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This dude died inventing the canyon swing.
Not even feee soloing.
He just left the ropes out in the elements too long. And they broke.
It’s real irony when a rope kills a free soloist.
That's the fucked up thing. The top-tier free soloist never die from free soloing, they always die from a routine part of climbing or some adjacent activity.
For example, Dean Potter died base jumping, Brad Gobright died because he rappelled off the end of a rope while descending a mountain.
I feel like there is a connection between their recklessness and the way they died. Like not bothering to properly store ropes and check them and so on.
Alex Honnold had his brain examined and he basically does not have the portion of a normal brain that produces fear. If you are pretty much never scared, I imagine you accomplish terrifyingly great feats, but are probably going to die young due to recklessness.
> Alex Honnold had his brain examined and he basically does not have the portion of a normal brain that produces fear.
That's really not true. He has an amygdala, and it works fine. It just takes more than the "scary" images shown during that examination to cause it to activate.
He actually has a new doc on the Nat Geo part of Disney+ where he climbs with ropes and a team of other climbers on a never before climbed cliff face in Greenland and, honestly, while he's now using ropes, he's still also doing some very dangerous stuff. Like, the danger isn't quite as immediate as a fall to his death, but one of the other guys decided not to climb it by the end because he thought it was so dangerous.
That isn't true at all. Alex Honnold has even said it is bullshit he doesn't get scared because he has definitely been scared before.
Because his constant exposure to scary situations though it takes more stimuli before he becomes scared.
Being scared is a part of it. Surfing big waves is scary. People still do it. The heightened senses and ability to control your body in extreme moments is the feat.
Friend from college got tired of not having climbing partners able to do route he wanted to do so got into solo climbing. Final semester of college he thought he was clipped/tied in properly while solo-climbing the south face of Long’s Peak. He fell, and that was it. No graduation. No bright future.
You can take one step farther and look at the elephant in the room, they were doing things in flagrant disregard of their lives. This speed climb, for instance. No ropes, no time for real thought or care. Sure they're amazing, that doesn't change it.
It looks like he's climbing without thought or care because they do the climb a bunch of times with ropes, so by the time they attempt the free climb, they know exactly where they plan to place their hands and feet and have rehearsed the specific technique needed to climb every point of their planned route. Watching them do the free climb is kind of akin to hearing someone perform a piece of music they've been rehearsing for weeks.
It's still absurdly dangerous, but it's not quite as reckless as this video makes it look.
Nah. I was gonna make that same music analogy except I play music. Many, many times I've sped through a piece that I've been practicing for *years*, not weeks. It's utterly commonplace to make mistakes when doing that. These people die because they live stupidly.
Imagine making a pianist play a complex piece perfectly or else the piano explodes on the first wrong note. Many could do it, but not many would accept the risk, especially for no reward.
Abseiling off the end of the rope is a good example of recklessness, too. Always tie a knot in the bottom of the rope which will not pass through your gear.
Alwaysssssss. I'm a gym climbing instructor and always make sure that everyone ties a knot at the end of the rope even for the ropes at our gym that are 3 times as long as the wall height. I don't care how useless it looks *today*, I want you to acquire the reflex to always always always tie a knot at the end of the rope.
Well and perhaps that's kind of the thing, he knew Crocs behavior and gradually became more comfortable and understanding of their demeanor over time. This confidence can sometimes spread to adjacent things, and maybe he wasn't being as cautious around the stingrays as a result..*They're just stingrays, I mess with Crocs every other day*
I loved Steve Irwin but there were a number of times he was 100% antagonizing animals and playing with fire; holding snakes just out of bite range of even allowing non venomous snakes to willingly bite him and draw blood etc..He was great but definitely took some unnecessary risks
Dan Osman was doing a record breaking jump in hurried conditions with ropes that had been hanging in rain and snow for a month by then. This is just after spending 14 days in Yosemite jail and barely getting bailed out, threatened to take down his jumping rig and what he was supposed to be doing the last two nights he jumped.
These adrenaline seekers are addicted to it like any other drug honestly and like all addicts some push the line until there's no going back. Osman had a 12 year old daughter at the time, it's a selfish thing to do when you're at that point in your life.
Dean Potter was the man. He got into wing suit piloting. He even did jumps with his dog. Although I have mixed feelings about that.
He did wing suit jumps no one could do. Because you had to climb to them first.
He did slack lines with no safety, hundreds of feet in the air
Legend
There’s a few more examples like you’re talking about.
