A wave of nausea wells up from your gut and you vomit your breakfast in a long arc over the ledge. You manage a short spasmodic gasp, then another. You try to breathe, but the force of the fall has compressed your diaphragm, pushing the air out of your lungs.
The valley is still a hundred feet below. You plummet 30 feet-the equivalent of a three-story building-in 1.4 seconds, the time it takes to say, “How are you this morning?”Ĭrack! Your right leg strikes a projection from the wall and you tumble another 20 feet before landing on a granite ledge. What were you thinking? You might ask yourself that, but it’s too late. You’ve been free-soloing-climbing without a rope or a partner to catch your fall. Your arms fly outward as if to grab something, but there is nothing to grab. Within a few hundredths of a second of buttering off the hold, your “startle reflex” kicks in. Falling to Your Death (Alex Emanuel Koch/ Shutterstock) We bring you the science behind 10 of the most terrifying, laughable, painful, and worst ways to die outside. Risk is a large part of what attracts us to adventure-but it’s worth taking a look at how it can all go wrong.
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