Badasses caught on camera

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:10 pm

Post them here.

I give you, Dan Osman.

400+ft, 04:25 minutes, no rope

by **Maugena** on Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:34 pm

He died on his second 1000 ft. jump (while he was supposedly going to retrieve his gear) because he couldn't resist doing it again.

The man seemed amazing.

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:22 pm

Maugena wrote:He died on his second 1000 ft. jump (while he was supposedly going to retrieve his gear) because he couldn't resist doing it again.

The man seemed amazing.

Yeah, the guy's a legend.

While Honnold and such are free soloing routes harder than he ever did, I've never seen anyone do a speedrun like that sprint up a cliff of his. Also, I've seen some interviews with him and he actually seems like a decent guy.

As far as I understand his death was due to the ropes having been left in the rain and him jumping on a slightly wrong trajectory that made two of the ropes cross and broke one of them.
It's funny that after all the free soloing he died with a rope tied to him ...

Anyway, here's another great video of him (at the end it has the sort of jump that eventually got him killed, also climbing a fucking waterfall).

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:15 pm

Let's go from sprint to marathon.

Ueli Steck speed climbs the Eiger, destroying the previous record in the process.

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:51 pm

Jeb Corliss

by **Symmetry** on Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:24 pm

This still gives me nightmares.

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:37 pm

Symmetry wrote:
This still gives me nightmares.

It seems pretty easy-going. You get a nice path which isn't slippery. You have a steel cable attached to the cliff which you link up to. And if the cement breaks away, there's always the steel beam to grab onto as you fall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... -5g8#t=59s

This seems a bit more worrisome.

by **Maugena** on Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:00 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5nlOdxZ ... ure=fvwrel
Splat, lol.

by **Haggis_McMutton** on Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:58 am

Maugena wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5nlOdxZt_4&feature=fvwrel
Splat, lol.

Here's a better video of the crash:

He really was crazy close to dying on that one. Only broke his legs though. He's now back to his usual antics.

by **MeDeFe** on Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:14 am

Symmetry wrote:
This still gives me nightmares.

I think that might be because the camera seems to be shifted a bit to the right, so it appears like the guy is walking with one foot on thin air. It's just a disconcerting perspective.