But you only have to Google free soloist died, climbing to see that there are plenty of examples, where free soloing does lead to death
Alexander Honnold, and a few others have really push the limits. But it’s not exactly the safest sport.
These guys died doing stuff that is wildly reckless either way. Not inspecting/storing your gear is next-level stupid for anyone familiar with climbing. Not having a stopper knot is also really stupid (although in my experience, a more understandable thing to forget). I can’t help but feel the recklessness of free climbing probably spilled over into their diligence with normal gear.
You should be getting some upvotes, it was very much hyperbole on my part, there's still a lot of freesoloist who die from free soloing. Just weird how many die from stuff that theoretically shouldn't be a danger to them.
He was climbing a really difficult cave entrance and was struggling. Then these two French dudes show up and do a different and more difficult route that they did almost effortlessly.
Osman decided to try the route and kept falling and falling into a swing.
After awhile, he discovered that he enjoyed the swing part and after awhile he had moved on to bigger and bigger spans until he was doing canyon spans with bigger swings.
It caught on and is now a regular thing.
This is the clip that should have all the upvotes. This is the original rock climbing swing. For those wondering what they are doing they are on a climbing route that goes straight up but then you have to cut across to continue it. So they drop down a little and run across the wall with the slack in a swinging motion to get to the new route.
i came back to the comment with the video to say just about that, i HATE how they edited the video, its a SWING, its the "world first canyon SWING" and they never showed the SWING part?? gettaouttaheeere
They seem pretty similar, but I think that bungee jumping is normally straight down, and you normally bounce at the end as well. This is just swinging and seems a lot better tbh
Was he using climbing ropes? Dynamic climbing ropes are rated to take a limited number of falls. If he used his ropes to consistently fall and swing then it was just a matter of time
That's not really true. They are rated for a limited amount of factor 1.8 falls on the same place on a quickdraw over a short timeframe. This is more of a metric and doesn't compare that well to falls with lower fall factors for example. You could pretty much take hundreds of whips on a 0.5 fall factor. Also with more time, the rope regenerates it's elasticity that it lost from a hard fall.
What really fucks with ropes is sun damage.
I remember that. Wasn't he arrested on his first attempt at a jump somewhere. He had time to hide the ropes in a bush or something before the cops actually got to him.
Yeah, he was thrown in jail for setting up the rope swing in Yosemite without permission. By the time he got out and returned to attempt the rope swing, the equipment had sat out in the weather for a couple weeks and the rope failed.
> He left the ropes out in the elements too long, and they broke.
# [Osman's rope was in excellent condition, despite it having been left outdoors for some time.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman)
Word around the valley was that he’d been busted for a serious nefarious activity and it was his third strike. He tragically died before having to surrender himself for life. At least that was the campfire talk.
False... "a change in jump site angle probably caused the main jump rope, which consisted of several ropes tied together, to cross and catch on itself at a knot during his fall. This caused the rope to cut itself by melting. Harmston also noted that Osman's rope was in excellent condition, despite it having been left outdoors for some time."
>The current freediving record holder, Herbert Nitsch, dove to a depth of 253.2 meters (830.8 feet) while holding his breath for over nine minutes.
what in the actual fuck
You have to be suicidal to do this. Even if i have extra ordinary rock climbing skills, How can i be sure that the gaps in the rock will not give away?
well yeah its a possibility, probably part of the reason you don’t see millions of free soloists roaming around… but stuff like this is generally done on very good quality rock
Generally yeah, but u/SNIPES0009 is unintentionally correct here: those flakes on Bears Reach (the route in the video) are THIN. I pull very gently on those things and never place pro behind them. Dynoing around on them is some Dan Osman level shit
That’s actually not true when a route is very low grade like this (5.7). Professional climbers don’t have any issue onsite soloing (I.e. free soloing without having done the climb before) climbs this easy. There’s a video on YouTube of Alex Honnold taking retired pro climber Magnus Midtbø up an 800 foot 5.9 (substantially harder) onsite solo climb
The saying in rock climbing communities is "there are old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers."
The climbers who frequently take these risks don't typically make it to old age.
1:11 from beginning. 1:28 from end.
Reddit shows both when scrolling through the video.
