What, no canyoneering??
http://www.tetongravity.com/story/adventure/your-chances-of-dying-ranked-by-sport-and-activity
Editor’s Note: Infographics! Man they’re cool. This one is wild, illustrating your chances of dying from doing anything from skiing to playing football to smoking to driving. Which activity do you think is the most deadly? Scroll down…
spinesnaper
Hey, it’s not like Russia will be firing SA-22 surface to air missiles at innocent passenger jets knocking them out of the sky. Oh yeah, that did happen.
Erik B.
Well…if Godzilla himself is ripping airplanes from the sky then screw flying…
MiCamp
And a quick clip from next weeks show.
Tom Collins
Just found this comic, I think its appropriate.
spinesnaper
That’s it then. I am bringing my snow board and scrable set next time I go canyoneering.
gajslk
The different units were a clue that the numbers might not be solid …
Gordon
tom wetherell
The “problem” with infographics is you never know how current the data is until you dig into it.
For instance, one of their references for climbing injuries is data from Yosemite, but only 1970-1990, and lots has changed since 1990! The American Journal of Preventative Medicine did a study in 2009 with data from 1990-2007 that reported climbing injuries increased by 63% over that period)
Infographic source: “Regarding Yosemite trad climbing, the chances of dying when climbing actively every third weekend for two days for a year are: 35 days/year x 2.5 deaths/year / 37,500 climber-days/year or 1/429 (John Dill, article about death and injury in Yosemite 1970 through 1990).”
-tom(w)
Deagol
also, it’s now Denali Park & Mountain and no longer McKinley
Kuenn
Ouch! An obese-smoking-Himalaya-climber, that plays Scrabble, doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance!!
Tom Collins
Of ever existing in the first place. My favorite was the car driving out of the side of the building.