Conquer Club

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I give you, Dan Osman.


400+ft, 04:25 minutes, no rope

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.

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).

Let's go from sprint to marathon.

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

Jeb Corliss

This still gives me nightmares.

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.

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

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.

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.