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2007-04-27 3:34 PM

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Any speed climbers out there???  (work safe, although you may get a bit nauseous if you don't like heights....)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3966628180313281816

2007-04-27 3:39 PM
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Elite
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Two things ...

1. Uh ... thanks ... now I'm nauseous.

and

2. I'm too accustomed to COJ humor ... I was expecting a pic of a pile of Pontiff Poo.
2007-04-27 3:43 PM
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Master
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Holy cow...at what point in his day did he decide THAT was a good idea?
2007-04-27 3:53 PM
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that is f*cking crazy!  I hope rock climbing is the next sport I try, but never to that level. 
2007-04-27 3:55 PM
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i really like the part where he jump to the next hand hold, oh my freakin god!!!!!
2007-04-27 3:59 PM
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Champion
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Dude is like Spiderman

I showed this video to a Co-Worker who is a climber and he was just stunned. (Totally different level than what he climbs at I guess)

2007-04-27 4:02 PM
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Champion
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This looks like a cool DVD... but some (most) of the shots scare the cr@p out of me. 

'First Ascent' Trailer

2007-04-27 4:03 PM
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Master
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in the words of my 6yr old son "Oh My Goodness, that's high"

2007-04-27 4:08 PM
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I googled this guy.  Excellent read...predictable outcome.

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

2007-04-27 4:13 PM
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morey1 - 2007-04-27 2:08 PM

I googled this guy.  Excellent read...predictable outcome.

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

Wow, I'm saving that to read this weekend, thanks for the follow up info

edit - actually, reading the first paragraph reminds me that I read this in my copy of the mag.  sad.  stupid, but sad.



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2007-04-27 4:51 PM
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Champion
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Oh, he IS the same guy

Yeah that was very sad.

2007-04-27 5:35 PM
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Elite
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That really is sad.
2007-04-28 9:49 AM
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COURT JESTER
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Ummmm....No Thank You.
2007-04-28 11:31 AM
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Your title summed up what I thought of it!
2007-04-28 12:36 PM
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He makes it look so easy I almost think I could do it.......almost
2007-04-28 1:04 PM
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I used to climb.  No ropes for climbers is so much worse than no helmet for cyclists.  I used to get really nervous when people would act stupid on the rocks.


Edited by tsmith 2007-04-28 1:05 PM

2007-04-28 3:31 PM
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Wow...extremely impressed with the confidence and ability to be perfect at what he does, but the margin of error = his life.  (wrote this before scrolling down and seeing the link re: his death...as noted above, too predictable)

Thanks, but no thanks.



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2007-04-28 3:40 PM
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Cool vid, but this guy died doing a different sport, one that he really shaped, and in many was, was actually "safer" than what he's doing in this video.

Fascinating biography (it may have been a combination post-humus autobiography/biography I forget).

Getting inside his mind via the book was pretty wicked and gives you some understanding why he did this stuff. He would have imploded/exploded/become psychotic/committed suicide/homicide without this outlet.

I would never do it, but more power to them that do.

Impressive climb in any case. Those moves are fun, but not 400 feet off the ground. 10 feet of the ground yes, 400, no. Not without a rope.
2007-04-29 4:57 PM
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I slip off the walls on 5.7 climbs... let alone do it quickly.
2007-04-29 8:32 PM
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I can't imagine having the physical strength and mental quickness that it must take to do something like that.  If I did, I hope I had the intelligence not to do it.   Like adventurbear said, 10 feet it would be fun, 400 feet....NFW!   Very sorry to hear the postscript to this story....

2007-04-30 10:43 AM
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Looks like an ad for Bad Idea jeans...

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