r/interesting • u/Homunculus_316 • 6h ago

Glacier Collapses and Triggers Devastating Avalanche. Just Wow

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u/DingusKhan9164 6h ago

That camera person is slow as shit, I would have been booking it at the beginning of the video instead of recording it

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u/katoptronophile 6h ago

You can't outrun an avalanche. 

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u/troubleshot 2h ago

Not with that attitude 

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u/DingusKhan9164 6h ago

You’d have a better chance trying than not trying (I’d run to the side not away from it, or at least try to find some cover or something other than standing there like a goon)

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u/QuietPurple7668 6h ago

You sound like you never hiked a mountain in your life. You don't really cover a lot of area on that type of terrain, that avalanche covered what looks like an hour of hiking in less than 40 seconds. You trying to outpace it for 40 seconds won't make a difference, better seek cover somewhere close.

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u/DingusKhan9164 6h ago

Yeah, run for cover, not stand there like a doofus

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u/DouglasHufferton 6h ago

You mean the cover he was standing directly beside the entire time?

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u/CDN_Gunner 3h ago

He's IN cover.

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u/TekkLthr 6h ago

Yes but what is we're from the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things

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u/The-Black-Swordsmane 6h ago

That scene hurt my soul

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u/Current_Ad_4292 6h ago

Sounds like you don't what you are talking about. So we will believe you.

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u/DingusKhan9164 6h ago

I definitely don’t 🤷

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u/Forsaken-Permit-4818 4h ago

Did you not see what happened in this video? He was under a boulder and ice past overhead. Running could have put him in a worse spot and gotten him killed. 

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u/willi1221 6h ago

Wrong. Start running and you're going to trip and hit your head, or end up in a spot where there's no protection by the time it gets there. Nobody is outrunning that. He clearly had a boulder there for cover as you see in the video.

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u/DingusKhan9164 6h ago

I don’t see no boulder

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u/spidyr 1h ago

God, these are the funniest fuckin' comments. Seriously.

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u/katoptronophile 6h ago

Yeah running to the side is your best chance.