This is a video of (I assume former) acrobatic paraglider Kevin Philipp, who was doing some loopty loops and swirly birdies above Spain when he got completely tangled up in his lines (allegedly due to turbulence), sending him plummeting towards earth. After initially failing to deploy his emergency chute, he

This is a video of a man riding in a homemade spinning chair of death that rotates via a direct connection to an axle being towed behind an ATV. It spins FAST. I guess there’s a reason they painted a skull on the back of the chair, because I’m pretty

This is a video of a team of sherpas calmly rescuing a Mount Everest climber who falls while crossing a ladder bridge above a crevasse at the Khumbu Icefall. How cool and collected they are — those are definitely the people you want rescuing you from otherwise certain death. Per

Death: it’s always lurking right around the corner. This is a security cam video from a building in Vladivostok, Russia of a man cleaning snow from his car when he hears a sound, looks up, and gets the hell out of the way just before a giant concrete slab crushes

In close calls news, this is a short video of a jaywalking woman flipping off a car that honked at her, then proceeding to blindly walk right into the side of a U-Haul van traveling on the other side of the median. Always live your life like a free game

This is a video of 16-year old Russian soccer (football) player Ivan Zaborovsky getting struck by lightning during a warmup. Amazingly, he survived the incident with only a scar where he was wearing a metal necklace, and was back on the field three weeks later. Me? I would have been