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Stop.

I'm not sure if you're just trolling but I'll bite.

There are many deaths every year from people falling literally 10 feet to the ground.

...so, yeah 30ft to rocks covered by a few inches of foam is not going to work out so well for ya.
Or to put it more plainly.... Yer gonna die!

Edit: I know, sorry for failing you user id

How old are you? Only reson I ask is you can practicaly heal overnite if your still young, therefore we all took more risks in our youth. Now, at 35, a 30ft fall would seriously mess up my mojo for awhile. Ankles and knees aren't going to like a fall from that height and in reality you would be lucky if thats all you hurt. 30ft can kill. Be carefull. Being a daredevil is fun, at the moment, but all that crap in your youth will catch up to you at some point.

Some risks are worth it, some aren't. Your gonna have to make that choice for yourself.

I fall 6 ft, sprain my ankle, limp around and heal slowly for next 4 months,,,cuz I'm OLD. Decide how busted up you want to be at age 60 if you keep higball bouldering now.

hahahaha darwinism! decking from 30 feet? really?

30+ feet is only "bouldering" in the gym. Outside, we call that free-soloing..

What you chose to free-solo is your own prerogative.. personally, I'll solo up to a certain grade. The height isn't really an issue.. once you get over a couple dozen feet, a fall to jagged rock will probably kill you from 3,100' just as well as 31'. It's the grade and conditions that'll decide me- 'cause those are what's gonna make you drop.

Approximately how fast would a mass be traveling when it hits the ground if it was dropped from thirty feet. If you can convert to mph it would help me wrap my head around the number, more so than meters/sec.

For the record, I've decked with my feet 18 feet off the ground, landed on boulders (and a girl) and barely got a scratch. I've also decked... OK I am not going to tell all my decking stories but a lot of not getting hurt is luck once you get that high off the ground.

I think I remember reading that with industrial accidents, falling 30 feet results in a 50% chance of fatality. In that 50% survival side, I would imagine there were a lot of awful injuries, resulting in paralyses and other manglings.

Here is a link from a quick google answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/350238.html

Troll or not, it is actually a good question. Some climbers should be more aware of the answer. It is a common psychological condition that when people take chances and get away with it, their risk tolerance keeps moving up. Traders have to be super aware of it. You actually get a boost of testosterone when you make a successful trade which increases your risk taking and without vigilance you can start breaking your risk control rules. I am sure it is a problem with soloists. You get all pumped up and feel good when you get away with it, so keep pushing the bounderies and risk awareness goes to shit. I know I get a buzz from highballing.

My son was in an estimated 40 foot industrial fall last spring. Result: Fractures: 2 femurs, lumbar and cervical vertebrae, several ribs, R wrist. No neuro damage or head injuries. A year later he's in pretty good shape, walks with a slight limp, residual hip pain. He stuck the landing btw. Age 28.

I hereby apologize for responding to the troll, but ...

Last May I rapped off the end of my rope and decked from 30-40 feet. I landed on fairly flat dirt: about as lucky as you can get. I burst-fractured L1, and the broken pieces of bone went >75% of the way across my spinal canal. In other words: as close to paralyzed (and losing control of my bladder and bowel) as you can get. Also wedge-fx'd T6 and T7, and have a disc thing going on between L4 and L5.

That's just my spine. I also had a bad pleural effusion, a bruised heart, hip bursitis, meniscus damage to my knee, and oh yeah, broke my calcaneus.

Almost a year and six surgeries later, hardware in my spine, I'm still a bit gimpy from the foot injury but doing well mostly, and yep, been back out climbing.

All of my doctors have told me I'm far beyond lucky. I walk and talk, and that's not to be taken for granted. Someone said the 50% fatality mark is at 20 feet? Not sure. It highly depends on the landing. I hit dirt; if it were rocks I'd be dead.

You asked, and that's the damn answer. Laugh on away, troll.

In other words, OP.... a fall from 30' can seriously fuck you up. Don't do it (fall). Everything else is subject..

Hey Lisa, since you've replied a few times on this thread that's enough to pretty much convince me you're not trolling.

Folks will jump to the conclusion that someone is trolling if the question has a seemingly obvious answer but is likely to elicit plenty of "spirited" responses nonetheless. In this case, it's obvious to most that a 30-foot fall is going to result in serious, life-lasting injuries or death. Be careful out there...the ground is super hard and very unforgiving.

I just recently (last week) fell from a tree (aka, jumped to a lower branch that snapped) from about 20+ feet and landed on solid concrete. Landed on my back and didn't break anything. My shoulder hurts a lot and will probably need a month to recover.

yer gunna die....maybe...maybe not

Lisa, I apologize for being angry at you if you're real. You just registered last week, which is my biggest indication of being a troll or not, when you're asking this kind of a question. Obviously, I got very injured, so I'm pretty touchy about jerks trolling for something that is life & death for me.

I can tell you that I've been seen by more than a handful of docs at this point, and each and every one of them has raised their eyebrows and made sure to tell me how lucky I was. My knee doc knew the 50% height. Of course, the statistics on that aren't great ... I also think I read somewhere that the rate of spinal injury is HUGE at 30 ft. So not only is death pretty likely -- but if you do manage to live, it's overwhelmingly likely that your injuries will be very serious. You don't just pull a tendon or sprain a wrist.

Brian, GWI next winter for sure! Just had that last thing done a week ago, feeling pretty good.

I don't have words yet for what it was like to rappel the first time again.

Lisa would you expect to be able to jump off the roof of a two story house into rocks and walk away okay??? I had a hard time believing this was a serious question too.

You also know its a bad idea to walk into oncoming traffic, correct? That it is a bad idea to stick a fork in an electrical socket? etc...

I think we all just thought it was common sense that falling from 30 feet to rocks is bad and were unsure why someone would have to ask your question... I dont think you have to be a rock climber to figure out its a bad idea!

Marty's 7 foot bouldering fall in LCC a couple years ago...

hip Submitted By: Sandy Draus on Sep 5, 2009

When I was dumbass freshman I was climbing on our dorms and fell from the third story onto mulch and dirt. I compressed really hard, rolled, brushed off and walked away.

If I fell onto rocks I definitely would not have walked away so easily.

Sometimes you are lucky.