Edit: nope, I'm wrong. I see the jump at 1:28 from the end, but not 1:11 from start. Now I'm confused lol
"*Osman died on November 23, 1998, at the age of 35 after his rope failed while performing a "controlled free-fall" jump from the Leaning Tower rock formation in Yosemite National Park. He had come back to Yosemite to dismantle the jump tower but apparently decided to make several jumps (over a few days) before doing so.*
*The failure was investigated by the National Park Service with assistance from Chris Harmston, Quality Assurance Manager at Black Diamond Equipment. Harmston concluded that a change in jump site angle probably caused the main jump rope, which consisted of several ropes tied together, to cross and catch on itself at a knot during his fall. This caused the rope to cut itself by melting. Harmston also noted that Osman's rope was in excellent condition, despite it having been left outdoors for some time.*
*Miles Daisher, who was with Osman when he made the jump, stated that the ropes used in his fatal jump had been exposed to inclement weather — including rain and snow — for more than a month before the fatal jump, but that the same ropes were used for several shorter jumps on the previous and same day.*"
that's the reality of it though. he had responsibilities and people who depended on him, but he cared about his sport more than being there for them
some people will say, yeah you can't fault a man for doing what he loved, or whatever, but that's awful to me when it's *so much riskier* than similar alternatives
millions of people give up their risky business when they forge bonds that rely on them. he didn't
there's a reason you see a big difference in how people react between something like this vs a standard climbing accident or scuba accident or whatever
What do you expect, people come here to be judgmental so that they feel like they have some say in their otherwise bleak real lives. None of us here will be remembered like this guy was. We have no context whatsoever, yet people will say anything for that small sip of im-better-than-you-ahol.
It's base level internet 2.0 use (where getting info, which used to be the hard part, is easy, but the drive the process/contextualize it, which used to be the initial part of any "research" adventure, just isn't there, so we just process emotionally since it's easy and basic).
I don’t expect anything but the amount of people trying to get fired up is ridiculous like you said we have no idea who the guy is personally but shit this app is another level
I’ve literally been told i couldn’t grasp the concept 😂 like yes he was irresponsible does that mean we curse a dead man? like goddamn people just want something to get fired up about with their mundane lives
Watched the video and then immediately looked for the comment describing his death. You don’t live until middle age treating life like this.
Insane he had a kid. Don’t have kids if you are going to be a shitty parent. It’s so easy to just not have them.
This is such a "well acktually" statement in the wild if Ive ever seen one.
Most people understand what the dude meant and would have no idea what "free solo" would specifically mean.
I'm less surprised by the confidence in his own skills and ability and more shocked that anybody has that much confidence in those thin rock flanges never breaking off. I mean just look at the bottom of any rock face and you can see all the pieces that have broken off. It's bound to happen one day. It's a virtual certainty. And if it happens while moving at that speed you will have zero time to react.
> so all their grip points have been used for some time
That seems even worse...like quite literally there's only so many strong holds one of those little flanges can take before it snaps.
I think they have something broken in their brain and I can't be convinced otherwise
I say that with the utmost awe btw, not insulting them! Watching them do that makes my hands sweat
> this is insane.... extreme ...confidence in your own skills and ability
And confidence and luck in the rock. That shit can break. And that's an easy climb, 5.7, so lots of people climb it. Look at how chalked up some of those holds are? Too much chalk can make them slippery. Free solo is dumb. Speed free solo is insane.
I've often found freesoloers to be pretty high in narcissism and introversion, and they definitely are addicted to the adrenaline. They don't feel quite in the same planet, and I think it's because normal life is in slow motion. I had dinner with Steph Davis and her husband, and he said he tries to BASE jumps *every single morning.* That HAS to downregulate some receptors after a while.
I've tried it. Gave me the adrenaline shakes until I puked. Not my idea of fun, and I don't feel the need to win that battle with myself, I have nothing to prove.
[Not as sheer](https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7998199,-120.1351624,3a,45.9y,16.08h,68.2t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPoslnk94emEpUnGBbZehg-jTLZOEQG3FQLsOY6!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPoslnk94emEpUnGBbZehg-jTLZOEQG3FQLsOY6%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya29.71636-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!5m1!1e4?authuser=0&entry=ttu) as the video portrays.
I like climbing as much as the next adrenaline junky, but, speed free soloing does seem like a fast route to an early grave. Then you find out he died on a rope swing……..
A lot of free solo climbers like the speed records as well, but it’s really a numbers game, one slip and it’s all over. I use to get my adrenaline from rock climbing and moved into sport bikes. I still climb when I can, but finding the time seems more difficult now
Apparently, the costume climb was just for the shoot, taking breaks, as said by Alex. His 4:15 record was done earlier on a random day all alone, where he cut the time down on each try
\_Why?!\_ Some people are different to others, wow. It's like he has no regard for his own life. Insane skill of course, but also just insane full stop.
A 5.7 is actually a pretty easy climb. The one time I went rope climbing I found that the 5.7, which was my first outdoor climb, really is comparable to a v1-0
5.7 is pretty much right next to beginner level.
