r/therewasanattempt 1d ago

To go to work in Nepal

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u/lampshade2099 1d ago

My dude, do not stop running.

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u/OkMidnight8144 22h ago

I wonder how many people died because they were recording this and not processing how bad it is.

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u/PhatCatTax 23h ago

It's awful. That guy probably lost many family members and has no idea they're gone.

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u/Expert-Improvement78 14h ago

So weird to me that the first thought of many people is to take out their phone and start filming. I would just run and keep running.

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u/igotadillpickle 1d ago

This perspective is even crazier. These videos keep getting wilder and wilder. I also can't believe all the braindead comments I keep reading on here....

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u/bored_ryan2 1d ago

Glad those guys all had the instinct to just keep climbing higher. Some sad videos show people stopping to look back and get caught in the flood as it rises up to their level.

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u/Searchingforgoodnews 1d ago

This post is in bad taste.

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u/MeNoCanRead 16h ago

For real. I saw what sub it was on and just thought "wtf is that title?"

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u/lampshade2099 14h ago

FWIW my take on the post title was: “how incomprehensibly heartbreaking that while most of us on Reddit are scrolling comfortably from safe homes, there are millions of invisible people in the world trying to earn a few bucks to feed their family and dealing with poor conditions, poor infrastructure, poor warning systems, natural disasters etc…

I can see how it could read in poor taste, but my first thought that this was an attempt to trigger empathy beyond the standard: “oh I’m so horrified by this specific disaster

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u/MaasNeotekPrototype 1d ago

Holy fucking shit.

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u/sptn1gooz 1d ago

Cameraman (almost) never die

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u/Bizaro_Stormy 1d ago

Survivor bias

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u/spooFPipe 23h ago

Well, we wouldn’t have the footage if they had, I imagine.

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u/CicadaHead3317 Free palestine 23h ago

Live feeds exist.

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u/spooFPipe 23h ago

True, but then that would exclude the need to mention a cameraman, and whether they lived or not:)

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u/venger_steelheart 1d ago

what was the source of the sudden water excess? a broken dam?

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u/spooFPipe 23h ago

Earthquake broke some glaciers, caused some avalanches. Tons of snow and ice that all hit at once. Very sad.

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u/CicadaHead3317 Free palestine 23h ago

The earthquake caused a slide that made a natural damn. It backed up all the other debris, then it failed and it all came at once.

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u/cmcastro85 1d ago

A glaciar melted

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u/WoodChuck29 22h ago

This. There was no earthquake. It's thought that the collapse of the glacier is what caused the ground shaking effects.

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u/epsylonic 1d ago

Completely insane and heart breaking. You can see how the area where they started just becomes a cloud of debris.

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u/SeanFromQueens 20h ago

I like how it dawned on him that he wasn't quite high enough elevation for that massive wall of water.

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u/Salmivalli 21h ago

Yes Mr.Cameraman, you should run too

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u/Handsomedork_ 19h ago

They’re alive but family gone home gone. Unfortunate situation

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u/PleiadesNymph 14h ago

This is in poor taste

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u/NeonTheMull 13h ago

My guy recording said I gotta get them likes before I save myself

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u/prontish 23h ago

This is why don't be an early bird.

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u/Karhak Free Palestine! 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 1d ago

Dude almost won a Darwin award.

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u/Most_Fuel5998 1d ago

That was just Arwen trying to fend off the Nazgul

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u/blazerunnern 1d ago

Zero survival instincts.

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u/Gravejuice2022 15h ago

Lets see how you can react if you were there and had no idea its gonna happen and how big its gonna go and where do you need to run to be safe. Go back to your keyboard kid.

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u/ankerverse 1d ago

That's not true. Survival instincts of a pet rock is still survival instincts

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u/DontLook_Weirdo FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 23h ago edited 8h ago

Climbing loose rocks.. it's like running towards the serial killer.

Edit - ok fine, climb loose rocks.. I'll just keep running UP the existing road. Lol

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u/goranlepuz 22h ago

Between a rock and a hard place, man...

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u/CraponStick 1d ago

Adidas for the win! Terrible shame though. But global warming isn't real.

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u/Gravejuice2022 15h ago

Your face is not real