Posted on 06/20/2021 7:52:41 AM PDT by 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.
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Journalists.
Just looking at that photo gives me the heebie jeebies.
Reminds me of all the activities during the great depression. What is the essence? trying to bring significance to a hopeless world and life.
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!
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.
is there no video?
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.
“”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?
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.
Search “unicycle chimney romania” for a remarkable video from 2016. I have a fair head for heights, but I can hardly watch this.
yeah, um, no thanks....
The height is irrelevant, since they’re tethered to the line and won’t fall to their deaths.
You and me both. I will watch them be idiots but I would not even look over the edge of where they are at.
Next week they’ll have an accident and will risk the lives of rescuers. Idiots.
Similar to what Phil Petit did at the old Twin Towers.
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