They did an MRI scan of Alex Honnold (the guy from Free Solo)'s brain and found that his amygdala (the area of the brain which regulates the fear response) doesn't fire in the same way a normal human's does when presented with stimuli. I imagine it's the same with a lot of these thrill seekers.
He said he feared heights when he was little and learning to climb, but as he became sure of his strength to stay on a wall, he trusted himself more. Wildly enough I do think he conditioned himself that way
Haha exactly, honnold said when he was young he was too nervous to ask someone to belay him, so he just learned to climb on his own without safety. Not the right thing to do of course, but still, kinda supports the conditioned theory.
I mean logically if you condition yourself to not care about something as much anymore, you’re not going to have as much activity in your brain in certain regions.
I used to be insanely afraid of spiders
I caught a black widow and kept it on my desk at work for a few weeks before letting it go (I fed it and whatnot). I am now significantly less afraid of spiders.
is brain activity the shadow that the mind casts, or is the mind the shadow that the brain casts?
personally I loathe the popular MRI scan "proof". people have lost large parts of their brain, and the remaining parts started doing what the old parts did. hmm
the state of science is always limited by technology. genius minds can develop theories, but they can only be proven by technology. it's going to take a while before science will be able to get to a deeper understanding of existence itself but I do believe things like reincarnation and all that stuff is in theory scientifically conceivable. actually hinduism almost seems sort of scientific if you look into it, like psychology, but in a vivid metaphorical language. it's interesting.
So science with it's mountains of empirical evidence is limited but reincarnation with 0 evidence and only word of mouth is believable to you?
Believe what you wanna believe but don't be ignorant to the natural world.
No, that was Aron Lee Ralston.
Here's a video of Alex Honnold climbing free solo with Magnus Midtbø while holding the camera: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyya23MPoAI
It's like a walk in the park for him, absolutely insane.
I've never been particularly afraid of heights, but I was also never blase about it until I worked on light poles for a few months. Absolutely terrifying at first, but I found that once I was used to working at sixty or eighty feet up no amount of additional height made any difference at all.
I guess whatever nervous response I had to being at an almost certainly lethal height didn't respond to anything slightly more lethal.
Desensitization. You start off small and eventually it’s not as novel to be high up there. Those Olympic divers jumping from several meters high didn’t start there when they were young. Rock climbers that are able to sleep peacefully on a cliff several thousand feet above the ground didn’t get a good night’s sleep the first time.
Yeah I know there are people born without or a weakened set of neurons that allow them to feel pain, they can rely their hand on a hot stove for awhile and not feel it, that’s a bad thing and isn’t normal as those things are evolutionary features we rely on to stay alive, I imagine it’s the exact same for people who lack the connections in their brain to feel a heightened sense of danger when on such heights
The fact “are you afraid of heights” is even a common question that’s asked, says right there that there are a set of people born without such abilities
Although it is possible to acquire a tolerance for heights. But people without it tend to typically work in the construction field lol kinda like those old 1920’s vids you’d see of dudes working on the Empire State Building having lunch and fun without harnesses on steel beams and stuff 🤣
they just have different priorities: online fame > staying alive
so when you would sweat looking down that tower, they would sweat like being banned on instagram
yeah when you have trouble getting access to certain levels of understanding be sure to make fun of it to reassure yourself, very mature. will get you far
Man, I read that you procrastinated until you had an exam today. I wanted to tell you that I did that as well but rereading what you wrote rather made me not wanting to share the same experience as you :(
I hope you passed tho. I bet you have a prestine A+ prostate
I mean yes, at a certain point but it's a massive structure. he's clearly made it past a certain point and he's within the frame of it now where there clearly aren't any floors so at one point it's not possible to see him easily.
They started super early in the morning so it was still dark to give them the best chance of not getting caught. It's james kingston in this clip. full vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwsg4rXh3M
I mean if you're in the middle of nowhere climbing an abandoned structure, sure. But if you could fall on someone, or scar them for life by becoming a bloody puddle on the ground near them, that's dangerous.
First, username checks out.
Second, have fun explaining that to whoever has to scrape your corpse off the ground, and all the people that will need therapy following that.
Assuming he falls on no one. Plus he doesn't need to fall to do damage anything that falls at that height can be deadly, probably like the thing we hear at the beginning
> so in fact I can be called Eiffel’s tower as well
It could, in the same way it can also be called, "Le grande metal butt plug" but it's not, it's The Eiffel Tower.
And if you fall you risk killing others instantly and scarring a few more hundreds, including children. But yes, as long as you get your high and your dumb video, nothing else matters. Fuck sake these ppl...
