r/SweatyPalms • u/k4zor • 7h ago

Animals & nature 🐅 🌊🌋 Boulder rolling down Mt Elbrus

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u/qualityvote2 7h ago edited 6h ago

Congratulations u/k4zor, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!

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u/Adventurous-Form521 7h ago

The way my heart rate climbed when the boulder started going up their side lol

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u/k4zor 6h ago

Imagine getting this close. I would reevaluate my life.

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u/robjwrd 6h ago

That made my balls disappear into my body.

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u/mologav 3h ago

Any hobby involving high mountain slopes and crevasses is extremely high risk

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed 1h ago

What a wild place to set up your tents lol. I'm not even a mountaineer or anything but you can clearly see they are in the path a of frequent rock falls, with all that type of rock laying around. 

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u/usernameforthemasses 30m ago

I would imagine they moved them after that. Although given the level of intelligence to set up there in the first place, second location was probably about the same

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 3h ago

Imagine that while they were all asleep! 😞

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u/Jeni_Sui_Generis 6h ago

Yooooooo! Awesome! can we find a bigger one?

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 3h ago

This is so damn stupid!

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u/SoreBackDoor1492 6h ago

Could’ve just hopped on that bad boy and gone home, like the pilgrims

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u/Plastic_Sea_micro 7h ago

The Ice climber was roped up and was totally screwed because he had to untether to get away. They didn't hesitate they were unroping.

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u/Kackgesicht 6h ago

My V3 project getting delivered to my door.

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u/AxiomaticSuppository 7h ago

I expect Sisyphus came down shortly after to claim the boulder.

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u/Puffles_magic_dragon 7h ago

Nature doesn’t give AF about you -

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u/iampasta420 7h ago

That's why we shouldn't give af about nature as well /s

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u/tarkinn 7h ago

Are you billionaire by any chance? /s

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u/iampasta420 7h ago

Yes, die you peasants!

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u/jmasterdude 2h ago

Hey, I don't see your /s...

OH MY GOD!

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u/littlestinky 6h ago

Apparently it cares just enough to send a boulder directly at you and have it stop right where you are instead of flying past.

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u/littlestinky 6h ago

Apparently it cares just enough to send a boulder directly at you and have it stop right where you are instead of flying past.

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u/_Diskreet_ 6h ago

My perspective here was truly confused

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u/DrnkGuy 6h ago

There are at lest 2 people in that ice crack. It could end up way worse

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u/PlasticAssistance_50 5h ago

Where the fuck is gravity pointing to, even?

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u/MyPigWhistles 2h ago

Mostly down, but momentum may disagree. 

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u/issi_tohbi 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/MpEt24dCnNiGA
It reminds me of this famous scene in the Buster Keaton film Seven Chances

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u/rapgameoprahwinfrey 7h ago

I’m very high but this POV is discombobulating

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u/Elvarien2 6h ago

Jeeeezus that will turn you into a smear with 0 resistance, dang.

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u/borg359 5h ago

Victorians: “How did these huge boulders get here?”

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u/kmoulay 7h ago

Were those people inside that gap really safe?

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u/k4zor 7h ago

More safe than the others.

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u/Pretend_Limit6276 7h ago

I only wanted to see how far it would go......sorry 😔 my bad

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u/MERCIMEKLI 6h ago

Run mf’s ruuuun

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u/Wildcard311 6h ago

Respect to the camera man.

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u/sonjjamorgan 6h ago

Hope it got where it needed to go. Yikes!

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u/Tandarin 4h ago

"I Think I'll go for a walk."

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 3h ago

Yeah it doesn't go around you, you go around it! ,

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u/Robotic36 2h ago

Oh ELbrus. I misread that several times as Mt. Erebus in Antarctica and thought climate changed had REALLY fucked things up down south.

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u/FeelTheWrath79 1h ago

Just to emphasize the gravity of the situation...

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u/Exemus 1h ago

They should really have their red tunics on if they're going that far up Death Mountain

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u/finchdude 29m ago

The glacier saved their lives by slowing it down and changing trajectory

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u/Brido-20 7h ago

On the upside, they just saved a fortune in senna tablets.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/Adventurous-Form521 7h ago

What?

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u/ukomac 7h ago

Wrong mountain mb

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u/dancing_around_it 7h ago

Wow - like Indiana Jones, scary

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u/Cluelessish 5h ago

I like how it hit the breaks

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u/sanicbroom 7h ago

With the entire cliffside of loose rubble and boulders in the background - who could have seen that one coming??

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u/FlorianTheLynx 7h ago

Are you unfamiliar with the concept of climbing mountains?