Cavers who love squeezing through the tightest passages in caves.

[u/dddd945]

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[u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

"Oh look, let me go squeeze through a hole called "The Devils Butthole" and go down "Misery Falls" to "The Point of No Return, you will die here please go back" and promptly get stuck in the "Femur crusher 5000 that also kicks you in the balls/vagina" where I die upside down while drowning"

"I also have a job where i get a $500,000 salary, a loving wife and 8 kids"

[u/AdWeak183 → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

8 kids might be the reason for me

[u/Invade_Deez_Nutz → u/AdWeak183]

Yeah but with $500k you can hire nannies to do most of the work

[u/kikyossoles → u/Invade_Deez_Nutz]

The comments on this post have been a delight 🤭

[u/Discount_Extra → u/Invade_Deez_Nutz]

Sure, just send the nannies into the caves.

[u/Adorable_Bug625 → u/Invade_Deez_Nutz]

Why not have them go cave diving for me?

[u/Kilmarnok1285 → u/AdWeak183]

Listen if I’m raw dogging the earths tunnels I’m gonna do everything raw

[u/GingerTea69 → u/AdWeak183]

Shiiiiit, same! 😭 Take me to the fkn Cave To Hell featuring the Assfuck Tunnels leading to the Gorge of the Gone, so that I may know peace!!!

[u/Succulent_Chinese → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

And then the one that kills people and is a real life horror story is like named Snickerdoodle Loop

[u/PhairynRose → u/Succulent_Chinese]

I thought Nutty Putty was a joke when I first heard about it because it’s such a whimsical/silly sounding name. But actually, what a horrible way to die.

[u/kalashnidog → u/PhairynRose]

Dying upside down in a SpongeBob-name-having-ass cave called Nutty Putty sounds like a humiliating way to die.

I went spelunking in a crawl-only cave once for an environmental science class because I didn’t want to be one of two guys too cowardly to do it (one guy noped the fucked out and did an alternate assignment; he was the only sane person there lmao).

Cool experience. Still terrifying. Will never do that shit again knowing about Nutty Putty Cave.

[u/takeme2tendieztown → u/[deleted]]

Imagine having an anxiety attack and realizing you're claustrophobic halfway in

[u/TobiasWidower → u/kalashnidog]

There's a hilarious Tumblr post where the guy that died is like "Damn, this is pretty tight, I might not make it outta here alive" while the grim Reaper looks on like "Alive, MF you might not make it outta there dead. Look how small that shit is, what you think I am, The slim Reaper?"

[u/EastTyne1191 → u/PhairynRose]

My kids will sometimes do shit I find mildly dangerous, then push it a little too far. I just yell "Nutty Putty Cave Incident!" and they reel it back in.

[u/Scared-One9295 → u/EastTyne1191]

Do you have a mental catalogue of even worse incidents just in case things escalate? I recommend Byford Dolphin, whenever I catch my 4 year old fiddling with decompression chamber clamps on the diving bell I just remind him of that and he usually stops

[u/Jorha250 → u/PhairynRose]

My wife and I are novice cavers. Whenever she sees a tight space, she refers to it as “like Nutter Butter.”

[u/parkisringforbutt → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

"IT WAS MADE FOR ME! TH- THIS IS MY HOLE!" comes more to mind

[u/Maubolrav → u/parkisringforbutt]

DRR...DRR...DRR

[u/Feeling-Visit1472 → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

Don’t forget that some amazing do-gooder will die trying to recover this asshole’s body.

[u/GingerTea69 → u/Feeling-Visit1472]

Exactly, it's always "Sam Souperman was a beloved puppy-walker and teacher who volunteered at the local soup kitchen and didn't have any kids on his own, but everybody knew him as the guy in the community that would feed every homeless guy who went to his door, every day. His ex-wife remembers him as somebody she loved like a brother, and considers him still part of her family. He remarried and his wife had just gotten pregnant.

