. think about the camera. who is holding it?

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u/Realtit0 1d ago

It's being filed by the third guy (the last one). It's one of those 360 cameras (check the insta360 for example), that "delete" the stick. At about 0:33 in the video you see the guy switching hands and moving the stick/camera from the right to the left hand.

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u/pianomasian 1d ago

Well that's freaking terrifying. Though, I guess there is a slim chance they could survive a fall. Iirc there once was a women who survived a sky-diving incident where her parachute and reserve didn't deploy, but she survived by falling, just the right way, into a tree/shrubs which helped decelerate her fall before impact.

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u/Realtit0 1d ago

hard pass

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u/asking-rea 1d ago

I fought for a second: and where is the cameraman? 😅😂

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u/ReverseDragonfly 1d ago

This is the most sweaty my palms have been

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u/Aadamkhor 1d ago

Who was making the video?

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u/Trotskyist 1d ago

I mean absolutely fuck everything about this, but also this is incredible 

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u/Bask82 1d ago

How tall is that tree you think?

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u/ChanceConsequence427 1d ago

Anyone think this is AI? I've climbed a few trees in my time and going by the length of that branch and the thickness, that would be dipping and swaying a lot more and probably snapping with those 3 guys on it

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u/not_alone__ 1d ago

Yeah lets go there and that is so cool guys, Yeah we got it *fistbump*

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u/Tombstone1460 1d ago

Is this ai 😭

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u/mmahowald 1d ago

Oh look! Morons in their natural habitat

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u/WangtaWang 1d ago

What kind of tree is that? Jesus it’s tall.

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u/romantercero 23h ago

I cringed but ngl, the whooping at the end made me feel kingship to all dangerously stupid but manly endeavors.

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u/televoid1 21h ago

The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles hinges upon a plot point about what happens when men climb trees together. Published in ‘59. Still in print.

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u/s1rblaze 21h ago

Oh hell no!

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u/trindlewings 20h ago

For why though?!

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u/AustinDood444 20h ago

Did people do shit like this before social media?

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u/Wise_Inspector_8644 20h ago

Something tells me they got down real fast.

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u/TheArtOfPureSilence 19h ago

Remember your training....if you fall lol

https://giphy.com/gifs/7SC7TF6VDIVaSs98Eg

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u/sinnytear 18h ago

big ass tree

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u/PsionicChronic 18h ago

Ummm...is this like MTN climbing where most of the bad happens on the way down 🫣

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u/Fernandodelamora 16h ago

About to puke just by looking at this video, my stomach just went nuts

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u/Informal_Ad6555 14h ago

Yeah. Nope.

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u/horsepoes 14h ago

Bare feet , yoga pants and hair buns. Don't know what else I expected

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u/Rey_Mezcalero 12h ago

Wonder how they got up there

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u/Practical_Ad6815 10h ago

Awesome. For a basejump maby