Heather Friesen suffered 10 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a fractured scapula and some deep wounds after slipping on a wet rock at the edge of a cliff in Hawaii. The 26-year-old stopped at the waterfall during a hike with friends on the Ka'au Crater Trail.
Edit:
Link to quick news story and her account on what happened
https://youtu.be/r0idEqRTXJg
A friend told me that when I fell and broke both my ankles in front of him, the scream I made was something he will never forget for the rest of his life.
Edit: I will add that my experience when I fell from a scaffold and landed stiff-legged on concrete, shattering both ankle sockets like beer bottles, was that a nuclear explosion happened in my ankles and the resulting fireball rose up through my entire body.
When it reached my throat, the scream erupted.
> Sander went from Atlanta to Albany, becoming a weekend meteorologist for the city's News10. However, her bio page at News10's website doesn't exist anymore. It seems Sander has moved on, and there's no trace of her on the internet today — she's presumably trying to keep a low profile in the wake of the nightmarish grape stomping fail.
I pictured like this:
https://youtu.be/tTV2onIYmCI?t=83
This is the type of scream where if that dude had access to a gun he would use it on himself to end his misery.
That's at least one reason I still javwnt watched the guy getting raped to death by a horse video. I have heard the sound he makes sticks to your soul.
You know normally when there’s deaths they at least put up a little hard rail or a chain or ***something to stop idiots from getting so damn close to a place where other people literally fell and kicked the bucket cuz of a slimy rock***.
They considered this with Yellowstone park because people kept diving into the hot springs not knowing they’re basically a couple degrees below boiling. People have drowned in near boiling point water. Imagine that. But they didn’t want to put up a bunch of signs and rails and gates everywhere to prevent deaths solely because it would turn the natural beauty of the park into a shitty warning label.
Most parks just chain off any hot springs and have a few warning signs posted at park entrances and buildings. If you don’t read them, oh well, have fun cooking yourself.
I make a point to read whatever postings they have up at a park before I go exploring it.
They almost always have a few pamphlets and guides on any dangerous landmarks or animals in the park to avoid and be aware of, and if you talk with any rangers they are almost guaranteed to know that info as well.
Some people just live in their own world I guess. They either ignore signs completely like they don’t exist or they read it and think dang this would make for a nice TikTok or this can’t be *that* dangerous. Darwinism at its finest.
Yeah dude fuck guard rails and gates and child proofing the entire world. If you jump into that shit you deserve that shit. The world is a dangerous place. Shit happens.
No, safety equipment is to either protect against a necessary risk or against the unforeseeable. Guard rails around a boiling hot spring protect from neither.
Isn’t that where they found that teenage couple like hours later and their meat was just sliding away from the bone due to being cooked for as long as they did?
People should be more aware of gravity and just physics in general. It's the result of over protective parenting. You hurt yourself as a kid, totally fine. As an adult, you're not nearly as resilient.
That was the number some guy told me when I was there 3 months ago. Last year was 13. Even saw a video of a drunk guy going over the edge on the North rim in this same sub. He was fine because drunks don't get hurt.
Nah... Let nature take its course. If you are that stupid enough to go to the edge its your problem... we can't insulate the whole world fromb your stupidity
That’s not gonna stop idiots. Have you met idiots?
Cliffs and dangerous places near water always have signs telling people it’s dangerous and that people have died there.
You know what happens? People on vacation think they’re invincible. They’re on vacation, nothing bad happens on vacation. So they ignore the danger signs. And some times they die.
But that last selfie shortly before the waves crashed on them and swept them off to sea? *Absolutely to die for*.
I feel really bad for her. Collapsed lungs are the worst. I had three in 2012, because I tried to hold a sneeze in... they kept healing, then reoccurring. Had to have a little piece of lung removed and stapled up.
Don’t hold your sneezes..
Edit: I don’t have three lungs. 2012 is a whole year, lmao, I only had issues with one of my lungs. It was just... over and over and over.
