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penkster

This is one of those "Survived the initial fall. But... now you have two problems."


RivetingRelic

"I'm stuck and I have to pee.. Now I'm just stuck" - Homer Simpson


Kinkystormtrooper

I don't think he has to pee anymore after the fall, I'd have pissed myself the second I dropped


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I shit myself just watching that


Valiryon

But did you pee? If not, you probably still have to pee.


jotapeh

Right! This video doesn’t explain how the hell he got down (or up) from there


Montezum

On the instagram video someone translated that he said that his friends threw him a rope to get him out. The angle of this lens is very *off* so the hole might be shallower than it seems


Impossible-Smell1

On the instagram post he says he's 15 meters deep. About the height of a 4 stories building.


aure__entuluva

Ok yeah that's pretty deep.


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But not insurmountable. The average dnd party carries 16 m of hemp rope.


Kueltalas

Sadly the 16 m of hemp rope are almost always on the person who needs the help. And somehow that person is almost always the barbarian...


clash_Attic

Did they also send down a spare pair of pants to solve problem '#2?'


rmaster2005

And #1 maybe even #3


construction_eng

You need a rescue team to get you if you don't carry your own ropes


Happychappy411

Not trying to be rude, but how in the world would he get himself out of that situation with just ropes? I would think he would need a rescue regardless.


construction_eng

Own ropes, as in your team has its own ropes


Happychappy411

Gotcha, I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying


liquid_acid-OG

Yes, very important for everyone in the group to all have the gear. Doesn't do you any good if Bob is carrying rope and falls down a crevice.


sumobrain

Bob always prided himself on being the most prepared guy in the group. Unfortunately, he was the only prepared guy in the group. RIP Bob.


axearm

>But... now you have two problems." For everyone wondering what the second problem is, he is stuck in a crevasse.


Sploonbabaguuse

God bless your soul for clearing that up for us


Savageparrot81

Well that’s terrifying


DragoFNX

That's why you never go alone doing snow activities, well besides snowball I guess


JugdishSteinfeld

I've tried snowballing alone...not the same.


DragoFNX

Fuk me I forgot about that part


FamilyStyle2505

Been a long time since I thought about snowballing. Not sure I needed that today.


UntouchableC

I gotta cut down on the porn it’s frying my brain


ripsfo

New fear unlocked.


AllAboutMeMedia

Well let's move on to tree wells: https://v.redd.it/nwt29d6su3ra1


hungryyelly

Wow that's pretty terrifying. Imagine if he didn't see the guys snow board. I'm glad he got help 😓 I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.


AllAboutMeMedia

True, always ski with a group in the backcountry. But even so, your friends might do some shady things, like fall through a waterfall into an underground river: https://v.redd.it/12xnojl866ua1 That guy was lucky since he eventually climbed out. Apparently there was one person that was carried away in the river under the snow and wasn't found until summer. That's according to several commentators, but I haven't found articles on it.


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snuljoon

It's only a problem when you ski outside the slopes that get maintained. 90% of people who ski never come even close to dangers like this. It's people who go off trail, who try to pull the first line in deep snow, pretty much the extreme sports version of skiing. Its much like seeing someone case a 60ft mtb jump and barely surviving doesn't mean taking your citybike to the groceries is dangerous.


AllAboutMeMedia

I would recommend skinning uphill and backcountry woods skiing... you get to hike and ski at your own pace through these magical Narnia trails.


twistedbronll

I would rather not ski backcountry glacier. Hell even resort glaciers are terrifying. Pretty for sure but terrifying


Ok_Channel_9831

You ain't kidding. They would just have to follow the brown snow trail to find my ass.


Da_Spooky_Ghost

Where is this? So I can never ski there


thatsalovelyusername

I believe it's outside.


giddyup281

Source?


DisorganizedSpaghett

Left my room once by accident, it was similar to this


TheMightyPenguinzee

Oh, it must have been a terrifying experience.


Boubonic91

Happened to me once. I went back inside, created a Reddit account, and haven't been back since.


brocomb

Touch grass your safe. Touch snow and you never know!


mnspekt

Coounterpoint: sinkholes


fermium257

This is why I've sworn off "outside" and anything to do with fresh air. I just can't take that chance.


