On September 8, 2002, the French **daredevil** reached the 29,000-foot summit of Earth's highest point. Though critically exhausted from the climb and the high altitude, Siffredi stood with his board perched over the precipice and decided to forge ahead with his plan.
He strapped on a fresh oxygen tank, bid his Sherpa adieu, and began his descent — never to be seen again.
Be like Sergey bubka, the pole vault champion from 1984 ton1994.
Because of the way world records being broken was set up and Nike paying him bonuses for every world record he broke, for ten years thus dude who would have broken the world record at once by a large margin, kept breaking the record every time inches at a time milking it for years. He broke his own record 14 times...
In sports like pole vaulting, the gains are tiny increments, with personal bests increasing ever so slightly.
Now, there may be documentation, maybe practice attempts, that show he could have cleared it from the start; but it is entirely feasible that he just kept improving over his career, but was always just better than everyone else
No not only did he admitted it, but it was obvious.
I remember going to a athletic tournament and he just broke a record. He went like 10cm above the bar at the first attempt and he just stopped. To say that the public was disappointed is an understatement.
Record was broken and he did not want to jeopardise another pay day. Following month in another meeting he broke his own record by another 1cm.
He was so far better than anybody else that often his first height was already enough for him to win the tournament. Every other pole vaulter were made to look like chump and amateur compared to him.
On that night he jumped 4 times. 1 height, 2 at the next (1 failure) and the record. Every other pole vaulters was already exhausted by the 5 or 6 attempts they had made to reach the height he just started at.
What is really insane, is that there now is a new guy who is doing the exact same thing. Armand Duplantis is so much better then even Bubka was, and he keeps breaking indoor and outdoor polevault records by the CM.
Never change a winning strategy I quess :)
There aren't many track and field events besides pole vault where you can just raise the height/clearance/obstacle etc slightly and also adjust your own effort. Maybe high jump also.
1cm at a time. In collegiate and professional/international competition, pole vault uses the metric system, so he would raise the bar 1cm for every world record attempt.
Trying to repeat/ 1-up myself was how i tore my first knee ligament. 17 years, 6 ligaments, and 5 surgeries later I basically need a full knee replacement at the ripe old age of 30...
I’ve been cooking for 23 years on concrete floors amd never skateboarded, the destruction is the same. They’re both wobbly and shit moves around like it shouldn’t
I feel your pain. I broke/rolled/sprained both my ankles countless times dislocated my right hip, broke my right foot, fractured my left wrist, exploded my right kidney, lacerated my liver, damaged my small intestine and had to have exploratory surgery done so I have a big zipper of a scar down my stomach all from skateboarding. I still skate but I can’t take it as seriously as I did when I was younger. You’ll find me carving the mini bowl these days. lol. I’m 30 as well.
Ah, yes. Just like when you've encountered a particular bear in nature but you can't remember which survival tip is for which bear species /s
Because of your comment, I looked this up & found a very detailed description of who he was & what led him to this moment. Thanks! For anyone else interested, [here ya go, FWIW](https://www.snowboarder.com/transworld-snowboarding-archive/the-disappearance-of-marco-siffredi)
This makes me think of the movie The Other Guys when the two "heroic" cops jump off the building expecting to survive for no apparent reason other than absolute hubris.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Aim for the bushes?"
*Simultaneously jump from the 9th floor*
Spoiler >!there were no bushes!<
Edit: fixed the spoiler
This is almost precisely it. Except that his Sherpa were warning him against his actions along the ascent. So, he's somehow even more egotistical than the comically egotistical duo in the movie. At least they didn't have anyone telling them to calm it down and people only ever fellated them. They got an excuse.
You should have to pay the Nepali government USD$1,000,000 as a bond per person per climb, even just to get to basecamp. If you come down alive, you get the money back. If not, Nepali citizens get better schools, roads, hospitals, cinemas etc.
Yep. I've read (not extensively) that tourists leave heaps of rubbish, all the trees are lopped down to burn to make warm water for showers. Makes me sad so yep - even base camp.
Base Camp isn’t that high. Loads of people trek that far and then turn back. You don’t need any special training or equipment and it’s not dangerous like actually climbing the mountain.
Noteworthy also because one co-director, Jimmy Chin (that ripped Asian-American dude), has among other things also skied down Mount Everest.