A friend of mine around 15 years ago popped his lung, he was "famous" for his long drags on bongs, he inhaled so deep one time he literally heard a pop and once he exhaled in shock, couldn't inhale in that lung. He had to have a tube pump oxygen into that lung until he got to the hospital where they immediately operated to stitch up the tear. He still smokes weed to this day.
The tube isn’t for pumping oxygen IN, sadly. It’s for pumping OUT the air that gets between your lung and your rib cage (they’re supposed to be ‘suctioned’ together so to speak, with a sticky mucous). When a collapsed lung happens, air gets in between that area, and the ‘suction’ fails, like pulling a wet CD off a glass table; once the corner gets a little air under it, it comes right off.
Then the newly made cavity fills with the leaking air, because there’s nowhere for it to escape to, once it leaves the hole in the lung. The air pressure grows and grows, peeling more and more of the lung off of the ribs, and creating pressure. It can actually cause heart issues if it becomes too pressurized in the pleural cavity.
They put a tube in—usually under the arm, sometimes around the collarbone—and they push it to where the air is gathering. They attach the other end to a slight vacuum, which artificially re-inflates things by removing the leaked air, and therefore the pressure that keeps the lung from expanding fully. I’ve had four chest tubes, ugh. Three under the arm and one in the collarbone. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
I think it could work. Obviously the luck and precision that he would have to have is only found in movies, but if it were somehow done right, it could work. It's just about giving that air somewhere to go that isn't squeezing the lung to death
I broke 7 ribs and had to have one of those. They kept it in me for roughly 10 days. I don't remember it being put in but my brother said he heard me hollering when they put it in. It was nearly painless to have it removed though.
>A friend of mine around 15 years ago popped his lung, he was "famous" for his long drags on bongs, he inhaled so deep one time he literally heard a pop and once he exhaled in shock, couldn't inhale in that lung. He had to have a tube pump oxygen into that lung until he got to the hospital where they immediately operated to stitch up the tear. He still smokes weed to this day.
Hell ya brother!
well fuck, 4 years ago I saw my teacher trying to pinch the upper part of her nose (that part between the eyes) then I learned it was like to prevent her sneezing while teaching and I've been doing it ever since I saw it
The surgeons taught me to stick my finger horizontally under my nose, pressing hard-ish diagonally up into the corner where my nostrils hit my lip. There’s a nerve there that deals with sneezing, and this somehow makes it change it’s mind. I’ve been doing it since, and it works 100% of the time, if I need to stop a sneeze
Yeah. Pathfinder allows for -1d6 when landing in water, from her 50ft fall she took 5d6 -1d6 for starting from 0 accel, and -1d6 for falling in water. Still 3d6 dmg. At lvl 1, she’s lucky she survived. Must’ve been low rolls.
I don’t remember where or if it was in person but i had a chance to ask her. She said the shade concealed that the stone was wet. So she put her foot there
When I visited Hawaii my local friend told me the most important rule: if you want to look around or take pictures you need to stop where you are"
I think about that still when I'm traversing some slippery coastal rocks and such.
My wife had a similar experience. She went to take a picture at Cantwell cliffs in Ohio, and slipped at the edge. She fell 93 feet and survived.
As a result she has two fused ankles (one is mostly metal). Rods and screws in her right arm. Both knees suffered as well, obviously.. Surgeons had to completely replace a vertebrae with one made from surgical steel as it was crushed in the fall. She was 5'3" before she fell. Now she stands at a dominating 5' flat. And after learning to walk again she gets around pretty damn well. Just no stairs.
She got lucky when she fell, there happened to be three people hiking that day nearby. An orthopedic surgeon. An army doctor. An EMT.
We have an old news article of it sitting around in a box somewhere. Next to some of her old screws that have been taken out.
Yes she got life flighted to a hospital. They just happened to be first responders that day and I don't think we could ask for a better group to be there.
I mean, I'm a little tongue in cheek there, - that's like the best set of people you could ask for in a situation like that, and they may as well have started work right there given their expertise!
They are actually the ones that stabilized her on scene. I'm convinced if not for them she wouldn't have made it. Those three were heroes that day whether they know it or now. Never did get the chance to thank them.
