A TikTok video displaying a hiker struggling on a harmful path in dangerous climate has gone viral, and the web mountaineering neighborhood is form of indignant. Max Wallenfang posted the video in July, and it gained over 1.5 million views. Within the video, Wallenfang’s girlfriend is slowly working her approach throughout a through ferrata (an space with completely mounted security chains/infrastructure to assist climbers or hikers traverse difficult and/or steep rocky terrain). It’s raining within the video.
Wallenfang overlaid textual content on the video that claims: “advised my [girlfriend] it’s gonna be a simple hike . . .”. Clearly, it’s not a simple hike. Some folks on TikTok word that the couple wasn’t ready for the terrain or the climate. The truth is, Wallenfang admits they weren’t.
“I actually didnt [sic] analysis the route sufficient upfront,” he wrote within the TikTok video’s caption. “There have been just a few footage on komoot and I didn’t anticipate any through ferratas on our journey. Errors had been made and I discovered from that. She absoluty [sic] killed it at the present time, and I’m happy with her.”
Wallenfang additionally set the report straight saying he didn’t truly inform his girlfriend it’d be a simple hike. He was simply being facetious in his textual content overlay. Primarily based on the video’s hashtags, it seems the couple was mountaineering within the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia.
See hikers caught in dangerous climate and on a more durable route than they anticipated right here:
Some commenters don’t maintain again of their replies.
“I pray I by no means discover a man who places me on this scenario,” wrote one particular person.
“Largest mistake ever. The least one can do is test the climate forecast. The mountains are to not be gambled with,” wrote one other.
Others say:
“Could a love like this by no means discover me.”
And: “through ferrata within the rain, with out security belt is loopy. Sure it’s ‘straightforward’, nevertheless it’s simply as straightforward to slide and die.”
We’re glad the couple completed this hike safely.
Have you ever ever hiked in dangerous climate and/or a harmful scenario and wished you’d ready higher?