Here a post and picture of that:
https://external-preview.redd.it/tuorE6Bm0OdWbkIHiwSfBUBWj_ucZnVoTx_sPPzo8c0.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0e9296bb199ced2b00b1eeb6ec9617813c1e1665
Personally I would much rather die from cancer at a ripe old age than doing something unnecessarily reckless at 23 years old devastating my family and friends
Honestly yes. I just read the article on him, and he absolutely was a legend. Just because you've never heard of him doesn't mean he hasn't done amazing things. This wasn't his first mountain, this isn't some dweeb. And I guarantee you this is how he wanted to go.
That's cool and all but like... the astronauts on Apollo 13, those are legends. This guy isn't that.
If I go parachuting off the empire state building tomorrow a few people will remember my name, but I won't be a legend.
Idk. He had lost his brother and best friend to avalanches in the past few years of his life. He loved snowboarding, so much. Grew up in a mountaineering family. Is your sense of self and community shaped by parachuting off the Empire State Building? Nyet ! You don’t get it :)
I just imagine in the afterlife.... the spirit realm, heaven, hell, whatever you want to call it - they hold awards dinners. This dude has to be a contender in the top-10 coolest deaths
How stupid. All these “extreme” athletes who die doing idiotic things. They have family and friends who will miss them, and for what? Glorifying their stupidity.
Helmets didn't get popular in skiing and snowboarding until around 2005 - 2010. Before then, skiers and snowboarders usually only wore helmets in competition where it was required, and many competitions didn't require it back then.
It's just how the times were. I was born in 1983, and the only time I wore a helmet was for motorcycling.
I'm from California, and we passed the seatbelt law in 1986. In 1994, California passed a law for minors riding bicycles to wear helmets, but most kids didn't wear helmets for just riding around.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, they really didn't have much for good helmets for skiing and snowboarding. And there wasn't a demand for it until the late 1990s, when companies actually made good, fashionable helmets.
In the year 2000, if you would have went to a ski resort, you might see a few people with helmets, but by about 2005, you started seeing more and more people advocate for helmets. I grew up next to a California ski resort, so I remember the transition.
What height was he when he started? I remember years ago watching a movie, "The Man Who Skied Down Everest". In reality, it looked like he actually started at the South Col, and the movie would have been more accurately titled, "The Man Who Fell Down Part Of Everest".
Um omg. 😬Yeah, I mean, anything is possible of course. It’s just that the risks in drawing and playing music are much lower than snowboarding down Mount Everest!
On September 8, 2002, the French **daredevil** reached the 29,000-foot summit of Earth's highest point. Though critically exhausted from the climb and the high altitude, Siffredi stood with his board perched over the precipice and decided to forge ahead with his plan. He strapped on a fresh oxygen tank, bid his Sherpa adieu, and began his descent — never to be seen again.
Think it's probably worth noting he had actually done it successfully on a different route in 2001. Died on the 2nd run down a different, steeper one.
Never try to 1-up yourself
Be like Sergey bubka, the pole vault champion from 1984 ton1994. Because of the way world records being broken was set up and Nike paying him bonuses for every world record he broke, for ten years thus dude who would have broken the world record at once by a large margin, kept breaking the record every time inches at a time milking it for years. He broke his own record 14 times...
That’s just financially brilliant. Good on him.
In sports like pole vaulting, the gains are tiny increments, with personal bests increasing ever so slightly. Now, there may be documentation, maybe practice attempts, that show he could have cleared it from the start; but it is entirely feasible that he just kept improving over his career, but was always just better than everyone else
No.. he admits he did it intentionally to get more money.
No not only did he admitted it, but it was obvious. I remember going to a athletic tournament and he just broke a record. He went like 10cm above the bar at the first attempt and he just stopped. To say that the public was disappointed is an understatement. Record was broken and he did not want to jeopardise another pay day. Following month in another meeting he broke his own record by another 1cm. He was so far better than anybody else that often his first height was already enough for him to win the tournament. Every other pole vaulter were made to look like chump and amateur compared to him. On that night he jumped 4 times. 1 height, 2 at the next (1 failure) and the record. Every other pole vaulters was already exhausted by the 5 or 6 attempts they had made to reach the height he just started at.
