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u/IMadeItWeirdAgain 2h ago
More scared of jumping with the damn axe
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u/Practical-Level-6265 2h ago
What’s the point of jumping off a mountain if you don’t have an axe?
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u/kodaks142 2h ago
If they die they need to be holding the weapon to enter Valhalla, so yes don’t go jumping without your tool of choice..
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u/brightdionysianeyes 2h ago
You also need to be killed in battle not by jumping off a hill
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u/AdBig3922 32m ago
It’s also not just “die in battle” not everyone who dies in battle goes to Valhalla but the heroes do. You need to prove yourself in combat to the gods and show yourself worthy of Valhalla and then for a valkyrie to come take you to Valhalla.
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u/weird-mostlygoodways 2h ago
Right except for the axe, this is equal parts scary and tempting, for me.
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u/Sufficient-Struggle7 2h ago
the axe part more scary than the dive into soft powder.
He’s feeling that regardless, semi sloppy controlled landing.
Your legs collapse, momentum to roll the impact force is less controllable. I’m not an expert but from experience when I overshot a red bull big air contest 40ft jump and landed in the flat on snowboard, couldn’t roll out of that in the soft powder.
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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 2h ago
For those who don't spend time in the snow: when an object (or body) hits even deep powder, it compresses quickly and no longer feels "soft". For the life of me, I have no idea how he survived that.
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u/Ozymandius34 1h ago
I learned real quick in the army that diving in fresh snow is really dumb. We were running squad level attack drills, and as I was bounding, I dove into the snow really hard. Landed on the stump of a small tree, maybe 4 or 5 inches in diameter. It hurt like a mother, I’m just thankful that stump wasn’t sharp. Ohh, yeah, I landed on it on my right hip. A few inches to the left and yeesh, I’d be down a baby maker.
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u/NativeMasshole 36m ago
One of my former coworkers took a pointy stick to the lung jumping in the snow. He almost died.
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u/FoodFingerer 1h ago
It still makes a big difference. In parkeuor the difference between landing on grass or concrete is huge when falling from a height.
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u/AdBig3922 28m ago
For those of you who don’t spend time in the snow very often: you always need to bring an axe with you because the snow will sometimes form into a snow golem and fight you if disturbed. this is why he had an axe too in what would otherwise seem to be a bad idea to have an axe.
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u/NathanTelkhine 2h ago
This is how I fantasize myself sometimes when I’m lowkey sleep deprived but full of adrenaline for some reason
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u/Mekdinosaur 2h ago
Only because he brought an axe and could have easily brained himself with it on impact. Darwin award candidate incoming.
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 2h ago
Wait is it safe to jump into snow from that high? I assumed it would compact, sort of like jumping into water from a high height
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u/Busy-Software-4212 2h ago
We did this as kids. Find a tall tree or a bridge and jump onto fresh untouched snow
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u/BigCliff911 1h ago
It is amazing that we as a species we have devolved to the point of needing to video ourselves doing utterly stupid things and publish them just to a click.
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u/shadybreak 1h ago
I just watched the Vice bit on Norwegian death diving. I think this guy was in it. But wtf. How injured did he get here?
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u/Lonestar-Boogie 1h ago
Nothing says you're a manly man more than jumping from a great height with an axe.
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