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An American free climber falls https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50592646 Deep down, these free climb guys surely realize that gravity is a law and will ultimately rule if they make the slightest mistake, don't they? Maybe this will be a wake up call to some of the others............ | ||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
"He was doing what he loved..." Until he screamed all the way to his death because he forgot to tie a knot.... | |||
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The title is a little misleading as he was certainly famous for free climbing but died coming down from a climb with the use of ropes. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Free climbing also uses ropes. Free soloing (which this guy apparently also did) uses no aids or ropes whatsoever. The thread title is accurate, but the title at the website is indeed a bit misleading. Brad Gobright: Free solo climber falls to his death ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Sounds like they got very careless with their equipment and procedures, making some incorrect assumptions, in what should have been the easy part of the climb. They were just rappelling down the rope at the end to get to the bottom. Certainly a lesson of two in there that parallels casual gun handling and "accidental" discharges. Complacency can kill you in many areas of life. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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+1. The margin of error doing that kind of shit is extremely small and the consequences of making a mistake are very large. | |||
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An article I read yesterday said they failed to secure a knot that would have prevented this. Naturally, I can't find that article. | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
He was at the end of his rope. | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
It appears to be a bit more than that. They were using a technique called "simul-rappeling", both men using a single rope with a single anchor, each man hanging on to each end. I understand it is far more dangerous, but it is supposed to be far quicker. If one man loses control of his end, the other man can fall without the counterbalance. Just reading about the technique, one can see there were numerous accidents and deaths using this. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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That is what he did for a living, getting paid by sponsorship?! Well…... Because son, it is what you are supposed to do. | |||
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... and breaking it can cause you to be grounded permanently. . | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
That’s a shame; sorry he lost his life. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Let's hope he didn't procreate. Gay free climbers. That's what the world needs. You guys know my view on this idiotic shit. They're throwing their lives away.. They slip off the rock. During their plummet, God appears before them and says "I'll give you a second chance, but you have to promise to stop doing this ridiculous stuff." Each and every one of them would agree. You know it's true. Idiots. Genuine idiots. You need EXTREME SPORTS to feel alive? You wanna know what really makes you feel not alive? Being dead, stupid. Thirty-one years old. These days, people are living into their nineties. This guy threw away - threw away- the potential of another 6 decades! What do you think he might have experienced in those 60+ years? But, oh, no, we have to behave recklessly just to feel alive. Genuine stupidity. The world tries to take your life each and every day. You don't need to help it out by behaving as if you're immortal. You're not immortal. You're a fragile bag of meat. Now, let's just wait for the EXTREME supporters to show up in this thread with their rationalizations. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
It's probability and statistics. You roll the dice long enough at high risk events with no safety precautions and eventually you are going to roll snake-eyes at the wrong time. | |||
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Yeah, that M14 video guy... |
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
The pair had misjudged how much rope was left beneath them, according to Jacobson – who was left with only a broken ankle from his fall. He claimed Gobright slipped off the end of his side of the rope after failing to tie life-saving stopper knots in it – which would have been a guide to how much he had left to rappel down. Gobright slipped from his side of the rope causing Jacobson, who was strapped to the other side, to also plunge, according to the surviving climber. https://celebritywshow.com/wor...climber-die-the-sun/ | |||
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I was almost killed in a climbing accident whenI was 16. The guy next to me was killed, I watched him fall to his death. Some of you making jokes of this are might light of a difficult experience. -c1steve | |||
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Complacency kills. I guess they didn't bother to check each other's gear before each rappel. | |||
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delicately calloused |
In his case, what he loved did him.... You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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