I just couldn’t resist–three videos that make me cry Mama!
Dean Potter solos “The Nose” on El Capitan, almost all free. Height = 2900 feet. Average time to climb route = 5 days. He has climbed it in less than 4 HOURS (partnered), and this solo was a bit over 4.5 hours (I think). Check out the pendulum action. - YouTube
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
I just couldn’t resist–three videos that make me cry Mama!
Dean Potter solos “The Nose” on El Capitan, almost all free. Height = 2900 feet. Average time to climb route = 5 days. He has climbed it in less than 4 HOURS (partnered), and this solo was a bit over 4.5 hours (I think). Check out the pendulum action. - YouTube
oh man, i didnt even make it all the way through. when they showed the really long, steep (almost vertical) crack he was climbing at around 4:30 with nothing but blue sky and shher rock face all around him … oooggh, my stomach and nerves couldnt handle it. then he talked abotu how thin the rope was and swinging from it!!! thats when i had to turn it off
(just so nobody misunderstands, that is cool, no doubt.)
Yeah. But he didn’t die climbing! He died in November 1998 when the ropes he was using for a controlled free fall/bungee melted and snapped. The cause was never confirmed per se, but the investigators came to the conclusion that a last-second jump position change caused two ropes to cross and melt under the friction.
Edit: he was going for a world record free fall jump.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Yeah. But he didn’t die climbing! He died in November 1998 when the ropes he was using for a controlled free fall/bungee melted and snapped. The cause was never confirmed per se, but the investigators came to the conclusion that a last-second jump position change caused two ropes to cross and melt under the friction.
Edit: he was going for a world record free fall jump.[/quote]
Isn’t he the guy, or was it someone else, who would try to measure the bungee for length and stretch so precisely so that when he jumped the bungee would stop him merely a few feet short of hitting the ground? And ummm…he eventually mismeasured?
I’ve done top rope climbing, and that was enough to pull my nuts into my abdomen. I’ve seen guys on capitan in person (from the ground of course) - they’re fucking nuts.
Isn’t he the guy, or was it someone else, who would try to measure the bungee for length and stretch so precisely so that when he jumped the bungee would stop him merely a few feet short of hitting the ground? And ummm…he eventually mismeasured?
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Nope, I don’t think that’s him. There’ve been a number of crazy bungee guys.