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Originally Posted by ckissick
I'm a geotechnical engineer with ample experience evaluating slope stability. I wouldn't go past that fissure. It could go at any time, even without anyone adding their own weight to it.
Also, I noticed on the wiki list of deaths that an inordinate amount happened in India. Even allowing for population, I think.
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That is my fear. I have this fear in a lot of situations, maybe to an unhealthy degree but I think better safe than sorry. A rusty railing in concrete where the concrete is cracking, on bridges again with rust or spalling concrete. Even with out that fissure I would never get that close to an edge. It's a risk not worth taking.