Closest you went to death

shinnybang · 2013-04-06 16:52:17

I have have not yet nearly died skiing (yet) but when i was driving on the mountain i hit a patch of black ice and rolled about 20 feet down.

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Almost got t boned by a car doing 60 in a 35

Apr 6 2013 4:54PM

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Also skiing accidents!!!

Apr 6 2013 4:56PM

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fell through some thin ice on a lake once while skiing. thank god my skis floated.

Apr 6 2013 4:56PM

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I've never really been close to death while skiing but one time I was skiing late season without a helmet and going super fast and rounded a sharp corner only to see a rock garden. I hit the rocks and double ejected over the rocks and onto some snow. I guess if I fell on the rocks at high speed I may have really hurt my head.

Apr 6 2013 4:59PM

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I've never come remotely close to death while skiing.

Apr 6 2013 5:04PM

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stupendous-man

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dont think ive ever been close to death *knock on wood* but my brand new skis almost died the other day when i went over a hip at dusk and didnt see rocks littered in the landing. utilizing my ninja skiing abilities i dodged/ollied all of them

Apr 6 2013 5:10PM

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Apr 6 2013 5:19PM

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Hard to explain, I will try:

A few years ago, I was skiing between some trees with French Ski instructor friend.

There was a small 12ft cliff, I went first, upon landing my left ski popped off.

At that moment I was in a world of shit, because there is a 100ft drop straight to jagged rocks 10ft in front of me.

With my best efforts I aim for a tree, hit that tree with my helmet, bounced off and fell down.

I was done for if not for my right sky getting caught up in the branches.

And there I was hanging upside down by my right sky 100ft in the air, French buddy managed to pull me up.

That tree saved my bloody life, I took a tiny piece of branch with me to remind me off it.

Apr 6 2013 5:22PM

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2 broken vertebraes...could of broken my spine or something...

Apr 6 2013 5:23PM

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same for me,

I have also landed on my head/neck a bunch of times

Apr 6 2013 5:26PM

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Amost got caught in a avalanche of wet snow out of bounds. Sketchy

Apr 6 2013 5:29PM

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stupendous-man

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Oh and the time i landed on my head on the edge of the windells foam pit.

Apr 6 2013 5:32PM

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Closest I have come is probably the numerous times I have gotten knocked off balance while speeding through some super tight trees or something. Nothing where I was certain I was dead or anything.

Apr 6 2013 5:37PM

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Not yet while skiing but was a passenger of a tire blow out on I495 in Massachusetts doing about 100mph. On 495 the average speed is around 100 at time and big rig trucks are going at 80mph

Apr 6 2013 7:03PM

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probably in chile. huge rock patch. one ski caught on and i flew forward almost going face first into a boulder. thankfully ima fucking boss and i barrel rolled out of the way... but because i had lost a ski i sunk a bit into the snow and i couldnt get out... thought i was gonna die. thankfully im a huge fucking boss and barrel rolled my way out of the hole and made it home safe like a huge fucking boss.

i may or may not have made up that story.

Apr 6 2013 7:08PM

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There was a little roller of the side of the end of a ski lift, that my bros and I were hitting all day, and the one time I hit it I got way more air than I expected. My head was about two inches from the one lift. Coulda been decapitated

Apr 6 2013 7:17PM

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Cool man you should be an author

Apr 6 2013 7:21PM

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Apr 6 2013 7:32PM

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Skiing a steep chute in some trees i popped out of my ski and slid 60 feet down head first towards a tree but i was able to get my feet around in time to save myself also today i nutted a rail but. I was able to pand on the inside of my thigh instead of my ballsack then i caught my tip i. The snow. And frontliped out of it scariest thing thats happend in a while

Apr 6 2013 7:35PM

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sNaubi

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landed on my neck first try on double back on trampoline, nothing broken, but, ya, thats my closest so far

Apr 6 2013 8:36PM

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This about sums it up

Apr 6 2013 8:40PM

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that's totally skiing tho

and for me, i've been pretty lucky, but just recently I scratched up my face and shit from actually faceplanting on a 40 footer, I don't know how I didn't get less hurt

Apr 6 2013 8:46PM

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idk if this would count.... but almost vacuming some water up

Apr 6 2013 8:46PM

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2 stories, one is my brother and the other is mine.

