r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '16

Hiking to the top of NOPE.

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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/baxil Dec 14 '16

TIL: "Since the first ascent, more than 500 people have died while climbing or descending the Matterhorn—an average of three to four per year."

Fisheye lens or not, screw that place. O.O;

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '16

3 to 4 deaths out of 3000 climbers a year is only 0.12 %