what is the biggest risk you have ever taken?

[happyninja42]

I went rock climbing at night, without any safety equipment, and I was high when I did it. Me and one other guy with a handheld flashlight would shine it where the other needed to jump, and then move forward. We did that for a while, including jumping a gap of a few feet over a lethal drop of a few hundred feet.

Considering the possible outcomes, and how just about all of them ended with a fatal result, I would say that's the most dangerous thing I've done.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Freeclimbed a 5.11c once, that was probably the riskiest, and stupidest thing I've ever done.

I need context, was this an onsight, and what was your redpoint at the time? Stupid in any case, but it's good to know just how stupid.

The biggest one I can think of is climbing related too. One of my early times climbing outdoors while I was still terrified of lead climbing, we misread the route map and instead of the 11a climb that I expected I got on a 12b route that was still being bolted. That's not so bad on its own, but the first hold that I grabbed onto ripped off in my hands, and a good number of the holds the rest of the way up were pretty crumbly. For some inexplicable reason I decided to climb it the four bolts required to discover there wasn't a 5th bolt. As much as I probably shouldn't have climbed it, it did wonders for my fear of lead climbing.

Onsight, but I did get a few tips before going up from a buddy for the cruxes that had headed it previously on rope, so it wasn't a real flash. This was over a decade ago at Sandrock. Don't know if you've ever been there. Name of the route was Dreamscape. It has a .12 ending as well, but the hardest thing I had ever roped (on sport, not trad) at that point was a 5.12b, so I wasn't about to try that.

Well damn, I was banking on it having been a frequently climbed route for you. What compelled you to do this? Looking at the huck near the top of the route I would almost rather climb back down at that point

 

[Jux]

Freeclimbed a 5.11c once, that was probably the riskiest, and stupidest thing I've ever done.

I need context, was this an onsight, and what was your redpoint at the time? Stupid in any case, but it's good to know just how stupid.

The biggest one I can think of is climbing related too. One of my early times climbing outdoors while I was still terrified of lead climbing, we misread the route map and instead of the 11a climb that I expected I got on a 12b route that was still being bolted. That's not so bad on its own, but the first hold that I grabbed onto ripped off in my hands, and a good number of the holds the rest of the way up were pretty crumbly. For some inexplicable reason I decided to climb it the four bolts required to discover there wasn't a 5th bolt. As much as I probably shouldn't have climbed it, it did wonders for my fear of lead climbing.

Onsight, but I did get a few tips before going up from a buddy for the cruxes that had headed it previously on rope, so it wasn't a real flash. This was over a decade ago at Sandrock. Don't know if you've ever been there. Name of the route was Dreamscape. It has a .12 ending as well, but the hardest thing I had ever roped (on sport, not trad) at that point was a 5.12b, so I wasn't about to try that.

Well damn, I was banking on it having been a frequently climbed route for you. What compelled you to do this? Looking at the huck near the top of the route I would almost rather climb back down at that point

I had considered climbing back down a few times. Not really sure why I did it, I'll just chalk that up to being young and stupid. I've climbed that route a lot since then, but always on rope.

 

[Zannah]

Leaving home to move in with my fiance. Despite, you know... serious threads of violence from my family.

 

[sageoftruth]

Huh. I haven't got much. I once decided to make a 1.5 hour drive home from Cape Cod, despite having a headache. Not really a big deal until we take into account that I have history of seizures.