Speed Climbing

Video quality is not th?t good, but you'll get the picture:

http://www.fugly.com/media/MOVIES/AMAZING/Speed_Climbing.wmv

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

That's insane. I have a hard time believing it's real.

That guy is crazy. He did it without any safety restraint.

Pure madness.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

I've seen this one before. Think this one is real, here's a link to an article about his life and death:

http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html

I love it when he jumps at 01:12.

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Even though he gave his life for the love of his sport, I am happy for him. He died doing what he loved, and he loved it a lot--probably a lot more than any one of us would ever love doing something.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

This man climbs like an animal.

Perhaps he was bitten by a radioactive spider?

Das crazy!

i saw something like this the last year in a tv show... Guinness World Records.

the poor guy died.

this one's crazy too. uh they have no life?

That guy climbs like ME! Actually I'd never climb that high without a restraint, but one of my nicknames was "squirrel-boy" Because I climbed the cliff face at "big-e" in like 2 minutes. It's about 50yds, so it was a pretty good height. You then went down a wee bit and jumped off into the lake below. I was told to squeeze my cheeks together or the water pressure from jumping that high up would explode my interstines.

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In the first video, there are multiple shots... like from the side,
above, and eventually zooming out completely. It may just be the
s**tty video quality but I couldn't see any cameramen hanging from the
rocks...

It could just be a long telephots... I believe it. Climbing fast is actually easier than climbing slowly if you know the route. You wast a lot of energy hanging around trying to figure out what to do, and he obviously had the route memorized. on the protection note, no belayer could ever keep up with a climber that fast...and no rope is 400 feet long, so there is no way he could have done it in one go except to forgo protection.

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

...and no rope is 400 feet long, so there is no way he could have done it in one go except to forgo protection.

On my last caving expedition, we had at least one rope that was 650 feet long.

Yeh, why wouldn't there be any 400 ft-ropes ?

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

It's like Cat-5 ethernet cable. After 400ft u start getting data errors...

And when Fatstrings and his brother and GF and I went caving we had some that was longer than 400 I'm pretty sure..

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

Long ropes are manufactured to exactly the same quality as short ropes.
Rope-making used to be limited by the length of the production floor,
but modern methods allow ropes to be made with perfect accuracy to any
length.

The only problem with using very long ropes is that they get too bouncy
at the bottom. But this can be solved by adding rebelays, which
have the added advantage of allowing more than one person on the rope
at once.

Eh... I've never seen a dynamic rope for sale that was more than 60m long. I suppose you could special order one though. Don't you use mostly static lines for caving?

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

I use an env_beam, with sprites/rope.spr, rendermode Solid.

baboom-tisk

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

Eh... I've never seen a dynamic rope for sale that was more than
60m long. I suppose you could special order one though. Don't you use
mostly static lines for caving?

Yes. Cavers use only static ropes, except for personal shock-cord which is dynamic.

I suppose the problem with very long dynamic ropes is that they will
stretch so much that, by the time you stop falling, you've already
smacked into a cliff face at high speed.

In other words, there's nothing to stop you ordering a 200m dynamic rope, but it would not be useful!

the link that otzman posted also tells the story of the death of one of the climber guys pals, who used a long rope to arrest his fall without pre-streaching it by doing some small drops first. needless to say, gollums description of what happens next is pretty accurate. they called it pilot error. :/

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