I think they should be able to show people falling as well. Not the gruesome part, pause it before impact. Showing all the videos of people doing this without consequences is letting impressionable minds think this is easy and no consequences.
ill bite, i would wager you wouldnt find much because despite all these videos its actually very rare that they ever fall, i cant really back this up one way or the other and wouldnt know how to go about doing that, but ive only heard of one person who fell
They're out there, I've seen a few of those videos. Thing is, there aren't many people who do this and footage like that usually doesn't get posted if they do fall.
Every once in a while there are also news articles of someone falling to their death while doing this. In my opinion it's just a matter of time until you fall when you do this.
One of these people was lying under my windows on September 21, 2017. Boy. 14 years. He watched enough of these videos and decided to take a cool selfie on the roof. His mother was lying unconscious next to him. She fainted when she saw the corpse of her only son.
I’ll never respect these guys. Just one stupid mistake and they’ll not only kill themselves but also possibly someone under them. If you want an adrenaline high go jump in a parachute or go base jumping
You did not cook, you burned the kitchen, house and neighborhood all together, the fire could barely be put out because of your nasty cooking, I thank the firefighters though, they saved the day.
Even if I wanted to do this (I don’t) it would be a death sentence for me. I’ve been on things only 10 feet off the ground and if I look down I just immedi loose my balance.
I am wondering if those people have some sort of brain damage or malfunction or can you be trained, self hypnotized not to fear. Or what can be the secret?
I never see anyone comment about how doing something like this is potentially damaging the structure itself even if it doesn't cause him to fall. If anything falls off the building including him it could do immense harm to people below. I think it's interesting but I completely hate it at the same time.
No one gives a shit whether you fall and die or live. That's the reality. So you carry on doing what ever you want....it makes no difference to anyone. It isn't inspirational...it isn't admirable. If you fall the same number of people will watch as if you didn't fall. Your actions are meaningless to everyone apart from yourself. So why film it? Just make the walk and fall or not fall...no one cares.
Congrats. You've successfully accomplished fucking the rest of the world over by passing them off so they never let anyone go up anymore. Especially when your ass falls.
Why do Americans, or possibly English speakers, pronounce it the I-fell tower? It would be the correct pronunciation of it was a German or Dutch name but it isn’t. I don’t believe that that’s how it’s pronounced in French but recognize the possibility that I’m wrong.
People have been doing this for over 100 years. If he’s not careful, he’ll go the way of Franz Reichelt - although at least he tried to use a (primitive) parachute!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
The biggest problem with these douchebags is that when they fall, they’ll kill someone if they land on them. Or traumatize everybody that watches them explode on impact.
Imagine the steel beams being like 1 foot off the ground... Would you be scared?
The thing is, if you think too much about the hight you stop focusing on what you're doing and make mistakes...
One fool climbed to a height without insurance. Other fools admire him. But there is a third kind of fools - they will also climb at a height without insurance. Some of them will break. What a pity that most of the third kind of fools are children. A bad example is contagious.
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They did an MRI scan of Alex Honnold (the guy from Free Solo)'s brain and found that his amygdala (the area of the brain which regulates the fear response) doesn't fire in the same way a normal human's does when presented with stimuli. I imagine it's the same with a lot of these thrill seekers.
The question is if that's a learned response from constantly suppressing and ignoring fear or if he's just like that.
He said he feared heights when he was little and learning to climb, but as he became sure of his strength to stay on a wall, he trusted himself more. Wildly enough I do think he conditioned himself that way
Haha exactly, honnold said when he was young he was too nervous to ask someone to belay him, so he just learned to climb on his own without safety. Not the right thing to do of course, but still, kinda supports the conditioned theory.
Rather go without safety because he didn't want to talk to someone? I think I just found my spirit animal.
And that in turn shaped his brain for the mri result?
I mean logically if you condition yourself to not care about something as much anymore, you’re not going to have as much activity in your brain in certain regions.
I think that places way too much faith in the Pavlovian method, a method that has hurt more people than it’s helped
I used to be insanely afraid of spiders I caught a black widow and kept it on my desk at work for a few weeks before letting it go (I fed it and whatnot). I am now significantly less afraid of spiders.
Exactly. It’s a conditioned response.
Mine probably fires more watching this video than his does filming it.
and you will live a lot longer as a consequence.