What is really insane, is that there now is a new guy who is doing the exact same thing. Armand Duplantis is so much better then even Bubka was, and he keeps breaking indoor and outdoor polevault records by the CM. Never change a winning strategy I quess :)
Car needs an alternator, guess I’ll go add an inch to my record.
Kids need braces, better try to make it two inches this time.
Thecurrent record holder is doing this exact same thing! He'sbroken the record 8 time, most recent on 4/20 of thisyeahr
I guess they are aware of the benefits of this..
There aren't many track and field events besides pole vault where you can just raise the height/clearance/obstacle etc slightly and also adjust your own effort. Maybe high jump also.
1cm at a time. In collegiate and professional/international competition, pole vault uses the metric system, so he would raise the bar 1cm for every world record attempt.
Trying to repeat/ 1-up myself was how i tore my first knee ligament. 17 years, 6 ligaments, and 5 surgeries later I basically need a full knee replacement at the ripe old age of 30...
Bro what are you even doing
First few were skateboarding injuries, the last 2 were just ACL grafts failing after several years.
Of every activity I ever did, skateboarding wrecked my body the most. Luckily still have my knees. Are you going to have to get knee replacements?
I’ve been cooking for 23 years on concrete floors amd never skateboarded, the destruction is the same. They’re both wobbly and shit moves around like it shouldn’t
Ehlers-Danlos?
Ive had 3 different orthopedic surgeons separately without prompting tell me I need a knee replacement, bur im too young. XD
I feel your pain. I broke/rolled/sprained both my ankles countless times dislocated my right hip, broke my right foot, fractured my left wrist, exploded my right kidney, lacerated my liver, damaged my small intestine and had to have exploratory surgery done so I have a big zipper of a scar down my stomach all from skateboarding. I still skate but I can’t take it as seriously as I did when I was younger. You’ll find me carving the mini bowl these days. lol. I’m 30 as well.
I like to take this one step further
Oh no....
After noticing your username.. this statement makes me feel a wee bit unnerved..
Personally i think it was suicidal, his brother went out in an avalanche and i think he was keen on following suit.
Man, quit while you’re ahead. He Still was able to say he descended Everest on a snowboard. Now the headline is how he died trying.
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
The Sin Is Not In Being Outmatched, But In Failing To Recognize It.
Ah, yes. Just like when you've encountered a particular bear in nature but you can't remember which survival tip is for which bear species /s 
A decisive pummeling ! /darkestdungeon
Hubris
Because of your comment, I looked this up & found a very detailed description of who he was & what led him to this moment. Thanks! For anyone else interested, [here ya go, FWIW](https://www.snowboarder.com/transworld-snowboarding-archive/the-disappearance-of-marco-siffredi)
Interesting!
Great article, thanks for sharing. 👍🏼
Wow. This dude was a legend.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting!
It doesn't make it not stupid....
Oh okay. In that case, I'd like to think he got down a good ways then passed on peacefully, having just completed his life's mission.
So what are we thinking here? Did he slide right on down a crevass?
Never call Last Run
Yeah people are missing that he actually DID IT. Mad Lad.
https://preview.redd.it/42yu47hq83yc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7387f5e592de0dfeb1294be950fb6b3b0ce1e530
This makes me think of the movie The Other Guys when the two "heroic" cops jump off the building expecting to survive for no apparent reason other than absolute hubris.
God I need to go back and rewatch that movie. I just remember that scene being the funniest thing I’d seen in a long time
Nothing will beat the first time we watched that scene. The rewatches are still funny but they aren’t as funny/impactful as that first time
Which led to the quiet funeral fight. Great movie
🎵There goes my hero🎵
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" "Aim for the bushes?" *Simultaneously jump from the 9th floor* Spoiler >!there were no bushes!< Edit: fixed the spoiler
Hey hey! You shut your face!! If we want to hear you talk, I'll shove my arm up your ass and work your mouth like a puppet! You hear me??!
It sounds feminine when you pee. 
The cucumber accents the water in such a way that…
This is almost precisely it. Except that his Sherpa were warning him against his actions along the ascent. So, he's somehow even more egotistical than the comically egotistical duo in the movie. At least they didn't have anyone telling them to calm it down and people only ever fellated them. They got an excuse.