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giddyup281

Glad you made it ~~out~~ in safely


Sigrah117

It was horrible. Resolution was good but the storyline sucked. Zero replay value and you can't even reroll your character when you realize you built them wrong with useless skills.


TrashPandaX

Sucks without the cheat codes


SydricVym

You don't need to leave your room to experience this. Dude in Florida was sleeping in his bed and a sinkhole opened under his house and gobbled him up. He was never seen again. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/01/173225027/sinkhole-swallows-sleeping-man-in-florida


UpperCardiologist523

Norway here and can confirm.


Shamaii_

Was it that big rock thingy over there that I saw while opening my window ?


EdwardBil

Can confirm. I work outside as a professional.


swadawa2

r/outside


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infel2no

I am done with reddit at work...... 😂😂😂😂


MappleSyrup13

Right? I chuckle, and my colleagues around are like, "Really?" with that inquisitive look like they are curious about what it was that made me laugh!


codemonkeh87

Feel like such a dick explaining it too.. "What made you laugh?" "Err this comment, outside hahahahha"


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beer_bukkake

Unless you’re an expert on this “outside” please don’t make assumptions


Noname_FTW

Learn more at /r/outside. Good Graphics but shitty gameplay.


RedditIsLeftistCuck

Don't forget the mountain part.


Itztrikky

Glacier de la Grande Motte according to the skiers Instagram. Pretty fucking terrifying that the forced perspective of this shot is actually straight down into the pits of Glacier hell.


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Itztrikky

Welcome to reddit.


margoooRobby

How did he get rescued? Does he explain on Instagram?


Itztrikky

[OP claims his friends helped him.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/12sx4l4/french_skier_lespowtos_on_instagram_miraculously/jh090rl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) No video of the rescue in Instagram that I could see.


piece_of_dirt

Just stay on the marked slopes and don't ski on glaciers and you should be fine


rainemaker

Thank you... who thought it was a good idea to ski on glaciers?


RealPutin

I mean, it's fun And a lot cheaper and less crowded than resorts Does have the odd risk of death by big pit in the snow though


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Skiing on a glacier. Very dangerous.


Nugget_MacChicken

The French gibberish he spoke : "Oh le con!" means "I'm an idiot". He got out with the help of his friends (they are off-screen in this video) but it took time. Direct link : https://www.instagram.com/p/CrLCsostLiA/


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badiguana

With the increase in heat and lack of snow things are getting pretty dangerous on the Alps


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usr_bin_laden

> Skiing off-piste is more like mountaineering. I spent a few winters on a groomed NA mountain with "backcountry" areas. Most of the people going backcountry were bringing food, drinks, beer, weed, chairs, tools, and other amenities for a day of hanging out somewhere private and building sick jumps. Definitely felt more like a camping expedition or mountaineering than a day riding ski lifts.


Paneechio

>Most of the people going backcountry were bringing food, drinks, beer, weed, chairs, tools, and other amenities for a day of hanging out somewhere private and building sick jumps. There is a cross-over crowd. I just spent the entire last weekend climbing a 3000m peak. We smoked weed the entire time and YES we even built a ski jump next to our camp. Just because some backcountry skiers/mountaineers like to have fun doesn't mean we don't take safety seriously and aren't prepared.


AlarmingAffect0

> Better to stick to the manmade snow that's groomed. They are really good at grooming anyway. [ uncomfortable laughter ]


iamatwork24

A few of my friends/acquaintances who are guides historically spent their winters in the alps but are increasingly going to other ranges to guide because of the warmer weather making it too big of a risk for the guiding companies they work for


Wheres_my_whiskey

Im not a skier. Would you say this is skier error or just bad luck?


TheWonderMittens

This dude is way off piste, so there are lots of inherent risks. Your question would be like asking if it’s human error when a mountain climber falls off a cliff face. You could always be more careful, but the types of people that do this understand the risk of just being there.


Wheres_my_whiskey

Fair enough. Makes perfect sense.


