Helmet Cams = Painful Videos

Yard sale. Auger. Rag doll.

For many, that’s an innocuous set of words, but for skiers, it can spell doom. Falls, however, invariably happen in the sport when pitch, gravity and the slightest error combine to send one tumbling ass over teakettle.

And now with the abundance of helmet cameras, people record these falls to watch in perpetuity. So brace yourself for two nasty falls: one by a snowboarder and another by an ice climber.

The snowboarder and his group got in, admittedly, over their heads and made some bad decisions. Then as you can clearly see, it gets worse (especially around 2:09), although astonishingly, he was unhurt.

Then, there is ice climber Mark Roberts who was ascending a tame route on one of Wales' highest mountains when he fell 330 feet. When his pack and crampons caught on a ledge, he came to a stop.