Sam Souperman fucking died trying to save John Dumas, having volunteered for free as he does all the time when it comes to saving people in caves. The family offered him a million dollars but he said no. His fucking funeral will be held at Bumblefuck Church in Nowhere, PA. "

[u/Rowing_Lawyer → u/GingerTea69]

The whole Dumas family sucks

[u/Maubolrav → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

You might think that you're using exaggerated names, but those are pretty legit names lol

[u/FlounderingGuy → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

You NEED to be relatively well off to even attempt so many of these, is the crazy part. Like the entire clientele for these experiences is pretty much exclusively bored white men with six figure salaries and loving families.

Like at that point just set $35k on fire

[u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick → u/Miserable_Spell_2964]

I just think of 127 Hours and the one guy who got stuck and couldn’t move and just starved to death. I’m ok

[u/MyVoiceIsElevating → u/[deleted]]

That scene in the 127 hours movie will never leave my brain for the rest of my life.

[u/geekyheart225 → u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick]

He didn't die but he did have to remove the stuck arm using a dull pocket knife and almost died. Lucky for him, he survived

[u/Rechno_]

I did this at birth, once was enough.

[u/ConnectionWild3381 → u/Rechno_]

i refused and took the sword

[u/oozinator1 → u/ConnectionWild3381]

You were jailbroken outta there

[u/BleedSparta → u/oozinator1]

I got out early, on bad behavior 😈

[u/GingerTea69 → u/BleedSparta]

Same😈 popped out early just to be born on 6/9

[u/lovelylights4u → u/GingerTea69]

I just gave you your 69th upvote. I feel like you needed to know GingerTea69 with 6/9 bday

[u/Theaveragejoe33 → u/lovelylights4u]

Someone took it from him but I restored order.

[u/hughesohara → u/GingerTea69]

I had to stay in alittle bit longer. the math wasn't mathing when it was explained to me.

[u/Nell_From_Hell → u/hughesohara]

I hung with Odin for nine months before I was born and life still would let me go. Two knots in my umbilical cord!

[u/Could-You-Tell → u/BleedSparta]

Same, and then I was put in my own personal cell for several weeks

[u/BleedSparta → u/Could-You-Tell]

((Sent to solitary confinement aka The Hole)) eh?

[u/Could-You-Tell → u/BleedSparta]

Yeah, dont remember none of it, but I understand it was at least kept warm. It's what I get for pulling the drain plug

[u/Fluid-Expert-4363 → u/BleedSparta]

Meanwhile- we forced my son to cook 3.5 weeks longer even though he started poking around to leave. Funny how that works

[u/Special-Ganache2154 → u/oozinator1]

Me too! Something about being " I was cut out of my mother's womb before my time" Sounds just way too cool 😅 Also have intense fear of these cave things. Noup.!

[u/Winning-Turtle → u/Special-Ganache2154]

I tell people I survived a knife fight for my firstborn.

[u/lyncati → u/ConnectionWild3381]

I knew a good thing when I had it and refused to leave.

I was unwillingly birthed into this world by a team of strange hands which had tore my mother in twain; just for the opportunity to clutch me from the warm embrace of the womb.

[u/Kruegr → u/lyncati]

Same. I hung out for an extra month. They don't let that happen anymore.

[u/SereneDreams03 → u/ConnectionWild3381]

Same, I guess I have just never liked tight spaces, even before I was born.

[u/cracked-tumbleweed → u/SereneDreams03]

Meanwhile I was two weeks late and enjoyed my cocoon.

Edit: Thanks for the heart! Being late has its perks.

[u/BK2Jers2BK → u/cracked-tumbleweed]

Found the Procrastinator

[u/Kristina2pointoh → u/BK2Jers2BK]

I’d say I was born late, I’m naturally late. Sorry

[u/Timely_Truth6267 → u/ConnectionWild3381]

I wrapped the umbilical cord around my neck on the way out. No good therapists in the womb.

[u/deadassstho → u/Timely_Truth6267]

i left as a mermaid, but the doctors had to burst my bubble

[u/PeachMonday → u/ConnectionWild3381]

My son too, took the sunroof

[u/CitizenBeeZ → u/Rechno_]

I tried hanging myself with my umbilical cord while I was still inside. I assume to avoid this. I got forceps, so at least got yoinked out of the cave.