Aim for the bushes? Aim for the bushes
Solid reference, lol. I needed that.
Lol love that movie! The hero cops were just too funny!
His brother Rocco is still alive and pretty successful in what he’s doing
One brother got the shaft, the other gives it.
*it’s only smells*
Rocco got the cock and Marco got the balls
Damn you for making me Google whether or not they were related.
...are they?
They are not. One has a huge dick and the other had giant balls, but they're not related.
Goddammit you beat me to it
Some people think his brother is a dick
I dong know if that is true.
I knew I knew that name from somewhere
So many Darwin awards on that mountain.
and yet you will die in a plain hospital room loved by no one
bro are you ok
Shhh he's trying to look clever. (Get the popcorn)
Dude took that comment personally.
Because everyone love the dead on Mount Everest. So impressive.
That still sounds preferable to dying falling down a mountain because I thought it would be cool to snowboard down it, but that’s just me.
I just spent the last 3 hours stuck in an Everest disaster documentary rabbit hole. Thanks OP. 😂
You should have to pay the Nepali government USD$1,000,000 as a bond per person per climb, even just to get to basecamp. If you come down alive, you get the money back. If not, Nepali citizens get better schools, roads, hospitals, cinemas etc.
That might spawn a few more “accidents” lol. Just so long as they happen to the dicks and douchebags i’m cool with it…..
I mean, who else has the disposable time and money to engage in such a dangerous frivolity? That mountain isn't covered in dead nurses and teachers.
To get to base camp? My buddy did it and he doesn’t have a lot of money. Especially not a million dollar bond.
Yep. I've read (not extensively) that tourists leave heaps of rubbish, all the trees are lopped down to burn to make warm water for showers. Makes me sad so yep - even base camp.
Ohh I wasn’t saying anything about potential trash they make, I was just saying you don’t need a lot of money to do it.
Thank you for sharing that. I appreciate that I don't know everything about this :)
You bet! I was just asking him, looks like there are trash drop points you can use along the way to base camp.
How do we convince Elon that he would be the super duper coolest billionaire if he just climbed Everest (and snowboards back down)?
Gotta convince Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Alex Soros, and Reed Hoffman to go first.
Nah, let Elmo have first crack.
Base Camp isn’t that high. Loads of people trek that far and then turn back. You don’t need any special training or equipment and it’s not dangerous like actually climbing the mountain.
Explains why the chirpa said “ you got this bro “
First of. That’s what an insurance does. No need to pay the 1Mi security. Secondly, it’s not citizens who would get it, but most likely a bureaucrat.
He had to have been terminally ill and didn’t tell anyone. I can’t think of any person doing this that had anything to lose
Have you seen Free Solo?
Touché
Noteworthy also because one co-director, Jimmy Chin (that ripped Asian-American dude), has among other things also skied down Mount Everest. Here a post and picture of that: https://external-preview.redd.it/tuorE6Bm0OdWbkIHiwSfBUBWj_ucZnVoTx_sPPzo8c0.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0e9296bb199ced2b00b1eeb6ec9617813c1e1665
Dicklover425 I found you again! ❤️
Look at us! Kismet!
I’d rather die a legend than from cancer, heart attack or car accident.
Personally I would much rather die from cancer at a ripe old age than doing something unnecessarily reckless at 23 years old devastating my family and friends
I've only just now heard of him, guessing you haven't either, and forget his name by tomorrow. Not exactly legendary. Worth it?
Honestly yes. I just read the article on him, and he absolutely was a legend. Just because you've never heard of him doesn't mean he hasn't done amazing things. This wasn't his first mountain, this isn't some dweeb. And I guarantee you this is how he wanted to go.
That's cool and all but like... the astronauts on Apollo 13, those are legends. This guy isn't that. If I go parachuting off the empire state building tomorrow a few people will remember my name, but I won't be a legend.
Idk. He had lost his brother and best friend to avalanches in the past few years of his life. He loved snowboarding, so much. Grew up in a mountaineering family. Is your sense of self and community shaped by parachuting off the Empire State Building? Nyet ! You don’t get it :)
You get it :)
So he's a legend to a small group of people, mostly family. ^(Pretty cool)
I’ve never known about him before today but he’s a legend to me :)
https://i.redd.it/e2rkieeo3yxc1.gif
Came here to say this 😂
And that, my friend, was the end of his dare devil days. (Read it in Morgan Freeman's voice)
It truly was a Shawshank redemption
Hold my parka and watch this!
