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    I fucking hate that apparently it’s necessary to add a countdown to keep people’s attention for more than two seconds and I have ADHD.

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      Apart from “Darwin Award” being pseudo-scientific and eugenicist-adjacent: Skiing is considered “Darwin Award” worthy now?

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        It should. And this ain’t skiing. This is skiing in unknown unmaintained and unsafe terrain.

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            Yes. But is ice skating skating?

            Skiing is usually used to refer to skiing on maintained ski areas downhill or cross country skiing.

            Doing it on foreign terrain which you clearly don’t know well enough and at speed is leaving the bounds of regular skiing.

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              Skiing is usually used to refer to skiing on maintained ski areas downhill or cross country skiing.

              No true scotsman fallacy. Also, you’re pulling the “is usually used to refer” out of your ass.

              Ski mountaineering is more like skiing than cross-country skiing. It’s quite common in the alps to do that and you almost never go on prepared tracks. The mountain where I spent my teenage winters after school doesn’t even really have an official, prepared track for about 75% of the skiing terrain, because it’s too steep.

              As I said: you have no idea.

              Doing it on foreign terrain which you clearly don’t know well enough and at speed is leaving the bounds of regular skiing.

              I ain’t saying it was smart. But it’s not “extreme”.

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              Sorry, you weren’t the person who called thir “extreme”. But still: Basing whether or not something is considered as “skiing” on how well you know the terrain (they could have gone down that mountain for 20 times already, for all you know, since crevaces like can form after you’ve made yourself familiar with the terrain), or how fast you do so is just dumb. When does it stop being “skiing”? At 20km/h? At 35 km/h? 27.5?

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        idiotic suicidal extreme sport like this is, definitely

        this wouldn’t happen when prepared adequately and behaved appropriately

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          this wouldn’t happen when prepared adequately and behaved appropriately

          I agree. But this is hardly extreme skiing.

          If this qualified for your stupid “haha, someone who ‘deserved it’ died” award, then you could give that out to 80% of people staying in a hut in the alps.

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            nope. this is off track extreme stuff (probably dropped off with a helicopter) and has nothing to do with regular alpinism

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              It’s way more likely to be ski mountaineering. It’s quite common in the alps and you almost never go on prepared tracks when you do.

              If that’s “extreme”, then Austria is full of extreme sports folks.

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    Anyone else notice how brown the snow was after home landed.

    Never seen someone shit themselves so hard.

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    11 hours ago

    The guy doesn’t have a guardian angel. He has a platoon of guardian angels working in shifts 24/7/365.