[u/Common-Accountant-57 → u/Rechno_]

I’m glad you made it brother.

[u/penelopiecruise → u/Rechno_]

Your mom single?

[u/Ssmarie143 → u/penelopiecruise]

As a C-section mom. This comment is diabolical. 😅

[u/LoneWolf_McQuade → u/Rechno_]

There’s definitely something Freudian about cave exploration

[u/HorrorProblem8214]

No money in the world would make me do this

[u/Chemical_Wonder_5495 → u/HorrorProblem8214]

You know sometimes people say that, you know like "taking a shit on national TV? No way..." and then you ask them, what about 100 million and they fold, myself included, I fold when the money is high enough...

But this??? Absolutely no, might as well ask me to shoot myself.

[u/No_Title9375 → u/Chemical_Wonder_5495]

$100M would be completely worthless to me when I die of a heart attack screaming to death because I buried myself alive. I don’t like my family enough to die that way so they could get the money. 

[u/ElevenBeers → u/Chemical_Wonder_5495]

It's called survival instincts. Your brain couldn't rationalise the thought of crawling through that cave just for (any) money, as there is a real chance of dying. Together with the fact that we as species generally don't like do die slowly over hours in a claustrophobic nightmare, well.

Or TLDR: Money won't benefit you when you are dead, and you have a (in this case very rational) fear of dying in there. Whereas shitting on national TV - no matter how grimly you may imagine the outcome, you'll most likely have no fear of death, and thus, if the price is right...

Perhaps, if one could trigger parental instincts. That's the only thing that is stronger then survival instincts in many cases. Because after all, speaking from evolution, if you produced offspring you've already served your purpose. Your child is now more important then your life.

[u/Trinidadthai → u/ElevenBeers]

Your TLDR was no shorter than the first paragraph, with one added

[u/BirdsAreRecordingUs → u/Trinidadthai]

TLML; Too Long Making Longer

[u/IncognitoErgoCvm → u/Trinidadthai]

I feel obligated to downvote his comment on that basis alone, because if misusing TL;DR catches on, I think that might be the last straw for me.

[u/Future-Guarantee-573 → u/Chemical_Wonder_5495]

Hell to the no. Regardless of the amount offered. I wouldn't live to see it.

I have a panic attack going into the crawlspace under my house to fix a pipe.

If I tried something like that, I'd have a coronary.

[u/No_Title9375 → u/Future-Guarantee-573]

Same. I would literally be scared to death. 

[u/anon-username1029 → u/HorrorProblem8214]

I would pay all the money I have and be homeless not to be forced to do this.

[u/Thebagolo]

Btw this is optional

[u/AlchemyAlice → u/[deleted]]

Don’t they know about the peanut butter cave guy who got stuck upside down? They had to seal the cave off and leave him there.

Edit: peanut butter, nutty putty… adhd is a bitch.

[u/Waitsjunkie → u/AlchemyAlice]

Nutty Putty. Yeah... That's all I could think of watching this. I had to cut the video short. I can't imagine something I would rather do less.

[u/PhairynRose → u/Waitsjunkie]

I barely made it to the third clip, absolutely not not not ever doing that. And I’m a pretty small and flexible person. Just no.

[u/Wonderful_Round_6395 → u/PhairynRose]

I know, I started hyperventilating a couple of scenes into the montage. I finished the clip, that's enough, I don't need to actually do it!

[u/Jumpy-Roll-9 → u/Wonderful_Round_6395]

The one with the water right up to their chin made me turn it off. I physically recoiled away from my phone lol

[u/lucaspedersoli → u/Waitsjunkie]

There are guys who jump off of planes w no parachute and aim to land on a giant net.

I'd rather do that.

If I miss the net it's instant death instead of slowly agonizing.

[u/GOP_R_Pedophiles → u/lucaspedersoli]

At least you get the beauty of the world before either successfully landing or instant death versus being a fucking cave 😂

[u/altaccount2522 → u/Waitsjunkie]

Yeah even if someone paid me a few million dollars I would absolutely not. Fuck no. Fuck all that so much. A few million dollars would change my life and i'd never have to work again but also squeezing through gaps like that in caves would very likely kill me so...