1. In my old house we had an indoor pool with doors that could lock from the inside (which i have always thought was retarded) My little brother was swimming and i shut the door without realising it was locked, but that normally wasnt an issue. A few days before the filter cover at the deep end of the pool cracked so we took it out to get a new one. By 9 year old brother swam down to the newly formed hole and decided to somehow get his foot stuck in it. I should say it did have slight suction power, but not a ton. I watched this happen from our kitchen window that overlooked the pool, and i quickly realized he could die if i didn't help him. So i smashed a sliding glass door with a frying pan, ripped my clothes off and jumped in, but his foot was pretty wedged in there. At this point it was probably 45 seconds that hed been stuck 7 feet deep. Took me about 30 more to get him out, but it felt like forever. But i did get him out, and he was fine, albeit still the biggest idiot i know.

2. Now, for me. Went on a hike in Arches National park (near Moab) and hiked up some random arch. Rouge wind gust blew me sideways, but i got lucky and landed back on the arch, but the wind had decided to become a relentless force. i had to crawl off from close to the middle, and i was scared shitless the whole time.

TL;DR: Brother almost died in our pool, i almost fell of a big red cliff.

Apr 6 2013 8:54PM

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walking in some mountains in fall and there were still some large-ish snow patches and the temperature had just dropped off well below freezing. was walking along a snow patch on a steep slope in the sun since it was softish snow and a lot easier going than scrambling on the rocks. shade from a nearby peak was coming up and I didnt think anything of it and kept walking. about 3 steps into the shade and it was all of a sudden hard icy snow on a steep slope with nothing but rocks below. right away lost control since I was not expecting it and started sliding super fast towards the rocks which were ~100 feet away. built up so much speed and couldn't stop myself but managed to turn around so my backpack was going to hit first and slammed into the rocks going fast enough to destroy someone. luckily came out only covered in bruises, cuts, and scrapes.

not that close to death, but it could have easily ended that way had I gone into the rocks the wrong way.

Apr 6 2013 8:57PM

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Gang fights

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scratch that, earlier today I found some 205cm XC skis complete with leather boots, 3 pin bindings and no edges. Hiked south ridge at Sunday River after closing today

scariest green run of my life.

Apr 6 2013 9:11PM

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hah such bullshit. this guys never been out of bounds in his life

Apr 6 2013 9:25PM

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I almost hit another plane about once a week. My comfort bubble is shrinking rapidly.

Apr 6 2013 9:55PM

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-MK-

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Yeah I has, you never ever ever ever ski with me

Apr 6 2013 10:07PM

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I overshot a jump and fractured/displaced my c4/c5 vertebrae, resulting in spinal fusion surgery + titanium plate/bone graph... also tore my vertebral artery at the same time

docs told me more than half of people with that injury suffer paralysis and need a respirator the rest of their lives... and the torn artery could have caused a stroke at any moment

Apr 6 2013 10:08PM

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stupendous-man

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similar story happened to me when I was 10ish on a family backpacking trip, but there was a lake at the bottom instead. This lake is about 4 feet deep where i landed, but luckily there was log in the water to stop my momentum from carrying me farther into the lake. If i had gone another 3 feet farther the lake drops off and becomes about 20 feet deep, which I wouldnt have been able to swim out of (I had a ~15 lb backpacking pack on and wasnt a strong swimmer at the time). so sketchy for my little 10 yr old self

Apr 6 2013 10:17PM

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This is part of the reason I don't ski big mountain very often. The "rush" of hiking and skiing down is just not worth being scared shitless, and potentially dying. This is just me, though.

Apr 6 2013 10:27PM

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Just check the conditions and make sure its low avalanche danger, and find safe lines

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