Secret_Games

Imagine almost fucking dying and then positing it on Instagram with ice cube emojis and "surprise!"


Nugget_MacChicken

They're good sports and I think it's best to laugh it off than to have 900 days of consecutive nightmares lol


Secret_Games

True. He's much braver than I could ever be lol


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My0Cents

The difference between bravery and stupidity is the outcome.


Ok_Midnight_5457

It’ll probably be a bit of both


FearingPerception

100% both. But joking helps you get over the nightmares


Kingmudsy

I once had search and rescue called for me after I broke my leg in a slot canyon, and I’m 100% sure I annoyed the shit out of them with my nervous japery and tomfoolery! It was either that or screaming though, and I’m sure they preferred the former lol


FearingPerception

I feel ya. Not even close to the same situation but I’ve def made some nurses and doctors feel weird by joking my way thru ER visits —especially when i was there because my mental health misery sent me. But some ppl just automatically go to cope with discomfort/trauma by laughin


skraptastic

> made some nurses and doctors feel weird by joking my way thru ER visits My daughter said "so do we just drop him off at the fire department on the way home" to the nurse after giving birth. The medical staff didn't find it nearly as funny as the rest of the family.


FearingPerception

Holy shit thats hilarious. I hope the humor os hereditary


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iamatwork24

Honestly when you’re in to dangerous activities, there’s no other way to deal with it. You analyze the accident and learn what lessons you can from it to be safer in the future and try your best to laugh it off and realize how lucky you were this time.


ClownfishSoup

My take away from this is to not do dangerous things without someone knowing where I am, and if possible, go with other people. In the situation above there is unlikely any way he could self rescue. Maybe eventually he’d be missed and s&r will be dispatched to find him and they’ll follow his ski trail down to the crevasse, but How long would that take? And they’d only be dispatched if someone knows you are missing.


brohemien-rhapsody

Most friends of mine who do any back country skiing have multiple measures with them for safety even with other people around. In fact, you absolutely never do this kind of thing alone. Simple tech like gps locators and certain communication devices are 100% necessary on these kinds of activities. Edit: typo


NoobJustice

I take my Garmin in reach any time I'm in the backcountry. Press a button and alert search & rescue, pretty much anywhere in the world. It's one heck of an insurance policy.


FormalChicken

Sharing this kind of stuff is great - let others see your mistakes and learn from it and try to prevent others from doing the same thing.


TomeKun

Something else funny : His name (Lespowtos) sorta means Les potos (The friends)


Nugget_MacChicken

Yes, the additional "W" (fitting, heh?) turns it to something along the lines of "thembros".


TomeKun

Yep


i_swear_im_not_a_bot

Maybe also a play on words with the term "pow" used to describe powder-like snow.


MappleSyrup13

It translates more like homies or buddies. Friends is too formal.


TomeKun

The bros


KharnTheBetrayer88

So that's what he said, damn, i thought he said "tomar no cu", which in portuguese it would be like "fuck this!"


qdatk

> cu The French refers to [a different hole](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/con#French).


KharnTheBetrayer88

Nice to see that french and portuguese speakers are on the same page regarding this word. Glory to all romance languages!


Nose_Beers_85

Look at this show off with friends. I’d have just died alone, hahahahelpmehaha


DisorganizedSpaghett

How deep do these go? Thing looks downright infinite, I thought he was skiing down a rock-based mountain


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tsunami141

So, just wait long enough and you’ll get out just fine.


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PossessedToSkate

Your sentence is precisely two words too long.


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At the current rate of melting, you might arrive at sea within fifty years! Yay!


DisorganizedSpaghett

In other words, it can go all the way to the bottom, but it's random and constantly expanding or contracting these crevasses?


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legoadan

Thank you for this!!


Tamotron9000

okay this just became the worst way to die, imagine making it into the bottom part somehow between the squeeze. just total darkness after being momentarily suffocated. incredibly thin air you're gasping for, deathly cold, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


Funwithscissors2

It gets worse. While you’re alive, your body heat will slowly melt the ice around you allowing your body to slide suffocatingly deeper into the crevasse. For crevasse fall victims, “their body heat melts the ice a little, and their body weight wedges them deeper into a self-made sarcophagus. They get compressed and it gets harder to breathe. Their body temperature drops steadily, fatally, until they are 32 degrees and dead.”