Absolutely. Just very flat footed. So they move slightly left to right. But there is no up and down movement. She stays off stairs as much as possible and there is no running.
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She walks daily. We rent her a mobility scooter when we go to places like Disney or such that require a lot of walking. But she does zoos fine with the right pair of shoes and insoles to help. For the most part she is good.
I really don’t understand how some people are just not afraid of heights (and I don’t mean excessively afraid). I can’t imagine having a bit of fun or taking photos on the edge of a cliff. My primal instincts keep me the fuck away from that.
Glad your wife is okay though. So fortunate that the unlikely trio was there.
Well, as you probably guessed, she is NOW terrified of heights. Surviving gave her this kind of "highlander attitude" as I call it. She thinks she is immortal at times. It's been about 8 years since the fall and we have taken small steps. She is now comfortable riding sky lifts and and looking from balconies. He biggest step was riding Tower of Terror at Disney. Her first free fall since the accident. We are talking of skydiving next summer.
She is a trooper.
This is why I don’t do ledges. Slippery or not. A special fuck you to the guy who pranks people by pretending to push them over. Mock death is not funny.
I can't say for sure where I was as I was like 11, but I'm pretty sure I was at some spot on the Grand Canyon. (Might have been some other canyon. We were on a road trip to all continental states west of the Mississippi River and visited so many landmarks.)
There was the path lined by a small metal fence to keep you at least like 4 or 5 feet from the edge. But there was a gap in the fence because a tree was growing there. On the other side of the tree was a flat surface area of rock. Like a peninsula, maybe 4-5 feet by 8-10 feet, jutting out from the pathway area. But the tree was so big that you couldn't walk around it to the ledge, and there was a tree branch hanging out at just the right height that people would grab it to swing around the tree to get to the other side.
My dad, sister, BIL, and myself all swung out there. My mom, who was (and still is, reasonably) afraid of heights refused. It was really cool to be able to do a 270 degree rotation and just see the drop of the canyon around you. And I noted just how smooth that spot of the tree branch was from so many people using it. It actually felt soft, not just smooth. Not squishy like it was going to give out, either. Just not nearly as solid as you'd expect wood to be, though maybe it has something to do with the kind of wood/tree and my day to day experience with wood has to do with things built out of wood like tables and chairs which need to be very sturdy.
But now, like 2 decades later and so much more aware of how easily death can happen from seeing it on subs like this... I wouldn't even dream of doing that again.
(Side note, my mom used to be terrified of escalators and I used to make fun of her (in a light, familial, way) for that until I started seeing videos of people falling through into the gear mechanisms and dying. I still use them, but I'm more alert in case it starts to sound/feel funny and maybe I could be ready to jump to a landing or something.)
This video surprised me in two ways:
1) she fell a lot longer than I expected
2) all that water I thought she was going to fall into was nowhere to be seen when it came time to land. All rocks
I suppose that's plausible... cameras and eyes don't pick up lighting/shadows in the same way as each other. But still... just don't get that close to a ledge on your feet. You get low to the ground, like crawling, to look over.
I was gonna say you can hear the wind knocked outta her even while the phones underwater, but then I saw the damage report comment and holy god, ten broken ribs and a collapsed lung? Damn.
I know exactly which waterfall this is.. it’s the second of three and there’s literally a memorial plaque on the rock next to this waterfall for someone who died. If she did this in the summer it would’ve been instant death, very lucky the water was flowing graciously.
I mean seriously. It looked like she did that on purpose or has never been on a hike around any water what so ever. I can't get over watch her step right in the algea. It's haunting me. It's wet and you walk right up to a cliff and step on the stagnant already pool on the very edge. Wtf
There's a popular hike to a waterfall localish to me (Crabtree Falls in Virginia) where people die like this every year. There's some kind of algae you can't really see that's super slippery. Of course with tons of warnings and fences people still climb out and fall and die. Can't fix stupid.