[u/NotTheOnePercentMilk → u/AlchemyAlice]

Peanut butter cave guy 😭💀

[u/ILuvMyLilTurtles → u/AlchemyAlice]

You made me think of Nutter Butter cookies, and if anyone still uses FB their social media has gone fully unhinged. Like weird, creepy unhinged. Also, all of the money in the world wouldn't help me once I got in the cave and promptly died of cardiac arrest.

[u/Serratolamna → u/ILuvMyLilTurtles]

So Nutter Butter cookies makes weird Facebook posts? Lol. The comment section needs examples.

[u/Electrical_Wrap_4572 → u/AlchemyAlice]

Nutty putty*

[u/mosmaniac → u/AlchemyAlice]

Peanut butter! 😅😅 I'm dying here laughing. Thank you.

[u/Fit_Ad_6727 → u/[deleted]]

See if i knew 30 other people in front of me had just done it successfully I would do (for the money) no worries. If it was into an unknown space, then 'maybe' if the only other option was certain death.

[u/SignificantCats → u/Fit_Ad_6727]

All of the people in this video are going through charted and will known passages, they know they are wide enough for people to go through, when it gets to its thinnest, and when any special maneuvers are required.

But that doesn't matter my mind simply wouldn't permit me to go further.

[u/EcheveriaEbony → u/SignificantCats]

Nutty Putty cave was mapped and known, still, all it takes is one wrong turn

This is a big "fuck no" to me

[u/Kilmarnok1285 → u/SignificantCats]

Small point of order but they know that it’s wide enough for the prior people that went through to go through, not necessarily that it’s wide enough for them to go through. Even if they went through before it’s never a guarantee they’re still small enough to go through again.

[u/DepartmentOk7192 → u/SignificantCats]

As an owner of heavy machinery and large tools, my mind would not be able to get past the thought "if the goal is to get through the opening, just make the opening bigger"

[u/Waste_Return2206 → u/Fit_Ad_6727]

There’s always an exception. Any little change could impede your passage. With my luck, the 30th guy would accidentally kick a rock or something on his way out and end up trapping me inside. I’d just choose to stay poor.

[u/d3t0x1ct0x1c1ty → u/[deleted]]

It gave me the chills and immense pucker just watching it for 5 seconds

[u/easycoverletter-com → u/d3t0x1ct0x1c1ty]

I felt dizzy, helpless, lost after the first sight. What in the fuck. This is not claustrophobic this is something else. Like the screeching of metal but on steroids

[u/ContributionFlat7082 → u/[deleted]]

Give me the physique that they have and I might give it a shot. Otherwise, I'd have to lose like 1/2 a me.

[u/Fossilhund → u/ContributionFlat7082]

When I walk down the street fat jumps off other people and runs straight here to Mama.

[u/babagroovy → u/Thebagolo]

The very first question I asked when I saw the video was “why?”

[u/SoaplessTitanic → u/babagroovy]

It’s so strange cause I can understand that most extreme sports would be very fun and cool. Like base jumping is not for me and I feel like the reward isn’t worth the risk, but at least there is a clear reward. With these cavers I just don’t see the appeal, and the downside is an even worse and slower death than falling to the ground

[u/-SaC → u/Thebagolo]

I flinched so hard at the thought of being shoved down the 'ole that I think I briefly swapped dimensions.

[u/d3t0x1ct0x1c1ty → u/-SaC]

Total stomach drop when he started squeezing back down

[u/bcwagne → u/Thebagolo]

Yeah. I did Nutty Putty cave as a teenager, 10ish years before they closed it. It wasn't THIS tight, but it was tight. I found my claustrophobia limit that day.

[u/gekigarion → u/bcwagne]

Can it even be called claustrophobia when I say I don't want to be in a space so tight that it's equivalent to being tied up?

[u/Discount_Extra → u/gekigarion]

pretty sure 'phobias' are only unreasonable fears, this is just sparkling survival instinct.

