You can't tell me this is a good idea...

They call it 'mountaineering'.. I call it

 'an accident waiting to happen'...

 

Sure loooks like a lot of fun to me. This is a video of a guy who suddenly lost his footing and tumbles ass-over-tea kettle uncontrollably down a snowy mountainside. It shows the climber hurtling down a near 45-degree incline, tumbling over and over again.

Fellow climbers can do nothing but watch in horror as the man eventually comes to a halt in a pile of snow at the bottom.

The dramatic fall took place during a dangerous ascent of Mount Rysy. Reaching a height of up to 8,200 ft., it is the highest peak in Poland’s section of the Tatra Mountains. Moments before the accident, a fellow climber who witnessed the incident said the man placed his foot in the wrong spot, instantly losing his balance.

With little grip on the frozen slope, he began sliding down the narrow gully with no way of stopping himself. Remarkably, despite the violent descent, the man escaped with no serious injuries.

 

According to reports, the only injury he suffered was damage to his little finger. In the aftermath of the fall, the injured tourist was checked over by one of his companions, who happened to be a doctor.

Right place, right time I guess...

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