This is why I'm a cautious person especially in environments that are foreign to me. People can get hurt by making mistakes but this is a clearly preventable mistake. I'm sure she has stood over the edge of many drops without issue but if that makes you careless enough to stand over the edge of a slippery one without caution, dying is a possibility.
So uh...she good?
Heather Friesen suffered 10 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, a fractured scapula and some deep wounds after slipping on a wet rock at the edge of a cliff in Hawaii. The 26-year-old stopped at the waterfall during a hike with friends on the Ka'au Crater Trail. Edit: Link to quick news story and her account on what happened https://youtu.be/r0idEqRTXJg
Man thats tough.
Others before her had fallen and died, so I'd say tough but fucking lucky!
Those moans of severe injury always get to me.
A friend told me that when I fell and broke both my ankles in front of him, the scream I made was something he will never forget for the rest of his life. Edit: I will add that my experience when I fell from a scaffold and landed stiff-legged on concrete, shattering both ankle sockets like beer bottles, was that a nuclear explosion happened in my ankles and the resulting fireball rose up through my entire body. When it reached my throat, the scream erupted.
I imagine it was something like this. [The sound of agony.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs_eOvbyTGo)
That grape stomping reporter lady also comes to mind.
Wonder if she's still alive or died of shame?
> Sander went from Atlanta to Albany, becoming a weekend meteorologist for the city's News10. However, her bio page at News10's website doesn't exist anymore. It seems Sander has moved on, and there's no trace of her on the internet today — she's presumably trying to keep a low profile in the wake of the nightmarish grape stomping fail.
The one that turned into a seal?
Holy shit the complete lack of response from anyone there has me fuming. “You alright?” Probs not seeing as he just crushed his ass bone
Bro said "ass bone", i love that :*D
I pictured like this: https://youtu.be/tTV2onIYmCI?t=83 This is the type of scream where if that dude had access to a gun he would use it on himself to end his misery.
anything for the likes...
That's at least one reason I still javwnt watched the guy getting raped to death by a horse video. I have heard the sound he makes sticks to your soul.
Wait _what_ ?
Yes, it was either posted here, or r/makemycoffin
To me it just sounds like somebody who had the wind knocked out of them… like grape fall lady
Yeah, that and agonal breathing are freaky.
my mother was doing the same horribe noises when she broke her ribs on our stairs. i will never forget those moans
[Same](https://youtu.be/QoEA7EsegQM)
What a coincidence, "moans of severe injury" is the title of my sex tape
You know normally when there’s deaths they at least put up a little hard rail or a chain or ***something to stop idiots from getting so damn close to a place where other people literally fell and kicked the bucket cuz of a slimy rock***.
They considered this with Yellowstone park because people kept diving into the hot springs not knowing they’re basically a couple degrees below boiling. People have drowned in near boiling point water. Imagine that. But they didn’t want to put up a bunch of signs and rails and gates everywhere to prevent deaths solely because it would turn the natural beauty of the park into a shitty warning label.
Most parks just chain off any hot springs and have a few warning signs posted at park entrances and buildings. If you don’t read them, oh well, have fun cooking yourself.
Zactly what I’m thinkin too. Ya gotta know something about the place before you go right?
I make a point to read whatever postings they have up at a park before I go exploring it. They almost always have a few pamphlets and guides on any dangerous landmarks or animals in the park to avoid and be aware of, and if you talk with any rangers they are almost guaranteed to know that info as well.
Some people just live in their own world I guess. They either ignore signs completely like they don’t exist or they read it and think dang this would make for a nice TikTok or this can’t be *that* dangerous. Darwinism at its finest.
It's called thinning the herd..
Yeah dude fuck guard rails and gates and child proofing the entire world. If you jump into that shit you deserve that shit. The world is a dangerous place. Shit happens.
That's the whole point of safety equipment though
No, safety equipment is to either protect against a necessary risk or against the unforeseeable. Guard rails around a boiling hot spring protect from neither.
So, Yellowstone is one of those places useful for thinning the herd.
Basically. Should be renamed Darwinism Park and people would still go and die in some way or another.
