what's the one thing that you'd recommend all other rhp members to -erm- ry before they die!?
obvious things like sex and playing chess at rhp (not at the same time though...althouh that might be a nice un?) don't count...
me? i'd recommend putting your hands behind you back and falling forwards without puttign them out. it hurts, but it's reeeeeeeeeally hard to do...and you can tell all your freidns that you did it-and you'll have a broken nose to prove it!
I suffer from terrible vertigo (amongst other things...) and I got a parachute jump (tandem) for my birthday.
I recommend everyone in the whole wide world jump out of a plane. It's amazing.
It was lovely weather and I could see Utrecht, Amsterdam and Hilversum it was that clear. They're Dutch cities, by the way.
The plane was so small that you couldn't stand in it and the six of us had to sit on each other's laps. There wasn't a door, just a hole in the side with a curtain...
So, up I went. The first two jumped out on a static line at 3.000 feet (roughly a km high). The plane is so small and light that it tipped as they jumped and then you just look out the hole in the side, straight down. Very dizzying.
Then we went up. Really up. 12.000 feet high, to be exact (that's four km's). My girlfriend and sister couldn't see the plane from the ground. And seemingly passenger airoplanes fly at 10.000 feet. So when you see one flying as a little silver dot in the sky, with the white trail behind it, I was higher than that!
So, at 12.000 feet the other two jumped out. I was attached to the tandem master (or whatever he's called) and then we shuffled towards the hole in the plane. Dig this: I was hanging with my feet out the plane as if I was sitting on a fence. Then you tip forwards and fall.
A 40 second free fall at 180 km's an hour. The noise is tremendous, then the chute opens and it's completely silent. The world's below you and you slowly sail downwards for another 4 or 5 minutes.
It's brilliant.
I'd have to say white water rafting in the Smokies. For those of you who don't know what the smokies are, they're a mountain range in the US. I went this year. Class 2, 3, and 4 rapids.
We got soaked! We went with several other dozen people. Everyone else in the other boats fell out at the Lost Guide (famous rapid for killing people). But no one got hurt.
If you do go I would recommend not wearing sweats since cotton just sucks the water up like a sponge.
For people who don't like to get wet: go kiting in a strong wind. And I don't mean the simple ones you buy for a dollar in the supermarket, but the stunt-variety with two or more ropes. Gives quite a rush! Though you have to watch out not to use a one that is too large, as you will get blown away. And that is not a joke!
I once went to a kiting festival, and they had this huge kite under which they had hung a little basket in which you could send a little kid up. Of course parents who would allow their children in are completely out of their mind, but that is besides the issue. 😀
Originally posted by shavixmirHate to rain on your parade, and I certainly don't mean to belittle your achievement, but passsenger jets usually cruise at around 35000 feet. That is about 10000 metres, which may be what you are thinking of.
And seemingly passenger airoplanes fly at 10.000 feet. So when you see one flying as a little silver dot in the sky, with the white trail behind it, I was higher than that!
You'd need oxygen to jump from the height passenger jets fly at, the air is to thin to breathe. That's why such planes are pressurised.
I recommend going upriver by boat in northern Laos, from Luang Prabang to the remote northern villages. If you've seen Apocalypse Now you start to get an idea of what it's like. I jumped out of the boat in some village by the river in the middle of nowhere and twenty kids screamed and ran away. The guys were drinking something that was almost pure alcohol (they and I stuck our fingers in it and then lit them; there was a blue flame, no orange). We were completely surrounded by jungle for hundreds of kilometres. The whole village gathered in one hut and we sang and ate (canned tuna for some reason) and drank this godawful alcohol. When we left early next morning, there was an eerie blue light over the river and village. I still remember the faces of the kids waving goodbye through that light.
Originally posted by jimmyb270correct.
Hate to rain on your parade, and I certainly don't mean to belittle your achievement, but passsenger jets usually cruise at around 35000 feet. That is about 10000 metres, which may be what you are thinking of.
You'd need oxygen to jump from the height passenger jets fly at, the air is to thin to breathe. That's why such planes are pressurised.
Originally posted by geniusI did a similar falling thing once. I had my hands in the pockets of a long dress costume. I went to start running and stepped on the hem, tripped and fell flat on my breasts. Needless to say, I moved very slowly for several days after that.:'(
what's the one thing that you'd recommend all other rhp members to -erm- ry before they die!?
obvious things like sex and playing chess at rhp (not at the same time though...althouh that might be a nice un?) don't count...
me? i'd recommend putting your hands behind you back and falling forwards without puttign them out. it hurts, but it's reeeeee ...[text shortened]... you can tell all your freidns that you did it-[b]and you'll have a broken nose to prove it![/b]
Originally posted by shougivery nice
I recommend going upriver by boat in northern Laos, from Luang Prabang to the remote northern villages. If you've seen Apocalypse Now you start to get an idea of what it's like. I jumped out of the boat in some village by the river in the middle of nowhere and twenty kids screamed and ran away. The guys were drinking something that was almost pure alcohol ( ...[text shortened]... he river and village. I still remember the faces of the kids waving goodbye through that light.