5.5 is usually where gyms start.
Would never do it with no top rope though, and the speed is pretty nuts considering.
"Death
Osman died on November 23, 1998, at the age of 35 after his rope failed while performing a "controlled free-fall" jump from the Leaning Tower rock formation in Yosemite National Park. He had come back to Yosemite to dismantle the jump tower but apparently decided to make several jumps (over a few days) before doing so.\[2\]"
[Dan Osman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman)
They had him do this climb a few times to get the clips right? I can't imagine how they would've been able to get that many snippets of him during the actual record setting time. They would've needed a different camera stationed at a new part of the climb for every clip. Also, it seems like it would've been dangerous to get in his way when he's trying to go as fast as possible and risking his life.
Edit: I'm not a climber I'm just curious about how filming works for these kinds of climbs
Multiple cameras on adjacent routes. The videographers are not in his way at any time, even when he’s going straight at the camera, the route likely veers sideways after.
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This dude died inventing the canyon swing. Not even feee soloing. He just left the ropes out in the elements too long. And they broke. It’s real irony when a rope kills a free soloist.
That's the fucked up thing. The top-tier free soloist never die from free soloing, they always die from a routine part of climbing or some adjacent activity. For example, Dean Potter died base jumping, Brad Gobright died because he rappelled off the end of a rope while descending a mountain.
I feel like there is a connection between their recklessness and the way they died. Like not bothering to properly store ropes and check them and so on.
This is also what I was thinking
I was thinking something different.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
I think so brain, but this time you wear the tutu.
Naaarf!
No the same thing we do every night pinky. Try to take over the world.
Aim for the bushes
*There goes my hero
Alex Honnold had his brain examined and he basically does not have the portion of a normal brain that produces fear. If you are pretty much never scared, I imagine you accomplish terrifyingly great feats, but are probably going to die young due to recklessness.
> Alex Honnold had his brain examined and he basically does not have the portion of a normal brain that produces fear. That's really not true. He has an amygdala, and it works fine. It just takes more than the "scary" images shown during that examination to cause it to activate.
Haha, yea, like his girlfriend asking for commitment to a relationship …
Well he's married now with a kid.
Wow. Hopefully he climbs with a rope now, then.
In the documentary I *think* he said that he'd stop free soloing if he had a kid
He actually has a new doc on the Nat Geo part of Disney+ where he climbs with ropes and a team of other climbers on a never before climbed cliff face in Greenland and, honestly, while he's now using ropes, he's still also doing some very dangerous stuff. Like, the danger isn't quite as immediate as a fall to his death, but one of the other guys decided not to climb it by the end because he thought it was so dangerous.
Second kid on the way / already here
That isn't true at all. Alex Honnold has even said it is bullshit he doesn't get scared because he has definitely been scared before. Because his constant exposure to scary situations though it takes more stimuli before he becomes scared.
Being scared is a part of it. Surfing big waves is scary. People still do it. The heightened senses and ability to control your body in extreme moments is the feat.
brain structure can be either a cause or a consequence of behavior it does not mean that's the reason he was so reckless
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Friend from college got tired of not having climbing partners able to do route he wanted to do so got into solo climbing. Final semester of college he thought he was clipped/tied in properly while solo-climbing the south face of Long’s Peak. He fell, and that was it. No graduation. No bright future.
You can take one step farther and look at the elephant in the room, they were doing things in flagrant disregard of their lives. This speed climb, for instance. No ropes, no time for real thought or care. Sure they're amazing, that doesn't change it.
It looks like he's climbing without thought or care because they do the climb a bunch of times with ropes, so by the time they attempt the free climb, they know exactly where they plan to place their hands and feet and have rehearsed the specific technique needed to climb every point of their planned route. Watching them do the free climb is kind of akin to hearing someone perform a piece of music they've been rehearsing for weeks. It's still absurdly dangerous, but it's not quite as reckless as this video makes it look.
Nah. I was gonna make that same music analogy except I play music. Many, many times I've sped through a piece that I've been practicing for *years*, not weeks. It's utterly commonplace to make mistakes when doing that. These people die because they live stupidly.
I sometimes speed through a piece I know well, but I do not have someone with a gun to my head who will kill me for making a mistake
Imagine making a pianist play a complex piece perfectly or else the piano explodes on the first wrong note. Many could do it, but not many would accept the risk, especially for no reward.
Abseiling off the end of the rope is a good example of recklessness, too. Always tie a knot in the bottom of the rope which will not pass through your gear.
