Man nearly falls to death on Aiguille du Midi Arete, Chamonix Mont Blanc

this section is too dangerous, u should not talk and distract him in the frist place.😑

damn crampons

that was close man

You almost had a viral video 🙃

Get everywhere scousers

Damn bro, damn

I feel sick watching this, legs turn to water 😮

Right could be survived with broken bones. Left certain death.

Ski double black diamond runs…some you fall you don’t stop until you slam into a rock or tree or hit the bottom….

If he leaned back he woulda died.

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French here

Why do people rope together like that?

Remember do not panic, and think clearly, this looks funny at first goance but it was just a serious fall that could actually lead to death

Its terrifying just watching the video.

This may happen if you follow blindly tracies.
I would have made my own trace, just 50 cm to the right to be on the safe side - relatively.
To slip on the left side = death, falling down to Chamonix.
To slip to the right = gliding down about 100 m - 40 degrees, probably no injuries.
I have done the Vallée Blanche five times.
Once we had to descend from the cable car in this conditions.
We opted to go down more on the right side.
Some 10, 15 years ago a woman slipped to the left side. She fell about 800 m.😢

I'm always perplexed that relatively so many people risk their lives on deadly mountains...

No less a mountaineer than Greg Mortimer (first ascent Everest Great Couloir direct, no O2, 1984) snagged a crampon on the opposite pant leg descending the couloir and saved his life with a self arrest. A bit different in the Death Zone after 16 hours of straight climbing, but it happens to the best. Ridicule unnecessary

No rope ?

That was closer than you may think...

A giudicare da quello che si vede dimostra totale incompetenza cominciando dal fatto che per frenare la caduta devi usare la becca e non la paletta della picozza!!!!! Per il resto lasciamo perdere

6 inches to a side and he would have been gone...

Small tip, always your hold ice axe with the beak facing backwards to be able to dig it in the snow when falling

He is very lucky and very untrained...just focus man. Try to learn from your mistakes.

1 second no fokus and u could die

My gosh if that pick didn’t stick the momentum woulda had him tumbling into mince meat…

😂😂😂

Clickbait trash

How is there not a safety line in that section?

E' in questo modo pericoloso che sulle nostre montagne muore tanta gente...Questo è un pazzo

....avec ski batons et chaussures de ski.......
wow

The snow is pretty soft and this part isn't as dangerous as it looks on camera

My man got the oogidi boogidi di slip

That’s what your ice axe is for ..

I am sure people died there before. Looks dangerous passage, one small slip and you are a goner.

I'm not sure why anyone would stop, chat, and relax on a route like that. Everything about this looks incredibly dangerous.

There’s some places on earth god never intended us humans to go.

NOPE!!!

why not just go super mario 64 mode in the panguin cave

When I was a kid, my daily route to school was very similar to this. And I didn't have all this gear, just slippers and a sweater and a backpack with a lunch box.

perfect example of how to arrest yourself and why you need experience before attempting such mountains

Holding his axe the wrong way round almost prevented him from being able to self arrest

Good reaction though

I was there a long time ago, it is really amazing. I did it in summer on a super clear day. Once you get to the end of the ridge you walk across the vallée blanche all the way to Italy with the Mont Blanc to your right and then come back with the cable car. The day we were there a bunch of tourist had ventured on the ridge with no equipment and regular shoes, after about 20 or 30 meters they had stopped and realised they were in terrible danger and didn't dare walking back. We had to walk them back one by one and nobody was hurt. Anybody can go there and nobody controlled anything. You just take the telepheric to the Pic du Midi from Chamonix and you get off near the edge of the ridge. On the left the ridge goes all the way down to Chamonix it is really very very steep and and far. The other side stops after a few hundred meters on the vallée Blanche. I will never forget that day.

If he had fallen screen right and unable to stop the fall , that would have been unpleasant but not so bad.
Screen left however , it would have been possibly fatal, as it'a becomes steep very fast, and it's rocky.
There is excellent coverage of this area on Google maps.

have to be mentally ill to put yourself in that situation to begin with

there are 2 things everyone who ventures out in the mountains MUST know. crevasse rescue and self arrest

He obviously has much experience. Look at how calm and decisive he acts since he slipped. He punched the hell out of that snowy slope to manage to get a grip.

Where is my son.. He should see how my way to school was before he starts whining of some stupid video games and TV series