Friday, November 18, 2011

mountain climbing

When people think of mountain climbing they may think of how high you have to climb and how dangerous the sport can be. There are many dangerous things that can happen while you are climbing up a steep and vertical wall of solid rock. These things are maybe your rope that is holding you up snaps, you lose your grip and hopefully not but rocks come loose off the wall and start to fall down at you.

It would not be a good thing to trying to climb a mountain and your harness or the rope broke. If either one of them break your in bad shape. You would start falling down the mountain. This could end in death or many broken bones. Then you would be out of commission of quiet some time.

If you happen to lose your grip while trying to scale rock walls you won’t start plummeting down to the ground. You start swinging around on the rope and smash into the side of the mountain. If you do hit the wall you might break a couple bones but otherwise you’re in good shape. It can be scary moment while you’re just dangling trying to reach for the wall so you can start climbing again.

What I think would be one of the most scariest things about mountain climbing is if rocks were to come loose and fall downwards to where you were trying to climb. This might result in serious injury. Rocks can cause a lot of damage and they hurt when you get hit by them. Mountain climbing is a very dangerous sport.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Bull riding is a dangerous sport. Bull riding is exactly what it sounds like. The riders who are called cowboys tie one of there hands securely to the bull with a bull rope. once the gate opens the rider must try to stay on the kicking and raging bull for eight seconds.

During the eight second ride anything can happen. The two thousand pound bull can buck you off and gorge you with one of its long horns. this can causee very serious damage. Many cowboys have died by the bulls horns. If the cowboy doesnt die from the injury then they may be done with bull riding.

The most dangerous part of bull riding is when either the eight seconds are up or the cowboy is bucked off early. Once that happens the riders main goal is to get away from the bull. Sometimes the bull will chase the rider down and attack him. The rider can be trampled on or thrown in to the air and land on the hard ground.

Concussions are common in the sport of bull riding. While the rider is trying to get away the bull that is still kicking and bucking may hit the rider in the head. Not all of the bull riders where helmets, some riders receive worse concussions than others.