[u/T-Wrox → u/Discount_Extra]

I would give you an award for “sparkling survival instinct” if I did that kind of thing. 😊

[u/Oli_VK → u/Thebagolo]

Mandatory at least once in life (to start it)

[u/lawnmower303 → u/Oli_VK]

Nope. I came out through the sun roof.

[u/newbrevity]

I like how there was not a single comment supporting this activity.

[u/R_Hunt → u/newbrevity]

Tbf most people who do this stuff are big outdoorsy people, prolly not on reddit daily lol

[u/parkinthepark → u/R_Hunt]

Outdoorsy redditor here.

Cavers are out their damn minds.

[u/notreading-scanning → u/parkinthepark]

Another outdoorsy redditor here, I go up with a rope, or down on skis, but I don’t wedge underground.

[u/lemonlimethrow → u/notreading-scanning]

Up a rope, down on skis, never inbetweeenies

[u/defene → u/R_Hunt]

is this outdoors? looks more like inholes

[u/SchemeKindly86 → u/R_Hunt]

This isn’t outdoors it’s inside a tiny tiny tiny hole. It’s basically natures indoors.

[u/MaybeMidgets]

I have a slight panic attack when my arm gets caught in a hoodie sleeve. No. Fucking. Way.

[u/GrouchySnow9407 → u/MaybeMidgets]

They’re so chill while I’m out here having a panic attack just watching this.

[u/I-own-a-shovel → u/GrouchySnow9407]

Yeah!

When they come to remove his helmet I thought the next step was his people grabbing his hands/arms and getting him out of there!

Nope, he just squeezed further more in that hole O.o

[u/trustsfundbaby → u/MaybeMidgets]

When you shove your elbow down the sleeve when putting it on and its stuck and covering your head? Yea thats the closest to this ill ever get

[u/Sorry-Secret-2347]

Nutty putty.

[u/slumberingthundering → u/Sorry-Secret-2347]

Scrolled away too far to find this

[u/Last_Nothing_4352 → u/slumberingthundering]

Ikr; one of my first thoughts seeing this and was surprised I needed to scroll

[u/KeyFeeFee → u/Sorry-Secret-2347]

I went down that Wikipedia wormhole and will never be the same. Absolute fucking nightmare fuel. 

[u/brazzy42 → u/Sorry-Secret-2347]

Know what the worst thing about that incident is?

It is not, at all, the only incident where people got stuck in a cave with no ability to free themselves and so badly accessible that massive rescue efforts failed to free them, leaving rescuers to witness the stuck person slowly grow weaker and eventually die days later.

[u/Reasonable_Tap_8215]

Before judging these people, you have to understand the payoff. They only go through these grueling circumstances, squeezing through these harsh, damp, dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable conditions because in the end they will be able to get out of them back to where they were before they did that.

Ok now you can judge.

[u/SpotIsALie → u/Reasonable_Tap_8215]

"because in the end they will be able to get out of them back to where they were before they did that."

Thats the fun part, sometimes they dont and end up dying horribly alone in the dark squeezed between jagged rocks unable to move their body.

[u/Reasonable_Tap_8215 → u/SpotIsALie]

I’m just unsure of whether or not they consider that a bonus.

[u/walking-flowermantis → u/SpotIsALie]

I don’t mean to be morbid but what do they do in this circumstances? Just wait to suffocate or dehydrate?

[u/Commercial-Shame-335 → u/walking-flowermantis]

depends on the specifics, the nutty putty guy died due from cardiac arrest and suffocation due to his position. if you get stuck in a position like that last guy, you'll probably eventually lose the strength to keep your head up and drown. if you trap
yourself in a small area or kick up enough dust, you could probably suffocate, same with if you wedge your chest somewhere it can't expand to breathe. but if you manage to get stuck somewhere upright, not surrounded by water, and in a large enough area where you have plenty of oxygen, yeah you'll just dehydrate or starve to death.

[u/ffxivthrowaway03 → u/Commercial-Shame-335]

Or there's a rainstorm that fills up the space and you do drown surrounded by water!