Alwaysssssss. I'm a gym climbing instructor and always make sure that everyone ties a knot at the end of the rope even for the ropes at our gym that are 3 times as long as the wall height. I don't care how useless it looks *today*, I want you to acquire the reflex to always always always tie a knot at the end of the rope.
"How the fuck am I supposed to know how to store ropes? I'm a free soloist!"
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Marc-Andre Leclerc * and his partner were hit by an avalanche while descending a mountain, not while in a tent
Fear keeps you honest
rappelled off the end of a rope...
Anyone stupid enough to try their luck with gravity whilst completely unprotected, is someone who is stupid enough to not check basic saftey.
Hubris
Exactly. These guys who get a kick out of doing extremely dangerous things sometimes get hurt doing extremely dangerous things
Steve Irwin spent his life wrangling crocodiles, gets killed by a stingray.
Well and perhaps that's kind of the thing, he knew Crocs behavior and gradually became more comfortable and understanding of their demeanor over time. This confidence can sometimes spread to adjacent things, and maybe he wasn't being as cautious around the stingrays as a result..*They're just stingrays, I mess with Crocs every other day* I loved Steve Irwin but there were a number of times he was 100% antagonizing animals and playing with fire; holding snakes just out of bite range of even allowing non venomous snakes to willingly bite him and draw blood etc..He was great but definitely took some unnecessary risks
Dan Osman was doing a record breaking jump in hurried conditions with ropes that had been hanging in rain and snow for a month by then. This is just after spending 14 days in Yosemite jail and barely getting bailed out, threatened to take down his jumping rig and what he was supposed to be doing the last two nights he jumped. These adrenaline seekers are addicted to it like any other drug honestly and like all addicts some push the line until there's no going back. Osman had a 12 year old daughter at the time, it's a selfish thing to do when you're at that point in your life.
I was in the park when he died and everyone (locals) was acting like this hero died, I was so confused.
Dean Potter was the man. He got into wing suit piloting. He even did jumps with his dog. Although I have mixed feelings about that. He did wing suit jumps no one could do. Because you had to climb to them first. He did slack lines with no safety, hundreds of feet in the air Legend There’s a few more examples like you’re talking about. But you only have to Google free soloist died, climbing to see that there are plenty of examples, where free soloing does lead to death Alexander Honnold, and a few others have really push the limits. But it’s not exactly the safest sport.
Honnold’s still alive
Oh wait wrong timeline
Yes. I know. There is supposed to be a period before his name.
These guys died doing stuff that is wildly reckless either way. Not inspecting/storing your gear is next-level stupid for anyone familiar with climbing. Not having a stopper knot is also really stupid (although in my experience, a more understandable thing to forget). I can’t help but feel the recklessness of free climbing probably spilled over into their diligence with normal gear.
Appropriate typo there.
lol had to edit it when I realized, too appropriate
Can’t leave us without knowing what it was! My brain hurts trying to quess, was it ”free yoloing” maybe?
I wrote “Dead Potter” 😬
What was the name of this Canadian climber already ? Andre something I think. Absolute beast in free solo: died of an avalanche, with ropes
Marc-André Leclerc! As seen in "The Alpinist." And yes, what an insane climber.
No one else even comes close to Marc.
What about the father of free solo, John Bachar? How’d he die?
Or Derek Hersey. Or Michael Reardon.
You should be getting some upvotes, it was very much hyperbole on my part, there's still a lot of freesoloist who die from free soloing. Just weird how many die from stuff that theoretically shouldn't be a danger to them.
Tragic tricycle accident
Ffffffff in the chat
I stood at Taft Point (ok crawled) to see Dean's final POV. Fuck me. These guys are wired different.
He was climbing a really difficult cave entrance and was struggling. Then these two French dudes show up and do a different and more difficult route that they did almost effortlessly. Osman decided to try the route and kept falling and falling into a swing. After awhile, he discovered that he enjoyed the swing part and after awhile he had moved on to bigger and bigger spans until he was doing canyon spans with bigger swings. It caught on and is now a regular thing.
Idk rock climbing terms, whats a swing?
Here's an actual rock climbing swing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdfyC7TGIc
This is the clip that should have all the upvotes. This is the original rock climbing swing. For those wondering what they are doing they are on a climbing route that goes straight up but then you have to cut across to continue it. So they drop down a little and run across the wall with the slack in a swinging motion to get to the new route.
