Because poor decision making is a skill honed over many years of doing idiotic sh!t and miraculously not dying because God gets a kick out of watching, this is a video of some DIY’er cutting down a tree with a chainsaw from atop a ladder. Surprising only to himself, the

This is a video from GoPro counting down what they believe to be the 10 scariest moments captured by their products. Are they the same 10 I would have chosen? Of course not, but we all find different things scary. Me? Heights, AND THAT’S ALL. A list of all the

Seemingly haven forgotten he’s not a paraglider, this is a video of a Brazilian kite surfer circling higher and higher into the sky on his way to Oz. That looks terrifying. Did he know what he was doing, or did he get caught in an updraft? How close was he

This is some helmetcam footage of skier Francis Zuber rescuing a snowboarder trapped in a tree well (aka a spruce trap — the area directly under an evergreen’s branches that doesn’t get as much snow as the surrounding area and creates a pit you can fall into and get buried)

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