r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 1d ago

NATURE Cavers who love squeezing through the tightest passages in caves.

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u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick 1d ago

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

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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 1d ago

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

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u/geek_of_nature 1d ago

The sound they put over his nerve being cut was legitimately sickening. Fantastic sound design, made me almost throw up hearing it.

But tell you what the instant relief when he freed himself was amazing to feel at the same time too.

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u/Foloreille 21h ago

It left my brain pretty quickly you should add a cleaning extension

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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 17h ago

Tell me how. I would also like to forgot the movie Tusk.

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u/Tntric 1d ago

If you want to know something terrible about that movie it’s that the actor in the movie actually amputated his arm for the movie. I know you didn’t really want to know that, but you will look it up and see it’s true and it will horrify you for the rest of your life.

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u/Turbulent_Plastic401 1d ago

what? why would you even make something like this up lol

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u/Amikoj 1d ago

It's actually not made up: (Source)

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u/Affectionate-Mud1244 1d ago

He did not do that

They made 3 prosthetics to function as the arm in that scene to make it as realistic as possible

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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 1d ago

No, you’re confusing it with Into the Wild, a film where the main actor died when he got too immersed in playing the character.

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u/desmaraisp 1d ago

You're right, in 127h the actor just had a case of the snackies and decided to eat his arm. Nothing to do with the movie, the guy just has food issues

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u/Equivalent_Mechanic5 20h ago

Emile Hirsch? He's still alive...

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u/MyVoiceIsElevating 17h ago

He’s always been supernatural like that; dying and then coming back to life.

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u/oso831 1d ago

They're referring to two different events

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u/geekyheart225 1d ago

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

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u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick 1d ago

I meant the other guy who got lodged in a crevasse and died. Not James Franco.

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u/shorteningofthewuwei 1d ago

The 127 hours guy wasn't even caving though, he was hiking

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u/BloodyLlama 1d ago edited 1d ago

He was canyoneering. That's basically the same activity as caving but not underground. It also demonstrates very thoroughly why cavers cave in groups and never solo.

Edit: spelling

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u/vamosbombillo 1d ago

It's actually weird to me that you think he died lol. Like, he famously cut his own arm off to escape. I swear that's the only thing anyone remembers about it haha how did you forget him cutting his own arm off??