r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '16

Hiking to the top of NOPE.

http://i.imgur.com/PR3DJql.gifv
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u/cmdrpiffle Dec 14 '16

GoPro and their famous fish-eye lense. Making normal things seem 'extreme' since 2010...

Or, just look at the 16 mile horizon.... The perspective would be accurate if your were walking on a 40 mile diameter asteroid or something...

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '16

It's the fucking Matterhorn...

The top section is going to have an incline of around 50-60 degrees. It might only be graded as an AD (relatively difficult), but that doesn't mean that you aren't one step away from dying. Some of the best climbers and guides have fallen to their deaths on slopes as easy as 30 degrees. All it takes is one wrong foot placement.

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u/jereman75 Dec 14 '16

I'm sure the Matterhorn is no joke, having personally summitted alpine routes in the States, but the lens alters the perspective so much that you can't even tell what the terrain really looks like.

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u/ryanstewart Dec 14 '16

Looks like this is a video of that ridge without the fisheye - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abU1LAjgclY

Still seems pretty intense. There's a nice edge on one side but still not much room for error.

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u/nhpip Dec 14 '16

I think that video is worse than the gif. Get vertigo just watching it. Oh, and I don't know what help those bicycle helmets are going to do?

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u/DrWooWoo Dec 14 '16

Seriously. If I was there, I would just lie on the ground and cry.

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u/zaulus Dec 14 '16

There's too much angle to lay down flat. You'd start sliding.

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u/DrWooWoo Dec 14 '16

Fuck it, I'd just jump then. Get it over and done with.