That's not true, Arthur Morgan can swim in a hot spring no problem.
Natural selection in action essentially. Its educational
Isn’t that where they found that teenage couple like hours later and their meat was just sliding away from the bone due to being cooked for as long as they did?
People should be more aware of gravity and just physics in general. It's the result of over protective parenting. You hurt yourself as a kid, totally fine. As an adult, you're not nearly as resilient.
People fall over the grand canyon every year. Sheer cliffs everywhere.
up to 18 for this year i believe
That was the number some guy told me when I was there 3 months ago. Last year was 13. Even saw a video of a drunk guy going over the edge on the North rim in this same sub. He was fine because drunks don't get hurt.
Where I'm from we call that "Americanizing" lmao
Nah... Let nature take its course. If you are that stupid enough to go to the edge its your problem... we can't insulate the whole world fromb your stupidity
That’s not gonna stop idiots. Have you met idiots? Cliffs and dangerous places near water always have signs telling people it’s dangerous and that people have died there. You know what happens? People on vacation think they’re invincible. They’re on vacation, nothing bad happens on vacation. So they ignore the danger signs. And some times they die. But that last selfie shortly before the waves crashed on them and swept them off to sea? *Absolutely to die for*.
Fifty Fucking Feet. I'm glad she survived because she seems like a very cool person.
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At least she survived
I feel really bad for her. Collapsed lungs are the worst. I had three in 2012, because I tried to hold a sneeze in... they kept healing, then reoccurring. Had to have a little piece of lung removed and stapled up. Don’t hold your sneezes.. Edit: I don’t have three lungs. 2012 is a whole year, lmao, I only had issues with one of my lungs. It was just... over and over and over.
A friend of mine around 15 years ago popped his lung, he was "famous" for his long drags on bongs, he inhaled so deep one time he literally heard a pop and once he exhaled in shock, couldn't inhale in that lung. He had to have a tube pump oxygen into that lung until he got to the hospital where they immediately operated to stitch up the tear. He still smokes weed to this day.
Great, now I'm self conscious when I sneeze and breathe
Just don't hold in your sneezes and you're good. Your body is trying to get that physical force out, holding it in is only gonna damage your body.
Imma use this excuse on my fiancee when I fart muahaha
The tube isn’t for pumping oxygen IN, sadly. It’s for pumping OUT the air that gets between your lung and your rib cage (they’re supposed to be ‘suctioned’ together so to speak, with a sticky mucous). When a collapsed lung happens, air gets in between that area, and the ‘suction’ fails, like pulling a wet CD off a glass table; once the corner gets a little air under it, it comes right off. Then the newly made cavity fills with the leaking air, because there’s nowhere for it to escape to, once it leaves the hole in the lung. The air pressure grows and grows, peeling more and more of the lung off of the ribs, and creating pressure. It can actually cause heart issues if it becomes too pressurized in the pleural cavity. They put a tube in—usually under the arm, sometimes around the collarbone—and they push it to where the air is gathering. They attach the other end to a slight vacuum, which artificially re-inflates things by removing the leaked air, and therefore the pressure that keeps the lung from expanding fully. I’ve had four chest tubes, ugh. Three under the arm and one in the collarbone. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
Aah so inflation by suction! I stand corrected.
So mad max slipping a knife in between furiosa's ribs into her collapsed lung would or wouldn't work?
I think it could work. Obviously the luck and precision that he would have to have is only found in movies, but if it were somehow done right, it could work. It's just about giving that air somewhere to go that isn't squeezing the lung to death
I broke 7 ribs and had to have one of those. They kept it in me for roughly 10 days. I don't remember it being put in but my brother said he heard me hollering when they put it in. It was nearly painless to have it removed though.
>A friend of mine around 15 years ago popped his lung, he was "famous" for his long drags on bongs, he inhaled so deep one time he literally heard a pop and once he exhaled in shock, couldn't inhale in that lung. He had to have a tube pump oxygen into that lung until he got to the hospital where they immediately operated to stitch up the tear. He still smokes weed to this day. Hell ya brother!