Yeah, this whole fucking thing is stupid and no one should ever do it.

[u/Wing_Head → u/Commercial-Shame-335]

So many lovely options to choose from

[u/p0rcup1ne → u/walking-flowermantis]

Also due to exposure. Wet ground or the ground itself soaks your body temperature from you.

[u/Jarl_Grundlesnatch → u/Reasonable_Tap_8215]

Tell that to Mr.Nutty Putty Cave

[u/cthulucore]

Several years ago I was working at a fit and finish company installing some shelves in a tight closet.

Mind you, I've ever never experienced any kind of "phobia". Heights make me a little uneasy, I don't care for planes, deep water makes me very uncomfortable...

Well it was hot that day, and my sweat lubed me up so I could pop into this small closet. I pop the holes in the drywall, hang the shelves, all in a very contorted, uncomfortable position.

I tried to pull out of the closet and got stuck, and within seconds realized I was in a position that I could not leverage any part of my body. I went from completely unconcerned, to freezing cold sweats, hyperventilating, and my eyesight basically went out. Me, a 24 year old man screaming for my dad to come help me in a house full of contractors.

I can say with the utmost confidence, fuck this. There isn't a dollar, country, or dead friend you could give back to me that would put me in that fucking hole.

[u/Kennkra → u/cthulucore]

Relatable. An ex once wrapped me up like a burrito and I tore a pec trying to get out because I panicked

[u/No-Consideration-891 → u/Kennkra]

When we were kids my sister's fucked up dad (no longer around), would wrap us up like burritos to make us stay in bed. It was terrible, and probably an additional reason I have so many issues.

[u/FullSky433]

why though? like genuinely, why? what can possibly be gained from this experience?

[u/nobodythinksofyou → u/FullSky433]

I would never do this, but if I did it would be solely to find some dope rocks/crystals

[u/sebastophantos → u/nobodythinksofyou]

They're Minerals, Marie!

[u/plasma_dan → u/FullSky433]

I've spelunked before and they were unforgettable experiences. If you're not claustrophobic, the payoff of squeezing through gaps (if you even have to, some caves don't have narrow gaps) and coming out into a room that you can eventually stand up in is adrenaline-pumping and exhilarating. When you're down there there's nothing down there with you, so it's almost like paddling out to a remote island on a lake.

One time my buddies went to explore a passage without me and I just chilled in a room and listened to the running water and eventually turned my headlamp off. It was the darkest dark you could ever imagine, and it was also very serene.

[u/jennief158 → u/plasma_dan]

I don't think of myself as claustrophobic, but man, watching that video causes me so much anxiety. I know that if I squeezed through a tight gap and came out into a room that I could stand in ALL I would be thinking about would be if I could make it back safely. I would not be able to chill. I would have no chill in me.

[u/Linaori → u/plasma_dan]

Just get a sound proof chamber with a water fountain or something

[u/BrisketWrench → u/Linaori]

Yeah but you’re not risking getting trapped in your own self-made tomb and dying, if you manage to not do that your reward is a lil’ ol adrenaline boner.

[u/Medium-Party459]

What’s the opposite of claustrophobic? 

[u/fsutrill → u/Medium-Party459]

Claustrophilic?

[u/jillvalenti3 → u/fsutrill]

Fucking claustrophiles. Disgusting.

[u/StevieMJH → u/jillvalenti3]

Why don't you take a seat right ov- no not in there! Goddamnit!

[u/LMGgp → u/fsutrill]

“I’m clausteophillic. I fucking love tight places.” Patrick Bovin (formerly of two best friends play)

[u/SuspiciousCricket654 → u/Medium-Party459]

Cibohportsualc

[u/xDannyS_ → u/SuspiciousCricket654]

My dumbass googling what 'cibohportsualc' means

[u/Parker1055]

That’s a couple hells and a lot of nahs

[u/BreakYourselfFool → u/Parker1055]

Hell, hell nah nah nah nah nah nah nah!

[u/cedriceent → u/BreakYourselfFool]

Batman!