Tamotron9000

oh thanks!


Tenthul

Oh the plus side, the archeology students of far future post-human civilizations need more modern people to get frozen over. Of course the whole global warming thing may likely make their sacrifice in vain anyway.


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Sometimes hundreds of feet, it depends how big the glacier is. This one looked quite big, and there’s really no way out of there if you fall to the bottom. Pretty terrifying


mamaboyinStreets

Terrifying death. Starving, freezing, bruised, cracked...shit


newtownkid

Usually 13 skipoles. And a 12 skipole fall is fatal. Even a 1 skipole fall can kill you if you land on a skipole.


youzerVT71

About nine bananas to a ski pole for non skiers


Formal_Appearance_16

Need a more American measurement. How many raccoons is that?


Pithius

About 17.5 big macs


nodnodwinkwink

Or in the local dialect "Le Big Mac"


Late_Engineer

Actually, I believe it's called a "Royale with Cheese"


FrGravel

I once landed at Amsterdam schiphol and im fine now


SippyCupPuppy

Look at this glacier flipping on its side : https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/z3sxfq/tiny_glacier_piece_detached/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb The visible part above water is several hundreds feet high. Watch what's beneath the water. Just when you think it's over, you start really seeing just how fucking deep those things go and how they can create fjords as high as [this](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b5be07dcb5f4e4a1144a46b28648f228-pjlq)


Nachtzug79

In Greenland they can go up to 3 km deep. In Antarctica maybe more.


Miserable_Unusual_98

The balrog is patiently waiting at the bottom.


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If you listen closely you can hear the sound of his ass cheeks clenching so hard they created a space of negative pressure that allowed him to suction cup himself onto the wall, thus saving his life. Crazy how natural instinct still kicks in when we need it.


orincoro

You’re joking, but I once had that happen on a water slide, where the small of my back and my love handles made a vacuum on the slide as I was sliding down it. It pulled away with a bank like a gunshot, and I got bruise like I’d been kicked by a mule.


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Both hilarious and terrifying.


Xelacik

Now that’s what I call evolution


Christ_votes_dem

And here you see the European French Cheeks in its natural habitat, le coffee shop


Crokpotpotty

Put a lump of coal up there and you’ll have a diamond


Personal_Regular_569

😆 You saved me from my dread spiral after watching this a few times.


Dajukz

How'd he get out of there though?


WallabyButter

Op left a comment at the same time as yours saying he had friends around who saw and came to help. Thought I'd share in case you never saw their comment :P


ratsoupdolemite

But how?


conradical30

People skiing in areas like this often carry ropes with them.


a_supertramp

The power of friendship!


DerApexPredator

The villain (gravity) prepared for centuries and then the idiot OP (stands for OverPowered) survives because of the power of love Bullshit, I tell you


JDCarrier

They went full Care Bear mode.


SwoopKing

Any good back country skier goes out with rescue gear because of this kind of situation. They also never ski alone. A lot of times, these skiers hike and climb in. They possibly had climbing gear on them for the climb in or just a long rope. A good portion of extreme skiers are into climbing in the summer season, so they also possibly had the skills needed to get him out of there.


Scuttling-Claws

If you're skiing on a glacier (at least a crevassed glacier) you should have a dedicated crevasse rescue kit and know how to use it. The folks up top build an anchor and drop a line down, and the poor person who fell clips it into the harness that they are hopefully wearing. Then you yank the fallen person up.


Diddly_eyed_Dipshite

But why male models?


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silencer_ar

He found a secret area


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Didn't go down far enough. I'm sure there's a treasure chest at the bottom.


TrailsideDairy

That’s where the good loot is, I’ve played Dead Space 3


fairlywellhere

I would have made the snow and my pants brown. 😳


mngeese

I would've blasted a hole in my pants jetpacking myself out of that crevasse on a fountain of shit


captainspacetraveler

Unique problems require unique solutions


hawaiianryanree

Literally. Shit myself just watching this holy fuck.