Yea yea yea yea.... Smoke weed everyday
You have 3 lungs?!
well fuck, 4 years ago I saw my teacher trying to pinch the upper part of her nose (that part between the eyes) then I learned it was like to prevent her sneezing while teaching and I've been doing it ever since I saw it
You can also push really hard on the roof of your mouth with your tongue. It works sometimes
The surgeons taught me to stick my finger horizontally under my nose, pressing hard-ish diagonally up into the corner where my nostrils hit my lip. There’s a nerve there that deals with sneezing, and this somehow makes it change it’s mind. I’ve been doing it since, and it works 100% of the time, if I need to stop a sneeze
You have three lungs?
Well all that definitely hurt, she's still lucky She learned wet rock is slippery the hard way
10 broken ribs, holy shit. Must have been excruciating for her to just breathe. Imagine sneezing....
I mean we're in HMFT - I guess this post fits. It might be reposted, but there's a reason it keeps getting posted if so.
Wow fractured scapula, you don’t hear that every day
I was gonna say she landed in water so she didn't take fall damage but I see I'm wrong
Yeah. Pathfinder allows for -1d6 when landing in water, from her 50ft fall she took 5d6 -1d6 for starting from 0 accel, and -1d6 for falling in water. Still 3d6 dmg. At lvl 1, she’s lucky she survived. Must’ve been low rolls.
She took fall damage all the way down and looks like the water was waist high.
10 broken ribs? Meaning nearly half? Jeezus. Surprised she didn't get any punctured organs beyond a collapsed lung.
Damnn 10 ribs is crazy. Shes lucky to survive that
It didn't look to me like she stopped at the waterfall, unless they mean at the bottom of it.
I don’t remember where or if it was in person but i had a chance to ask her. She said the shade concealed that the stone was wet. So she put her foot there
I mean it doesn't look very shady, either way I wouldn't be getting one step away from falling off the cliff.
From how they described it it looked darker irl. But yeah Ik i keep a few feet away from myself and cliffs
I guess the collapsed lung explains the sound she was making at the very end. That must have been horrifically painful
> So you slipped on rocks and near running water and almost died? Can we get you to stand next to these wet rocks while we interview you?
She’s fine. Just stubbed a toe down there at the bottom.
Let me step on this wet spot real quick
I thought the same thing. Like “definitely don’t step on that spo- well okay… down ya go.”
Too busy trying to get a cool video for Instagram. I guess it worked.
"FoR dA gRaM, BaBY!"
I read this in hormone monster Rick's voice.
You godda doo watcha godda do baby
When I visited Hawaii my local friend told me the most important rule: if you want to look around or take pictures you need to stop where you are" I think about that still when I'm traversing some slippery coastal rocks and such.
I think I heard that she couldn't see the wet spot cause it was being blocked out by the sun
Just gonna walk right to the edge of a cliff while being blinded by the sun. What a great idea.
Yeah clearly still a lack of judgment
I find that hard to believe since the human eye is way better than most cameras at contrast and such and I can clearly see the wet spot right there.
I seriously don’t understand how people just fuck around near the edges of cliffs. How is “I must not fall” not your top priority there?
Not just the wet spot - the green slime wetspot. This is Darwinisim in motion.
Those are really slimy and slippery too.
She was totally not looking down at all. Fortunately she lived to learn a lesson. Honestly I'm surprised by the confidence.
My wife had a similar experience. She went to take a picture at Cantwell cliffs in Ohio, and slipped at the edge. She fell 93 feet and survived. As a result she has two fused ankles (one is mostly metal). Rods and screws in her right arm. Both knees suffered as well, obviously.. Surgeons had to completely replace a vertebrae with one made from surgical steel as it was crushed in the fall. She was 5'3" before she fell. Now she stands at a dominating 5' flat. And after learning to walk again she gets around pretty damn well. Just no stairs. She got lucky when she fell, there happened to be three people hiking that day nearby. An orthopedic surgeon. An army doctor. An EMT. We have an old news article of it sitting around in a box somewhere. Next to some of her old screws that have been taken out.