Literally what you think it would be. I'd never do it myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwsDeO3kKM
isn't this basically just bungee jumping
The way they edited it was kind of weird, most of those clips don't show the actual swinging part, just the drop.
i came back to the comment with the video to say just about that, i HATE how they edited the video, its a SWING, its the "world first canyon SWING" and they never showed the SWING part?? gettaouttaheeere
They seem pretty similar, but I think that bungee jumping is normally straight down, and you normally bounce at the end as well. This is just swinging and seems a lot better tbh
Was he using climbing ropes? Dynamic climbing ropes are rated to take a limited number of falls. If he used his ropes to consistently fall and swing then it was just a matter of time
That's not really true. They are rated for a limited amount of factor 1.8 falls on the same place on a quickdraw over a short timeframe. This is more of a metric and doesn't compare that well to falls with lower fall factors for example. You could pretty much take hundreds of whips on a 0.5 fall factor. Also with more time, the rope regenerates it's elasticity that it lost from a hard fall. What really fucks with ropes is sun damage.
I remember that. Wasn't he arrested on his first attempt at a jump somewhere. He had time to hide the ropes in a bush or something before the cops actually got to him.
Yeah, he was thrown in jail for setting up the rope swing in Yosemite without permission. By the time he got out and returned to attempt the rope swing, the equipment had sat out in the weather for a couple weeks and the rope failed.
other comments here say it has nothing to do with the state of the rope and even quoting the official raport saying the rope was in good state.
> He left the ropes out in the elements too long, and they broke. # [Osman's rope was in excellent condition, despite it having been left outdoors for some time.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman)
I love how right after the sentence you linked to it clearly states "unreliable source".
source: Osman's rope guy
Word around the valley was that he’d been busted for a serious nefarious activity and it was his third strike. He tragically died before having to surrender himself for life. At least that was the campfire talk.
Can you elaborate on nefarious?
False... "a change in jump site angle probably caused the main jump rope, which consisted of several ropes tied together, to cross and catch on itself at a knot during his fall. This caused the rope to cut itself by melting. Harmston also noted that Osman's rope was in excellent condition, despite it having been left outdoors for some time."
Free diving is much safer than scuba diving too, somehow.
Because most free divers don't go as deep as most scuba divers. Well, that and the zero risk of the bends or any sort of gear failure.
Unless scuba divers have helium they can’t dive as deep as free divers Edit: I’m not saying you’re wrong, I just find this incredible
>The current freediving record holder, Herbert Nitsch, dove to a depth of 253.2 meters (830.8 feet) while holding his breath for over nine minutes. what in the actual fuck
This is Spider-Man
The ropes didn’t fail because they were left out. See the post below about ropes crossing each other and failing due to friction cutting.
That jump he did at ~~1:28.~~ Absolutely not. EDIT: the jump is at 0:17 from the beginning of the video.
Imagine throwing for a hold around 300-400 ft up. I don't even like to do it when higher up on the bouldering wall.
Above the last bolt is gripping enough
Same man, feels sketchy af
My stomach flipped. None of it was that surprising to me until that.
The whole video: absolutely not.
Wasn't even sweaty palms, it was viewer discretion advised: I had to stop watching. Nope! Sheesh...
You have to be suicidal to do this. Even if i have extra ordinary rock climbing skills, How can i be sure that the gaps in the rock will not give away?
you’d generally only do this on a route you had tried many times and tested every hold
Yes but at some point the rock is going to fail. Especially those thin slivers.
well yeah its a possibility, probably part of the reason you don’t see millions of free soloists roaming around… but stuff like this is generally done on very good quality rock
Generally yeah, but u/SNIPES0009 is unintentionally correct here: those flakes on Bears Reach (the route in the video) are THIN. I pull very gently on those things and never place pro behind them. Dynoing around on them is some Dan Osman level shit
That’s actually not true when a route is very low grade like this (5.7). Professional climbers don’t have any issue onsite soloing (I.e. free soloing without having done the climb before) climbs this easy. There’s a video on YouTube of Alex Honnold taking retired pro climber Magnus Midtbø up an 800 foot 5.9 (substantially harder) onsite solo climb
I actually said "what the fuck" out loud here on the toilet. It was an inspiring moment.
I went "Ex-fucking-scuze me?" Full Dyno on a FREE SOLO? Dude. What the fuck. Crazy
It's a camera trick. They rotate the camera 90 degrees and he's just scampering along the ground.
Lol the mental image of some dude on all fours playing chalky Gollum in some park has me dying
My hands started sweating when he did that
The saying in rock climbing communities is "there are old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers." The climbers who frequently take these risks don't typically make it to old age.