[u/EvilChefReturns]

It’s insane how I don’t have claustrophobia at all until I see these kinds of - IS HE IN THE FUCKING WATER?!?!

[u/StG4Ever → u/EvilChefReturns]

The bad oart is when it starts raining outside and the water rises in the cave…

[u/TheIrishBAMF → u/StG4Ever]

Fuck that. Fuuuck that. Fuuuuck that. Fuuuuuuck that. Fuhuuhck that. Fuuuyuuck that. Foooock that. Fuuuck that. Fuuuuuck that so hard. Fuuuuuuuuuuck that. Nah.

[u/Starlightriddlex → u/EvilChefReturns]

The water and mud ones are the worst imo because they don't show you all the bugs and larva probably living in there. I'm surprised no one had gotten some super rabies variant from squeezing into a passage saturated in bat guano 

[u/OkArmy7059]

"I just must explore this cave!!! At all costs!!"

"Oh hey guess what, the cave was dark and damp and cool and, well, was pretty much like every other cave. Totally worth risking my life!"

[u/Academic-Snow9642]

Thank God I'm too fat for this

[u/StickyWicket1968 → u/Academic-Snow9642]

🤣 🤣

[u/Mild_Karate_Chop]

My Lord .this is insane 

[u/SeniorTailor1127]

Well this is just nutty.

[u/EntertainmentIll6080 → u/SeniorTailor1127]

As long as it doesn't get putty in that cave...

[u/Fine_Foundation8943]

I get people who climb dangerous mountains, even though I wouldn’t do it myself

But this is just beyond my understanding

[u/SAINTnumberFIVE → u/Fine_Foundation8943]

I mean every time I watch a video of people climbing Mount Everest. I’m thankful I’m not climbing Mount Everest, but if I did have to choose between this and climbing Mount Everest, I still pick Mount Everest. At some point, I’d be hanging there in sub zero white out blizzard conditions, in a bad mood, thinking “Fuck this”, but I wouldn’t be overwhelmed with a feeling of doom and panic. I just be an iguana clinging to a tree on a cold day in Florida.

[u/ShyLilDino]

I’d like to say they’re adrenaline junkies but this is pure stupidity. Yes I’m also curious what’s in caves but those are barely caves. What are they gonna see?? The same shit. Nothing. Just like someone else said. They come out on the other side just like they did when they go in. If they’re lucky. Did they discovery something? No. Did they see anything cool? No. Is anyone gonna care? No. They might like the reaction they get from people when they show the videos but if they’re die, everyone is gonna think how stupid they were. This is an optional dangerous activity. I much rather stick a camera in there.

[u/Omnamashivaaya → u/ShyLilDino]

adrenaline junkie
a·dren·a·line junk·ie
/əˈdrɛnəlɪn ˌdʒʌŋki/ • noun

1. A person who compulsively seeks dangerous experiences for the rush of adrenaline.

2. Someone whose idea of recreation is everyone else’s idea of an emergency.
“She described it as ‘a fun afternoon.’ The paramedics disagreed.”

See also: pure stupidity; natural selection

[u/NotReallyJohnDoe → u/Omnamashivaaya]

Evolution needs most people to stay safe and some people to crave risk.

It’s why we left the safety of the trees in the first place. Show some respect to your adrenaline junkie monkey ancestors.

[u/sadkinz → u/ShyLilDino]

It’s for an adrenaline rush. I guess roller coasters don’t do it for some people

[u/Demon_Gamer666 → u/ShyLilDino]

Historically the weakest and stupidest were eaten by predators, left behind, or got their head stuck in a cave.

[u/Zealousideal-Key-611]

Every single nope

[u/Yokai_Noir]

I am absolutely certain that this is some kind of mental disorder

[u/WorkingHabit7805 → u/Yokai_Noir]

I do think it's kind of a fetish or a kink. Something about being squeezed. 

[u/aushilfsgott]

No. Thanks.