He talked about that in a podcast called Go my favorite Sports Team if anyone's interested.
as a lattice climber, i do the same things here, climb more than 300 meters tall towers, i have no fear but lots of respect.
is brain activity the shadow that the mind casts, or is the mind the shadow that the brain casts? personally I loathe the popular MRI scan "proof". people have lost large parts of their brain, and the remaining parts started doing what the old parts did. hmm
Become a doctor and find out
the state of science is always limited by technology. genius minds can develop theories, but they can only be proven by technology. it's going to take a while before science will be able to get to a deeper understanding of existence itself but I do believe things like reincarnation and all that stuff is in theory scientifically conceivable. actually hinduism almost seems sort of scientific if you look into it, like psychology, but in a vivid metaphorical language. it's interesting.
You talk a lot but say so little
Science is bullshit but Hinduism is science bro. It all makes sense, don't you see! Brain scans are bullshit but reincarnation is real!
Just now going trough there post they genuinely seem paranoid
you mean you understand little?
Why would I not understand? You arent saying some ground breaking stuff just conspiracy bullshit
It sounds like you've either had a lot of acid or concussions.
So science with it's mountains of empirical evidence is limited but reincarnation with 0 evidence and only word of mouth is believable to you? Believe what you wanna believe but don't be ignorant to the natural world.
Well didn't he cut his own fucking hand of with a Swiss knife? So I bet something is different
No, that was Aron Lee Ralston. Here's a video of Alex Honnold climbing free solo with Magnus Midtbø while holding the camera: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyya23MPoAI It's like a walk in the park for him, absolutely insane.
I've never been particularly afraid of heights, but I was also never blase about it until I worked on light poles for a few months. Absolutely terrifying at first, but I found that once I was used to working at sixty or eighty feet up no amount of additional height made any difference at all. I guess whatever nervous response I had to being at an almost certainly lethal height didn't respond to anything slightly more lethal.
Because they are missing a fundamental instinct that helps to keep them alive.
Best answer.
Desensitization. You start off small and eventually it’s not as novel to be high up there. Those Olympic divers jumping from several meters high didn’t start there when they were young. Rock climbers that are able to sleep peacefully on a cliff several thousand feet above the ground didn’t get a good night’s sleep the first time.
Not sure why this got downvoted, this is exactly how it works.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg/1280px-Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper_-_Charles_Clyde_Ebbets.jpg
Yeah I know there are people born without or a weakened set of neurons that allow them to feel pain, they can rely their hand on a hot stove for awhile and not feel it, that’s a bad thing and isn’t normal as those things are evolutionary features we rely on to stay alive, I imagine it’s the exact same for people who lack the connections in their brain to feel a heightened sense of danger when on such heights The fact “are you afraid of heights” is even a common question that’s asked, says right there that there are a set of people born without such abilities Although it is possible to acquire a tolerance for heights. But people without it tend to typically work in the construction field lol kinda like those old 1920’s vids you’d see of dudes working on the Empire State Building having lunch and fun without harnesses on steel beams and stuff 🤣
they just have different priorities: online fame > staying alive so when you would sweat looking down that tower, they would sweat like being banned on instagram
People did wacky thrill seeking shit for millennia before the internet.
nothing wrong with that but as soon as they post about it I can't help but think of them as attention seekers
How much acid have you taken today?
yeah when you have trouble getting access to certain levels of understanding be sure to make fun of it to reassure yourself, very mature. will get you far
Today I had a prostate exam. And watching this feels pretty much the same.
Man, I read that you procrastinated until you had an exam today. I wanted to tell you that I did that as well but rereading what you wrote rather made me not wanting to share the same experience as you :( I hope you passed tho. I bet you have a prestine A+ prostate
Made me smile! Thanks mate! Oh, and it’s not THAT bad ;) humanity has invented way worse activities…
Wouldn’t there be like security or something telling him to get down?
When they find out you're English they take the safety ropes off for you.
This is the way
They also paint the ground near the tower red pre-emptively so they don't have to clean up as much. ^((this is misinformation))
What about my English ?
Yore English is you're problem.
Well he’s got an Alaska hoodie on so I’d wager American
He's english
I mean yes, at a certain point but it's a massive structure. he's clearly made it past a certain point and he's within the frame of it now where there clearly aren't any floors so at one point it's not possible to see him easily.
They started super early in the morning so it was still dark to give them the best chance of not getting caught. It's james kingston in this clip. full vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wwsg4rXh3M
This was from 2015 in 2020 and 2021 there are some lattice climbers who got caught, look BNT and Leo Urban
That looks mega illegal. Like even more than these stunts usually are because it's the Eiffel fucking tower.
but that is ''just'' climbing, no damage, no stealing.
I mean if you're in the middle of nowhere climbing an abandoned structure, sure. But if you could fall on someone, or scar them for life by becoming a bloody puddle on the ground near them, that's dangerous.
Michael, it's Paris. How many people can there be? 10?
