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Post by jbc12 on Jul 16, 2023 15:51:43 GMT
And, if BC couldn't ride horses too much in TPotD because of the insurance and liability, I bet the show is super duper safe about doing these things. Like, more safe than the average person It is! They can't have famous people dying on the show, lol. They scout it all and they test the routes beforehand. Plus, Ben is self-belaying, so he's in control of the speed of his descent. It's so much safer than the average person adventuring alone. Except skydiving. Not for me because I think I would die from heart failure (I mean, my heart is beating fast right now just contemplating it), but I can enjoy others enjoying it! I understand but, would you be open to watching one of my favourite videos? This is how I'd like to do my 90th bday. Edit: skip ahead to 3:00 for the proper bit.
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Post by mllemass on Jul 16, 2023 18:38:24 GMT
Doing dangerous things - or even things that just look dangerous - has never appealed to me. I know that it’s a thrill for a lot of people, which I just do not understand! Ha!
But for the celebrities on the show, I’m sure that there’s a crew standing by to rescue them if it became necessary. Even in the clips of Benedict alone, someone is filming him so he’s never really alone.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 16, 2023 20:24:10 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Jul 16, 2023 21:17:05 GMT
The most wild/exciting thing I ever did was a few years ago. My lace group took a retreat up in the mountains in April and on our last day we woke up to 4 feet of snow on the ground and it still coming down in buckets. I had to drive out and back down to home in my trusty, all wheel drive, stick shift Subaru, but I’d never tested it like that before!
It was an absolute white out and the only way to remotely begin to see where the road was supposed to be was to look for the tall poles stuck in the side of the road every couple of hundred feet on the flats leading up to the pass which were there for the snowplow drivers (who weren’t out yet), and once climbing the mountain there was the 2 thousand foot drop off over the rocky side to remind me where the edge was. I had to drive over a 11,300 ft mountain pass (about 3500 meters), slipping and sliding and fishtailing the whole way, and with the knowledge that a few years ago an avalanche had swept through the pass, knocking about a dozen cars over the side of the mountain. It was terrifying! They closed the pass right after we got through.
I tell ya, I was shitting bricks the whole way and just wanting to vomit. The snow and ice kept sticking to the windshield so I had the windows down so I could lean out and scrape the snow off, so it was snowing inside the car, too, haha. Thank god for my bestie who rode shotgun and just kept saying “you’re doing great, you’re doing great,” the whole way down. I kept apologizing to her because I was smoking like a fiend just for my anxiety/nerves (back when I used to smoke), so the poor woman was getting fogged out with 2nd hand smoke.
We made it after about 4 hours but once we got on the other side of the pass the road was a sheet of ice on the way down.
What was interesting (and the point of this story), was how GREAT I felt afterwards. It was a scary, terrifying, dangerous thing to do and yet I was elated once I got back to my own home. I had conquered a mountain! I could do *anything,* lol. I’m usually a rather timid kind of person but that experience gave me a boost of confidence like I’d never experienced before. I can still feel it today, years after, when I think about it.
So now I understand why people do thrill seeking things. It’s not just for the adrenaline boost, it’s also for confidence (and bragging rights).
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Post by roverpup on Jul 16, 2023 21:41:15 GMT
I'm not athletic - never have been, so I don't usually head towards danger! Lol!
But Dan and I did, in our younger years, go wilderness camping in Algonquin Park. No "campsites". No toilets. No firewood that you didn't gather yourself. We canoed in, brought a small pup tent. carried our own food supplies and had no support if we got into trouble (cell phones weren't even invented back then).
We heard black bears sniffing our tent at night. We heard wolves. And had to portage around beaver dams.
It was an adventure and it had its thrills. It also had its problems and we had to cut it short. The weather was horrible - constant rain all day and night for 3 days. Some of the food we brought spoiled and we got sick.
We got to a lake and needed to cross it to head home and the wind became so strong we couldn't cross. We were waiting anxiously for the weather to break so we could head across and it was absolutely tingling when we realised the time was upon us and we had to break camp and shove off right away!
A real challenge has great rewards when completed and a valuable learning experience if you fail successfully.
Now, because of age both of us are much more careful. But still we went caving in Iceland and that was a real challenge being in our 60s. Thrilling though!
Dan's a bit more adventurous than me. He even went wilderness camping with some pals in his late fifties and they managed to shoot some rapids and go over a waterfall! Dan lost all his clothes, except what he had on his back and the group had to scale a large muddy bank and dry everything out (remaining clothes, sleeping bags, etc) over a huge campfire all night long. It was late fall in the north so there was heavy frost once the sun went down.
Now there's adventure! But he loved it!
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Post by mllemass on Jul 16, 2023 23:30:25 GMT
I’ve done my share of scary driving through bad weather on bad roads, but they aren’t the kinds of thrills I would seek out!
The flight back home from Cancun years ago was by far the scariest experience I’ve ever had. The flight had just begun, and the pilot announced that it would be a smooth flight all the way to Toronto. The flight attendants had started to go around with the drinks cart, and we were all relaxed. The remove seatbelt sign went on. It was a relief from the turbulence we had experienced on the flight to Cancun a week earlier.
Suddenly, the plane dropped a bit. Ok, no problem. Everything continued as before, and my friend and I were chatting about the vacation we’d had. And then the plane dropped even more - and continued dropping. This wasn’t Ok! The flight attendants looked alarmed. It was night time, so there was nothing to see out the window. It occurred to me that I was being lifted off my seat and I quickly put on my seatbelt. I remember hearing the clicking of everyone else putting on their seatbelts, and then the fasten seatbelt sign went on. The flight attendants who were in the aisles had dropped to a crouching position, hanging on to the armrests of the seats. Then they rushed to their own seats and buckled in. There were no announcements made. There were sounds of people panicking and stuff in the overhead compartments being tousled. We thought we were dropping out of the sky!
And then the dropping stopped and everything was normal again. All of that had happened in less than a minute, but it felt like a lifetime. The pilot finally announced what had happened. He said “Sorry about that, folks! You’re probably wondering what just happened back there!” He explained that they have a device that alerts them if there’s another plane in their airspace. He said that ever since a mid-air collision between two planes a few years earlier, all planes had to have this device. So even though the pilot didn’t see any other planes out there, they were obligated to drop their altitude a certain number of feet - and that’s what they did. Then he said “It’s a good thing we did that, because another plane just passed us, a hundred feet above.” Ahhh! So if all planes had this device now, how could such a close call have happened? The pilot said that there are plenty of countries that choose not to follow the safety procedures that the rest of world does.
The pilot then said that anyone who was interested in seeing the device or learning more about it could go up to the cockpit to chat with him. Obviously, this was before 9/11 when that type of thing was allowed. My friend went up, but I refused to remove my seat belt until we had landed safe and sound.
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Post by queenzod on Jul 16, 2023 23:49:40 GMT
I hate plane flights for this very reason! If you’re going to fall out of the sky and die there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it. Do you go down screaming or just shut your mouth and die quietly? Ergh! 🤢
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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 17, 2023 1:22:28 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Jul 17, 2023 1:24:20 GMT
I’m watching it now and it’s very exciting. After, I’ll watch it again and post all the good bits. 👍🏼
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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 17, 2023 1:55:52 GMT
That channel is more ads than program.
And, I have to refresh the page often.
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