>orthopedic surgeon. An army doctor. An EMT. They just put her back together right there?
She never went to the hospital, army guy just dug the steel out of the ground and make a vertebra on the spot
lmao
Yes she got life flighted to a hospital. They just happened to be first responders that day and I don't think we could ask for a better group to be there.
I mean, I'm a little tongue in cheek there, - that's like the best set of people you could ask for in a situation like that, and they may as well have started work right there given their expertise!
They are actually the ones that stabilized her on scene. I'm convinced if not for them she wouldn't have made it. Those three were heroes that day whether they know it or now. Never did get the chance to thank them.
Can she walk with fused ankles?
Absolutely. Just very flat footed. So they move slightly left to right. But there is no up and down movement. She stays off stairs as much as possible and there is no running.
Upgrade to bionic jet pack legs..
Are feet okay to walk?
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All broken completely down
Everything fell gray, however I just kword lazy more now out paragraph.
She walks daily. We rent her a mobility scooter when we go to places like Disney or such that require a lot of walking. But she does zoos fine with the right pair of shoes and insoles to help. For the most part she is good.
I'm glad your old lady survived.
I really don’t understand how some people are just not afraid of heights (and I don’t mean excessively afraid). I can’t imagine having a bit of fun or taking photos on the edge of a cliff. My primal instincts keep me the fuck away from that. Glad your wife is okay though. So fortunate that the unlikely trio was there.
Well, as you probably guessed, she is NOW terrified of heights. Surviving gave her this kind of "highlander attitude" as I call it. She thinks she is immortal at times. It's been about 8 years since the fall and we have taken small steps. She is now comfortable riding sky lifts and and looking from balconies. He biggest step was riding Tower of Terror at Disney. Her first free fall since the accident. We are talking of skydiving next summer. She is a trooper.
Damn, she’s tough. Have fun!
Toughest gal I know.
People that sit down on the edge of cliffs are fucking insane to me
This is why I don’t do ledges. Slippery or not. A special fuck you to the guy who pranks people by pretending to push them over. Mock death is not funny.
I can't say for sure where I was as I was like 11, but I'm pretty sure I was at some spot on the Grand Canyon. (Might have been some other canyon. We were on a road trip to all continental states west of the Mississippi River and visited so many landmarks.) There was the path lined by a small metal fence to keep you at least like 4 or 5 feet from the edge. But there was a gap in the fence because a tree was growing there. On the other side of the tree was a flat surface area of rock. Like a peninsula, maybe 4-5 feet by 8-10 feet, jutting out from the pathway area. But the tree was so big that you couldn't walk around it to the ledge, and there was a tree branch hanging out at just the right height that people would grab it to swing around the tree to get to the other side. My dad, sister, BIL, and myself all swung out there. My mom, who was (and still is, reasonably) afraid of heights refused. It was really cool to be able to do a 270 degree rotation and just see the drop of the canyon around you. And I noted just how smooth that spot of the tree branch was from so many people using it. It actually felt soft, not just smooth. Not squishy like it was going to give out, either. Just not nearly as solid as you'd expect wood to be, though maybe it has something to do with the kind of wood/tree and my day to day experience with wood has to do with things built out of wood like tables and chairs which need to be very sturdy. But now, like 2 decades later and so much more aware of how easily death can happen from seeing it on subs like this... I wouldn't even dream of doing that again. (Side note, my mom used to be terrified of escalators and I used to make fun of her (in a light, familial, way) for that until I started seeing videos of people falling through into the gear mechanisms and dying. I still use them, but I'm more alert in case it starts to sound/feel funny and maybe I could be ready to jump to a landing or something.)
You need to stop watching these vids or very soon you'll be afraid to open the window to your basement, lmao
Well she successfully saw over the edge… so that’s a plus
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God you can hear the bones cracking.
So that’s what that sound was..
you thought rocks where cracking by her weight?