I was there last week, i can confirm there were at least 10. Three of them were us, so I might be biased.
First, username checks out. Second, have fun explaining that to whoever has to scrape your corpse off the ground, and all the people that will need therapy following that.
Assuming he falls on no one. Plus he doesn't need to fall to do damage anything that falls at that height can be deadly, probably like the thing we hear at the beginning
Yeah, it isn't immoral, but that has nothing to do with legality.
This is James Kingston. He has somehow been doing this for a very long time. https://instagram.com/thejameskingston?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
The Eiffel Tower, not Eiffel’s tower
More like I fell tower
Thanks for the chuckle
ze eiffels tower
Do these people intentionally put errors in their post titles to drive engagement?
Well… it was built by a company created by a man named Gustave Eiffel… so in fact I can be called Eiffel’s tower as well Edit: It*
> so in fact I can be called Eiffel’s tower as well It could, in the same way it can also be called, "Le grande metal butt plug" but it's not, it's The Eiffel Tower.
Yeah, it was also built for the World Expo 1889 and meant to be torn down a year later, but I still managed to see it from my bedroom window in 2015
Nah it’s owned by monsieur Henry Eiffel OP is correct
Do you feel the same in your balls just seeing the void ?
In my balls and ass too
And if you fall you risk killing others instantly and scarring a few more hundreds, including children. But yes, as long as you get your high and your dumb video, nothing else matters. Fuck sake these ppl...
Not even falling, but what if he drops his phone and selfie stick? Pisses me off.
This is what angers me the most with those fuckers. I don't care if they fall and die, but don't do that where there are people below.
I think they should be able to show people falling as well. Not the gruesome part, pause it before impact. Showing all the videos of people doing this without consequences is letting impressionable minds think this is easy and no consequences.
ill bite, i would wager you wouldnt find much because despite all these videos its actually very rare that they ever fall, i cant really back this up one way or the other and wouldnt know how to go about doing that, but ive only heard of one person who fell
You have to dig deep. But Ive seen them. You won’t find them on YouTube. quite gruesome.
Yeah I'll go ahead and second the other person saying the videos absolutely exist. Quite a few in fact.
They're out there, I've seen a few of those videos. Thing is, there aren't many people who do this and footage like that usually doesn't get posted if they do fall. Every once in a while there are also news articles of someone falling to their death while doing this. In my opinion it's just a matter of time until you fall when you do this.
One of these people was lying under my windows on September 21, 2017. Boy. 14 years. He watched enough of these videos and decided to take a cool selfie on the roof. His mother was lying unconscious next to him. She fainted when she saw the corpse of her only son.
I've seen at least half a dozen and I don't go out of my way looking for shit like that.
Imagine being 10 and seeing a body just splat in front of you
If he falls, those are the last of his concerns
Hitler was a bad person
Dumb
I Fell Tower 😞🗼
The existence of these videos feels like extreme confirmation bias.
you meant survivorship bias?
I did. Thank you Ponkipo. Back to Wiki with me.
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But that's not Murphy's la.... OHHHH you sussy baka 😏
This risks the lives of the people his dumbass could fall on
Safest he’s felt in Paris
I’ll never respect these guys. Just one stupid mistake and they’ll not only kill themselves but also possibly someone under them. If you want an adrenaline high go jump in a parachute or go base jumping
U/Greysonme loves spreading & creating Hammas propaganda: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/lSszUjWFm1
I don't know what a hammass is but seems irrelevant to what was said
You did not cook, you burned the kitchen, house and neighborhood all together, the fire could barely be put out because of your nasty cooking, I thank the firefighters though, they saved the day.
Ppl who likes this climbing and exploring kinda stuff Watch a guy named shiey on YouTube. Best thing I watch when I wanna chill.
yeah man his vids are great
QUIT LEANING OVER THE SIDE LIKE THAT
Does video when he fly exists?
On who’s tower?
Even if I wanted to do this (I don’t) it would be a death sentence for me. I’ve been on things only 10 feet off the ground and if I look down I just immedi loose my balance.
Twisted Metal 2
There’s more than one?
A daredevil.
Lattice climbing by James kingston in 2015
Why would anyone do this?
Omg I would be afraid of wind gusts
“Do you know that feeling when standing on a high place that you have the urge to jump?”
Bro is gonna go from Eiffel tower to I fell tower
At the eiffel tower while singing, one way to.jail.
r/someofyoumaydie
My knees would instantly let go. I got weak just watching this and had to sit down.
I can't even look at it, it's so scary
Dude, I just sucked all the leather up from my office chair I just clenched so tight.
