With how easy it is to record everything nowadays, recent years have given us a direct look into tense situations that we used to just hear recounted in stories by their survivors.
And not only do these clips teach us that our friends weren't embellishing their scariest stories as much as we may have thought, but they also give us a firsthand look at the hazards we may have only understood to be dangerous in the abstract.
Sometimes, these dangers come from other people and embarrassingly, they can also put the extreme consequences of our most ill-advised actions on display. But while nature is beautiful, it's easy to underestimate just how dangerous it can be when its power crosses our paths at the wrong time.
That was a situation one mountain climber faced and it was only because he knew what he was doing that he lived to tell about it.