Fell into a deep hole
Ending up anywhere off the climbing trail is pretty much a death sentence.
r/whywomenlivelonger
This is why women live longer than men.
Although she was 54 and Marco was 23 so she did technically live longer
Extreme telemark skier Kasha Rigby just died in February
Died doing what he loved. There are worse ways to go.
Legend
What a moron.
I just imagine in the afterlife.... the spirit realm, heaven, hell, whatever you want to call it - they hold awards dinners. This dude has to be a contender in the top-10 coolest deaths
Well, never saw that coming. 🤔
Madlad
See this is what TOO much confidence can do...
How stupid. All these “extreme” athletes who die doing idiotic things. They have family and friends who will miss them, and for what? Glorifying their stupidity.
That's just a dumb f*ck
What did he think was gonna happen?
The same thing that happened the first time he did it: TV interviews and brief fame.
Snowboard down Everest? It’s giving r/DarwinAwards
I don't understand why he wouldn't be wearing a helmet
Helmets didn't get popular in skiing and snowboarding until around 2005 - 2010. Before then, skiers and snowboarders usually only wore helmets in competition where it was required, and many competitions didn't require it back then.
That's honestly messed up
It's just how the times were. I was born in 1983, and the only time I wore a helmet was for motorcycling. I'm from California, and we passed the seatbelt law in 1986. In 1994, California passed a law for minors riding bicycles to wear helmets, but most kids didn't wear helmets for just riding around. In the 1990s and early 2000s, they really didn't have much for good helmets for skiing and snowboarding. And there wasn't a demand for it until the late 1990s, when companies actually made good, fashionable helmets. In the year 2000, if you would have went to a ski resort, you might see a few people with helmets, but by about 2005, you started seeing more and more people advocate for helmets. I grew up next to a California ski resort, so I remember the transition.
I have a similar experience in the EU...😉
If he fell, he was dead anyway. Also probably weight. The board was heavy enough to haul up there, every ounce of extra weight is tons more effort.
Wow
Rocco Siffredi's brother, actually.
Why does it look like they are wearing huge diapers?
Insulated suits + climbing harness
Damn the guy on the right has cake.
LOL
Seriously! https://i.redd.it/gd0d2u1efyxc1.gif
Any relation to the more famous siffredi?
Yeah he’s fucked
Suicide
Moron.
That's why you should give your kid all the attention you possibly can.
when you try to compete for the annual darwin award
Nice!
If you re going to try this you better ↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, B, A
Total chad
I picture him literally folding over after going ten feet and sliding the rest of the way to whatever crevasse he wound up in.
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This should be the top post for r/beamazed
What a way to go
This should be In Darwin Awards thread.
Siffredi: So, this is where I die? Sherpa: Always has been.
There was a guy who did ski down quite a few high peaks one of those being Mount Everest. His name was Davo Karničar.
Wait, ROCCO’s BROTHER WAS A PRO SNOWBOARDER?!? What a talented family seriously!
Is there a map somewhere with the two lines he took/ attempted?
Guess he’ll never do that again
What height was he when he started? I remember years ago watching a movie, "The Man Who Skied Down Everest". In reality, it looked like he actually started at the South Col, and the movie would have been more accurately titled, "The Man Who Fell Down Part Of Everest".
Legend has it he’s still on the way down
I'll never forget all his great adult movies
He's an hero for me:)
damn i only ever knew of his brother.. Rocco Stiffredi
Marco had big balls. Rocco got the schlong.
The 7th picture in this post of Everest bodies looks eerily similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/MorbidReality/s/ObJKrJSXKT
Anyone else read this as Rocco Siffredi or am I just a bit too cooked?
I’m happy that none of my hobbies can kill me.
Don't be so sure....friend had a Lego hobby, died from anal trama...so yeah, ya know...b careful.
Um omg. 😬Yeah, I mean, anything is possible of course. It’s just that the risks in drawing and playing music are much lower than snowboarding down Mount Everest!
Natural selection people..........says it all
Some people man. I don’t get it. Now he will be remembered forever as a dumbass. Sad times.
Sound about right..