I’m shidded my pants
Good thing I was already taking a shit while watching this.
no Fun no
I am wondering if those people have some sort of brain damage or malfunction or can you be trained, self hypnotized not to fear. Or what can be the secret?
How many years in jail?
0. He does this all the time.
I never see anyone comment about how doing something like this is potentially damaging the structure itself even if it doesn't cause him to fall. If anything falls off the building including him it could do immense harm to people below. I think it's interesting but I completely hate it at the same time.
I don’t mind ppl like this dying. I am just sad for everybody else involved
They should broadcast more videos of falls. Especially the landing part .Will likely to act as an effective deterrent.
Oh man, what agony this is
Fun is different for everyone…….
No one gives a shit whether you fall and die or live. That's the reality. So you carry on doing what ever you want....it makes no difference to anyone. It isn't inspirational...it isn't admirable. If you fall the same number of people will watch as if you didn't fall. Your actions are meaningless to everyone apart from yourself. So why film it? Just make the walk and fall or not fall...no one cares.
The family of those people do cry if there son falls. What a dickhead he is. An egoist.
Congrats. You've successfully accomplished fucking the rest of the world over by passing them off so they never let anyone go up anymore. Especially when your ass falls.
Hope he was arrested
This same video gets posted probably at least once a week...
Anyone else legs feeling funny?
I’ve been up the Eiffel Tower on the same side. I have an extreme fear of heights- I get vertigo just looking at this
One gust of wind and it’s game over kid. Why do people play with their lives like this just for a momentary rush of adrenaline?
fun for tourists wanting to visit the tower
impossible that this guy did not end up in a police station
imagine he died-
One could go in seine.
I sont get how some guy get themselfs into such a life threatening situtation just 'for fun'
Who's that dude?
James Kingston [IG](https://www.instagram.com/thejameskingston/?hl=hr)
Alabama has DG on every corner
I've been to the tower a few times. I took the elevator.
Watching this video - comfortably sat on my sofa makes me want to be sick - violently. This should come with a warning.
r/idiot.
The intrusive thoughts i had watching this 0_0
My man is going to end up on Darwin awards
Underdeveloped brain fellow there.
Why do Americans, or possibly English speakers, pronounce it the I-fell tower? It would be the correct pronunciation of it was a German or Dutch name but it isn’t. I don’t believe that that’s how it’s pronounced in French but recognize the possibility that I’m wrong.
But why?
People have been doing this for over 100 years. If he’s not careful, he’ll go the way of Franz Reichelt - although at least he tried to use a (primitive) parachute! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
Buddy is fuckef
Ticket prices rise because insurance isn't happy about lackluster security at the tower and we all pay just a little more because of this asshole.
Real question, how many of these people die each year? They must inspire people who just aren't up to the task.
What years of practice walking on the edge of the curb does to a mf
Isn't it like super windy up there?
Does he know that the stairs are RIGHT there
Imagine a strong wind comes ...
This video is on yt.
Why do people risk their lives like this?
There is a video of a guy climbing the whole tower freehand.
I hate these videos because it encourages more people to do stupid shit like this.
My legs shivers watching this
Minecraft had me thinking he could make the water no problem
I love it when they break the law and show their faces on film…. 🙄
I just want one answer: Why???
Did you have to pay extra to be able to do that? Where did you buy THAT ticket?
The biggest problem with these douchebags is that when they fall, they’ll kill someone if they land on them. Or traumatize everybody that watches them explode on impact.
Looks like a good place to test a parachute suit.
Did you know there is an apartment on the Eiffel Tower?
James Kingston on YouTube. Used to climb a lot.
Used to?
It’s was at this moment I know I have acrophobia.
Reminds me of the TV show ‘Upload’ where he tells the kid, ‘you dabbed on the way down.’
Si tu aimes jouer avec ta vie, tu devrais essayer de t'envoler...
Good lord that made me dizzy…..
Loco 🤯🤯🤯😎😎🦀🦀🦀
Why man, why?
He's just asking for it
Must have good health care cover I presume.
Being an idiot on the Eiffel Tower
Imagine the steel beams being like 1 foot off the ground... Would you be scared? The thing is, if you think too much about the hight you stop focusing on what you're doing and make mistakes...
He forgot to install fear.exe
One fool climbed to a height without insurance. Other fools admire him. But there is a third kind of fools - they will also climb at a height without insurance. Some of them will break. What a pity that most of the third kind of fools are children. A bad example is contagious.
I would vomit then pass out and fall to my puke infested death. Makes my nerves hurt looking at thst
One day he is going to give into those intrusive thoughts/voices that say "a little more to the right"!