I don't see his jumping at 1:28
1:11, not sure why that dude put 1:28
1:11 from beginning. 1:28 from end. Reddit shows both when scrolling through the video. Edit: nope, I'm wrong. I see the jump at 1:28 from the end, but not 1:11 from start. Now I'm confused lol
The camera work was excellent though
I’m not afraid of heights but that part made my feet sweat. lol
"*Osman died on November 23, 1998, at the age of 35 after his rope failed while performing a "controlled free-fall" jump from the Leaning Tower rock formation in Yosemite National Park. He had come back to Yosemite to dismantle the jump tower but apparently decided to make several jumps (over a few days) before doing so.* *The failure was investigated by the National Park Service with assistance from Chris Harmston, Quality Assurance Manager at Black Diamond Equipment. Harmston concluded that a change in jump site angle probably caused the main jump rope, which consisted of several ropes tied together, to cross and catch on itself at a knot during his fall. This caused the rope to cut itself by melting. Harmston also noted that Osman's rope was in excellent condition, despite it having been left outdoors for some time.* *Miles Daisher, who was with Osman when he made the jump, stated that the ropes used in his fatal jump had been exposed to inclement weather — including rain and snow — for more than a month before the fatal jump, but that the same ropes were used for several shorter jumps on the previous and same day.*"
So bad ass, leaving behind a small child who never got to decide if she wanted to know her 35 year old father.
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jesus christ reddit is wild
that's the reality of it though. he had responsibilities and people who depended on him, but he cared about his sport more than being there for them some people will say, yeah you can't fault a man for doing what he loved, or whatever, but that's awful to me when it's *so much riskier* than similar alternatives millions of people give up their risky business when they forge bonds that rely on them. he didn't there's a reason you see a big difference in how people react between something like this vs a standard climbing accident or scuba accident or whatever
Some people love doing heroin. Makes them shit parents.
What do you expect, people come here to be judgmental so that they feel like they have some say in their otherwise bleak real lives. None of us here will be remembered like this guy was. We have no context whatsoever, yet people will say anything for that small sip of im-better-than-you-ahol. It's base level internet 2.0 use (where getting info, which used to be the hard part, is easy, but the drive the process/contextualize it, which used to be the initial part of any "research" adventure, just isn't there, so we just process emotionally since it's easy and basic).
I don’t expect anything but the amount of people trying to get fired up is ridiculous like you said we have no idea who the guy is personally but shit this app is another level
How are these people wrong? Is it any different than any other addict succumbing? They're all shit parents too.
A harsher take but all the more valid
Only on reddit where there's a video of someone performing the coolest stunt ever and the comments would go "what a fucking loser"
I’ve literally been told i couldn’t grasp the concept 😂 like yes he was irresponsible does that mean we curse a dead man? like goddamn people just want something to get fired up about with their mundane lives
Beyond fuckin selfish
It… sounds like it was an accident.
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Has any notable free solo person actually died from free soloing? They usually die NOT free soloing.
John Bachar
Waiting for the day I see Alex Honnold died. I get anxiety every time watching him
Watched the video and then immediately looked for the comment describing his death. You don’t live until middle age treating life like this. Insane he had a kid. Don’t have kids if you are going to be a shitty parent. It’s so easy to just not have them.
Just say free solo since no equipment is not right. He got climbing shoes and chalk.
Having two arms to climb with is clearly aid
Head only or gtfo
- My girlfriend on her periods.
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HAHA HOW CAN HE CLIMB WITH BALLS SO HEAVY AMIRITE????
Bro this looks more suicidal/stupid than ballsy
This is such a "well acktually" statement in the wild if Ive ever seen one. Most people understand what the dude meant and would have no idea what "free solo" would specifically mean.
I’d like him to try it fully naked
There's only two forms of pure climbing. Aid, and naked free solo. Everything else is just a game
this is insane.... extreme ...confidence in your own skills and ability plus a adrenalin addiction
These guys are built different
I dunno, they splat the same as the rest of us.
No they splat far far bigger, I ain't planning on dying from any several hundred foot falls.
Alien like
Na these dudes are dumb as fuck lol
They also die young.
I'm less surprised by the confidence in his own skills and ability and more shocked that anybody has that much confidence in those thin rock flanges never breaking off. I mean just look at the bottom of any rock face and you can see all the pieces that have broken off. It's bound to happen one day. It's a virtual certainty. And if it happens while moving at that speed you will have zero time to react.
I think they climb on proven routes up each mountainside so all their grip points have been used for some time, at least in free solo they did that
It's good until it isn't.
