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Used to go for week long hiking trips to Himalayas once a year when I was in India. I don't know technical climbing. So I prefer guided hikes albeit in some steep terrains which sometimes are a bit risky, especially when coming down.
Decided to do Stok Kangri hike - the highest non technical hike in India. After 4 days of walking, during the summit night, we start at 8 PM and have to reach summit(at 6070 metres) by 4 or 5 in the morning. None of us could reach it as we were all exhausted and few got mountain sickness too. When returning back, my legs literally gave away. I felt so weak. It was night time and the same type or slopes I had walked over earlier looked damn scary to me. It's funny how your state of mind makes even the things you normally do as scary.
I just sat down at the top of the slope for 30 minutes. Then one of the guides offered his shoulders and asked me to hold them when walking down. I have done many hikes in the UK after coming here. But I would never forget that fear I had that night. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"The fab popularity ladder
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You'll get there, everyone knows fab is a very welcoming place where people lift each other up and supports them in their desperate bids for one wank of fame. "
It actually is and thank you.  |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
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"Used to go for week long hiking trips to Himalayas once a year when I was in India. I don't know technical climbing. So I prefer guided hikes albeit in some steep terrains which sometimes are a bit risky, especially when coming down.
Decided to do Stok Kangri hike - the highest non technical hike in India. After 4 days of walking, during the summit night, we start at 8 PM and have to reach summit(at 6070 metres) by 4 or 5 in the morning. None of us could reach it as we were all exhausted and few got mountain sickness too. When returning back, my legs literally gave away. I felt so weak. It was night time and the same type or slopes I had walked over earlier looked damn scary to me. It's funny how your state of mind makes even the things you normally do as scary.
I just sat down at the top of the slope for 30 minutes. Then one of the guides offered his shoulders and asked me to hold them when walking down. I have done many hikes in the UK after coming here. But I would never forget that fear I had that night."
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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I used to be really scared of heights until about 5 years ago when I cliff jumped at Ricks Cafe in Negril. It was horrible I can feel my stomach turning and cold sweat just remembering the first jump but I had to do it. I jumped about 20 times that day and now fine with heights |
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Loads, it's my hobby.
My most scared was on a relatively easy winter route in Scotland, it was fairly late in the season and had been a beautiful day. Much of the route was bullet hard ice in the shade but as with many Scottish routes the top 30 meters or so was easy angled snow. Unfortunately this had been in the sun all day and was soft and slushy. At the top the snow had formed a cornice - a kind of overhanging wave shape. I was stood with my head and shoulders above this, able to watch skiers in the distance come off the lift and ski away but every time I tried to move the snow would start to slide under me. My last bit of protection(where the rope is connected to an anchor) was good, but about 15 meters below, meaning a fall would be a minimum of 30 metres. I'm not sure how I got off there. I remember pushing both my axes elbow deep into the snow and part pulling on them, part swimming and part crawling.
There had been a fatality on the mountain near us the day before and we'd had a number of calls and messages checking on us as this had hit the national news (he actually died when the RAF crew winching him cut his ropes and he fell). This had made both my partner and I very nervous that day already so it probably wasn't as bad as it felt but I still rate stepping off that bit of rock where my last piece of safety was to head up 15 meters of empty slushy snow as the bravest thing I've ever done - not that I had much choice else I'd still be there
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
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On holiday many years ago to Hastings with my family, we all decided to climb up the cliff to the cave at the top.
I got half way up and had an attack of vertigo.
So, there was me, flat against the cliff face, starfished, crying and begging my husband for help, as the children laughed at me from the top.
I had to shuffle down on my bum until I could open my eyes properly.
I decided I could see the cave perfectly well through the video camera view finder, thank you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Used to go for week long hiking trips to Himalayas once a year when I was in India. I don't know technical climbing. So I prefer guided hikes albeit in some steep terrains which sometimes are a bit risky, especially when coming down.
Decided to do Stok Kangri hike - the highest non technical hike in India. After 4 days of walking, during the summit night, we start at 8 PM and have to reach summit(at 6070 metres) by 4 or 5 in the morning. None of us could reach it as we were all exhausted and few got mountain sickness too. When returning back, my legs literally gave away. I felt so weak. It was night time and the same type or slopes I had walked over earlier looked damn scary to me. It's funny how your state of mind makes even the things you normally do as scary.
I just sat down at the top of the slope for 30 minutes. Then one of the guides offered his shoulders and asked me to hold them when walking down. I have done many hikes in the UK after coming here. But I would never forget that fear I had that night."
Darkness, exhaustion, long periods of heightened awareness all take a massive psychological toll. I spend a lot of time doing easy stuff at night, in bad weather or just places I'm not familiar to try and make that feeling easier to deal with.
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