Two brothers set record for longest highline ever walked in Yosemite National Park

KTLA ^ | Jun 19, 2021

[BenLurkin]

Earlier this month, they and a group of friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, 2,800-foot (853-meter)-long line from Taft Point west across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet (488 meters).

Moises and Daniel Monterrubio, brothers who are training to be rope-access technicians, had been thinking about crossing that void for a year.

Highlining is high-altitude slacklining, in which a narrow strip of strong, nylon webbing — usually an inch wide and a few millimeters thick — is strung between two anchor points and serves as a kind of balance beam.

Completing a line means carefully heel-toeing from one end to the other while wearing a waist-harness that links to a 3-inch steel ring around the webbing. In a fall, walkers remain attached, but they have to haul themselves back up to balance or shimmy back to an anchor point while dangling upside down.

[rktman]

Journalists.

[CharlesOConnell]

Helix Sports - For Education & Self-Reliance. John Taylor Gatto did indepdendent research to find what is taught by the ultra elite boarding schools, Groton, Episcopal High and others only the children of the oligarchs attend. Mr. Gatto found that, to enter the elite universities, this type of "Helix Sport", largely invented by the participants themselves, and often done solo, are one of the primary criteria for admission, along with other standards like "the active literacies" (writing and public speaking), public service and experience making coherent presentations to those in the highest positions.

[dainbramaged]

Just looking at that photo gives me the heebie jeebies.

[CharlesOConnell]

I doubt they are journalists. You can't be simply a talking head when you're walking a tightrope.

[PeterPrinciple]

Reminds me of all the activities during the great depression. What is the essence? trying to bring significance to a hopeless world and life.

[USAF1985]

Then you might want to stay away from the documentary “Free Solo.” First ascent of El Capitan with no ropes. There were points even the filmmaker refused to watch…he turned away. Great story though!

[glimmerman70]

There is a show on HBO about a group of friends that do this. They are crazy. Maybe the same group. They wear a safety line. But if the line breaks then it’s a long fall.

[cherry]

is there no video?

[Organic Panic]

Looks fun.

But shame on slack liners. Next time you go to a popular camp site or park pay attention to the trees. Slackline fools girdled hundreds of trees with their ratchet straps where I live.

[Thank You Rush]

“”they and a group of friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, 2,800-foot (853-meter)-long line from Taft Point west across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet (488 meters).””

HOW did they accomplish that?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reminds me of an old TV western show in which an acrobat is promised money to walk across a canyon on a wire.
Don’t remember if it was HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL or BAT MASTERSON, or some other western at that time.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Search “unicycle chimney romania” for a remarkable video from 2016. I have a fair head for heights, but I can hardly watch this.

[Hatteras]

I saw a preview for a show on Discovery Channel about this "sport"...

yeah, um, no thanks....

[FoxInSocks]

across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet (488 meters)

The height is irrelevant, since they’re tethered to the line and won’t fall to their deaths.

[glimmerman70]

You and me both. I will watch them be idiots but I would not even look over the edge of where they are at.

[bgill]

Next week they’ll have an accident and will risk the lives of rescuers. Idiots.

[Lisbon1940]

Similar to what Phil Petit did at the old Twin Towers.