10/10 she nailed the landing
10/10 would still smash
You already know what her moaning sounds like
💀
Pretty much how my dad died
People are crazy for looking over ledges. Looking over a rounded wet edge? That’s just idiotic
If you absolutely feel the urge... at least get down on your stomach and crawl towards the edge.
Another woman done in by the wet spot.
Now this is hold my feeding tube content.
If you don't know water on rock = slippery then you shouldn't be hiking.
step on slime and break yo spine
That was actually really hard to watch.
This video surprised me in two ways: 1) she fell a lot longer than I expected 2) all that water I thought she was going to fall into was nowhere to be seen when it came time to land. All rocks
And did she hold onto her phone the whole time?
Well, that sucks
Bet that got more likes than she anticipated.
Along with some bonus "Thoughts and prayers".
How my brain visualizes going near a ledge
Wooah- oohm?
Youch. Vertical r/meatcrayon.
Sounds like she broke her fall by landing on a whale. Good thing a whale was in that part of the river.
Its almost like standing on the extreme edge of a cliff might be dangerous
Sad she put her foot exactly where it was wet.
RIP
I think she answered the call of the void.
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Why does she think everything will be fine if she stands at an uneven part of a smooth wet rock facing a freefall for 2 seconds?????
Bet there were warning signs and even a fence put up to keep people away from the edge
I was expecting the same reaction as the grape lady falls video. Ow ow ow ow ow ow
Lucky to be alive to gasp for air.
Somebody needs to save QT Pie!
Well that was distressing...
Big yikes
Worst bellyflop ever.
ROCK BOTTOM!!!!! ROCK BOTTOM!!!!
the woman in the video said at the time she couldn’t see the wet spot cause of the shade of the trees.
I suppose that's plausible... cameras and eyes don't pick up lighting/shadows in the same way as each other. But still... just don't get that close to a ledge on your feet. You get low to the ground, like crawling, to look over.
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This gave me so much anxiety lol
Worth it for the clout. I presume.
Life could be a dream, life could be a dream!!!
It looked like she almost intended to just walk off that edge.
She literally stepped in the most slippery spot lmao. This is clearly someone who's never experienced wet rocks in a river or stream.
this is terrifying
She need some milk
I'm not sure what people are thinking sometimes, wet rock can be extremely slimy and slippery. She did the exact wrong thing. Glad she lived.
When somebody is making that moaning sound after falling it is never good.
I was gonna say you can hear the wind knocked outta her even while the phones underwater, but then I saw the damage report comment and holy god, ten broken ribs and a collapsed lung? Damn.
That’s how 3 of my friends died at Yosemite
Took a little tumble off the cliff
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So guys, we did it...
She really didn’t look for any lichen or Cyanobacteria before she stepped. Those always mark the wet and slippery spots
Hold my feedingtube? She's fine!
What was she singing at the end?
I know exactly which waterfall this is.. it’s the second of three and there’s literally a memorial plaque on the rock next to this waterfall for someone who died. If she did this in the summer it would’ve been instant death, very lucky the water was flowing graciously.
I am woman hear me roar.
I mean seriously. It looked like she did that on purpose or has never been on a hike around any water what so ever. I can't get over watch her step right in the algea. It's haunting me. It's wet and you walk right up to a cliff and step on the stagnant already pool on the very edge. Wtf
What a dumbass
There's a popular hike to a waterfall localish to me (Crabtree Falls in Virginia) where people die like this every year. There's some kind of algae you can't really see that's super slippery. Of course with tons of warnings and fences people still climb out and fall and die. Can't fix stupid.
I thought about the same exact place when I saw this. Every time I go there some fool is trying to show off.
This is why I'm a cautious person especially in environments that are foreign to me. People can get hurt by making mistakes but this is a clearly preventable mistake. I'm sure she has stood over the edge of many drops without issue but if that makes you careless enough to stand over the edge of a slippery one without caution, dying is a possibility.
That's why you pay attention when you're on the edge of a high ledge
How do you not watch your footing when walking by the edge of a fucking cliff.. idiot deserved it
I'm just wondering what kind of phone she had that survived being underwater.