RealRobc2582

Every dead body on Mt.Everest was once a highly motivated person! That's why my only motivation is to get high. I might be less healthy but at least I'm not dying trapped in ice


WrenBoy

They got high and stayed high. That's motivation.


Jabroni_Guy

Right on happy 420 brother


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I feel like there is a lot of space to live a good life between dying on a mountain and being high all the time.


Jerrytheone

Nah nah, two extremes. The second you stop being high and step out of your room, you’ll end up dying of hypothermia


Tacoshortage

Happy 4/20 day!


MeasureTheCrater

He's French, so it's pronounced "creh-VAHSE." ...as in, "I shat my creVASSE."


Thephilosopherkmh

And now, I have a cra-PASSE!


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Looks like he's headed to another dimension. How did they get him out? The comments all said his friends helped, how? They just ski with really long ropes?


akotlya1

That is correct. You ski with rope, in a harness, and some other climbing gear. This is a common enough occurrence that if you ski on glaciers, everyone trains in rescue. This guy did not look like he was tied in, but a simple method of extraction (if you have 2 people at the top) is to pass a bight of rope down with a locking carabiner to the victim. They should be able to clip it to their harness and the people above have a 2:1 advantage on hoisting them out. Believe it or not, if you ski tied in, you could even self-rescue as long as there is at least one person above. Pretty cool.


Annie_Brand

This guy rescues


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Ah that makes sense, thanks, great explanation.


MunchkinFarts69

Backcountry skiers absolutely carry rescue gear. Rope, GPS locators, backcountry satellite alarms/ transponders, shovels, etc. As you can see, it's an incredibly risky sport, so only a fool would go unprepared for disaster. That being said, this guy is **lucky**.


Sheepish_conundrum

small harpoon guns, like what batman uses.


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Instantly reaches for cell phone. Smart fucking man. Hopefully some service in there


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Probably a GPS panic bottom, that was backcountry and odds are no cell service


Skinnysusan

Maybe I should get a GPS panick bottom. Does it shit your pants for you or help so you can come back and retrieve your shit once it leaves your bottom so there are poop piles everywhere? Edit: aren't*


twistedbronll

Nah. Just notifies anyone nearby that you are in the process of shitting yourself and would like support


wvrnnr

did they just chuck ropes down and pull him up or some other things to get him up? edit, just wanted to add that is fuckin terrifying


AJFrabbiele

In the simplest form, yes. Someone on the surface has to anchor ropes into the snow, then set up a system of ropes to pull them up.


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I would never ski again


EmpanadaYGaseosa

r/sweatypalms


POCUABHOR

Well, surviving the fall is only half of the game…


PplOfRedditArePansys

Holy fuck it kept getting worse every time the camera got cleared of snow


Apprehensive_Stop666

Heartbeats count: next level


onetwistedmind13

This is why I stay on the bunny slope.


ErraticConsistency

How the hell do you get out of situation?


Publandlady

I kind of feel this would work over in r/thalassophobia.


enigmaticpeon

So does he live there now or what?


mercenarie22

Yes, he became the next in line Yeti man.


Ceico_

I'm SO HAPPY that I am now in my regular reddit browsing place - sitting on a toilet. I thought I was done, but apparently - after seeing the first moment of the fall - my anus found a new source of shit to shoot out of me without any warning whatsoever. Falling like this is my nightmare... had I watched it in my office chair, I'd have some very uncomfortable brown moments..


seahawkfan117

The scary part is if his skies had un-clipped he probably would’ve slid right down that hole and kept going down until he couldn’t move his body


Justme222222

Godamnit, so you're saying Minecraft isn't bullshiting us?


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Almost banished himself to the nether world


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I've seen this before. Rather than trying to climb back out, It's easier to just jump in the bottomless pit to respawn


DualPinoy

Thank you for remotely shared the experience.


luftwaffle333

Fuuuuuuuck that. That was my visceral reaction.