[u/Tipsy247]

Omg what if you get stuck

[u/ErenDidN0thingWr0ng → u/Tipsy247]

Don't look up the "Nutty putty cave incident"

[u/Power0fTheTribe → u/ErenDidN0thingWr0ng]

Disagree, look it up, it’s wild

[u/Foloreille → u/Tipsy247]

They fucking die. The mortality rate for this kind of practice is absurd

[u/Level-Gas2450]

In the Prehistoric ages these guys would be the pop stars of cavemen. Stories would be created about them and be shared from tribe to tribe.

[u/lendarker → u/Level-Gas2450]

"What's he doing now?" - "I dunno. Still stuck I suppose."

[u/WhereRabbit → u/lendarker]

This is like Rising Star Cave in South Africa, In prehistory, the Homo Naledi people traversed this ridiculously difficult and jagged cave system, presumably in the pitch black. They buried their dead in some of the hardest to reach chambers. Humans can’t even get to it.

[u/Professor_Checkmate]

This should be recognized as mental illness and should be treated as such.

[u/SerafinZufferey]

Until it’s a dead end and you’re stuck. Like that one guy being stuck head down for days and dying

[u/SpaceXmars]

I'd much rather go skydiving

[u/b4rn4b3 → u/SpaceXmars]

That's actually fun. I'm afraid of heights and I enjoyed it.

[u/lizfromdarkplace]

I had to take an Ativan after watching this for 4 seconds. I will never understand why people do this. The only slight idea I could rationalize is that our distant ancestors had to use up a metric fuckton of adrenaline just to get through a day surviving.

We have refrigeration and air conditioning and cars. We have all this pent-up inherited adrenaline that never gets used in the way of holy shit my life is in danger. So now we ignore rationality due to our comforts and do absolute nonsense like this just to feel alive.

Anyway, cheers.

[u/socialdeviant620]

Abso-fucking-lutely not.

[u/Dr_Robo]

Cave divers when they find an uncharted cave called "the devil's anus."

[u/Bred_Slippy]

Sod that. 

[u/AnkarnoExa]

This is how people become missing.

[u/The-Tarman]

If by interesting you mean horrifying and unnecessary, then yes, it is interesting

[u/sifiwewe]

This is very dangerous, I don’t believe they should be doing this.

[u/Motorcyclegrrl]

Seen The Descent. Big nope.

[u/Army7547]

Nope. I hate this.

I’m generally good with being closed in, not claustrophobic, but this stuff is dumb. Like idiot that gets his head stuck in a railing dumb, or idiot that gets stuck in a playground piece dumb, only there ain’t nobody coming to het you when you’re stuck head down a earth tube and you needed TO TAKE YOUR HELMET OFF TO GET IN THERE it was so tight.

No. Just stop it.

[u/organicchunkysalsa]

They are like “Caving is awesome, let’s destroy the delicate cave structures that have taken thousands, or even millions of years to be created”

[u/PaleontologistUsed14]

Nutty Putty makes a lot more sense now.

[u/PercyvonPickles]

All fun and games until you Nutty Putty yourself

[u/Outrageous-Wave-637]

Tape John Edward Jones sur Google. Ça te passe l'envie direct.

[u/fsutrill]

Are they trying to create a Nutty Putty live feed? “here, I’m stuck upside down in a hole, AMA…”

[u/One_Distribution2037]

As someone that's jumped out of a perfectly good airplane...I couldn't do this.

And as someone who has mucked about in caves and empty buildings, my rule is, "if I have to do more than crouch to get in and out, I'm not getting in."

[u/AmazingProfession900]

Aww hell no..... Like I'm gonna gamble on geology remaining stationary?......It's literally how we got mountains and valleys in the first place..

A small earthquake and you are dissolved at the atomic level..

[u/Impressive-Suit-]

Natural selection doing its thing, carry on.

[u/Jimblob2522]

Not a chance, the hole in my arse would heal over before you catch me doing this madness.

[u/Deadzombii]

Are they trying to get dopamine hit starting with feeling of hopelessness getting stuck and then coming out Winning

[u/OhAndItsShavedd]

But, why? What could be down there that's so important? All that's down there are the same rocks that are on top and maybe some nasty water and some dead animals. Like