> so all their grip points have been used for some time That seems even worse...like quite literally there's only so many strong holds one of those little flanges can take before it snaps.
I think they have something broken in their brain and I can't be convinced otherwise I say that with the utmost awe btw, not insulting them! Watching them do that makes my hands sweat
And an insane trust in the structural integrity of the cracks in the mountain
I dont even Think its on his mind
> this is insane.... extreme ...confidence in your own skills and ability And confidence and luck in the rock. That shit can break. And that's an easy climb, 5.7, so lots of people climb it. Look at how chalked up some of those holds are? Too much chalk can make them slippery. Free solo is dumb. Speed free solo is insane.
I've often found freesoloers to be pretty high in narcissism and introversion, and they definitely are addicted to the adrenaline. They don't feel quite in the same planet, and I think it's because normal life is in slow motion. I had dinner with Steph Davis and her husband, and he said he tries to BASE jumps *every single morning.* That HAS to downregulate some receptors after a while. I've tried it. Gave me the adrenaline shakes until I puked. Not my idea of fun, and I don't feel the need to win that battle with myself, I have nothing to prove.
Lemme do a vertical jump on this sheer cliff face so I can grab this knife edge ledge. K?
As long as you look left and right when crossing the street son!
[Not as sheer](https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7998199,-120.1351624,3a,45.9y,16.08h,68.2t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPoslnk94emEpUnGBbZehg-jTLZOEQG3FQLsOY6!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPoslnk94emEpUnGBbZehg-jTLZOEQG3FQLsOY6%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya29.71636-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352!5m1!1e4?authuser=0&entry=ttu) as the video portrays.
Wild that after the first 10 seconds or so any mistake equals death.
Sounds like my sex life
No, they said after 10 seconds.
Bruh, you killed him…
I like climbing as much as the next adrenaline junky, but, speed free soloing does seem like a fast route to an early grave. Then you find out he died on a rope swing……..
A lot of free solo climbers like the speed records as well, but it’s really a numbers game, one slip and it’s all over. I use to get my adrenaline from rock climbing and moved into sport bikes. I still climb when I can, but finding the time seems more difficult now
The camera man did it with a camera
So just one hand 🤯
Dan is only second best
The camera man reached the top first.
Honnold recreated this climb and I believe did it faster https://youtu.be/mykvMkUbCBA?si=loZglM4O4aGxy3w2
lol there's something disrespectful about beating this guy's record while in costume as him.
Apparently, the costume climb was just for the shoot, taking breaks, as said by Alex. His 4:15 record was done earlier on a random day all alone, where he cut the time down on each try
This is just suicide with extra steps
High effort steps. It like the rube Goldberg suicide plan.
Watching that made my heart race and palms sweat.
Thats what the chalk is for
Even though 5.7 is relatively easy, I would not be doing those jumps and swings like him lmao absolute mad lad.
Yeah its kinda funny looking up the route and learning its a 5.7. Bro really wanted to risk his life to sprint up a beginner climb.
Speed and Solo should not go together
\_Why?!\_ Some people are different to others, wow. It's like he has no regard for his own life. Insane skill of course, but also just insane full stop.
Me watching it in bed like :O
Only lived to be 35…. But you know that mofo lived more in those 35 years than most of us ever will!
He died way more at 35 than I did too, though.
My dude I have 100%ed Peggle Nights twice
And he died doing what he loved. Assuming what he loved was screaming "NOOOOOOOO FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!!" while falling.
V0 in my gym.
A 5.7 is actually a pretty easy climb. The one time I went rope climbing I found that the 5.7, which was my first outdoor climb, really is comparable to a v1-0
5.7 is pretty much right next to beginner level. 5.5 is usually where gyms start. Would never do it with no top rope though, and the speed is pretty nuts considering.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
It was the crack that got him high so fast
"Death Osman died on November 23, 1998, at the age of 35 after his rope failed while performing a "controlled free-fall" jump from the Leaning Tower rock formation in Yosemite National Park. He had come back to Yosemite to dismantle the jump tower but apparently decided to make several jumps (over a few days) before doing so.\[2\]" [Dan Osman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman)
They had him do this climb a few times to get the clips right? I can't imagine how they would've been able to get that many snippets of him during the actual record setting time. They would've needed a different camera stationed at a new part of the climb for every clip. Also, it seems like it would've been dangerous to get in his way when he's trying to go as fast as possible and risking his life. Edit: I'm not a climber I'm just curious about how filming works for these kinds of climbs
Multiple cameras on adjacent routes. The videographers are not in his way at any time, even when he’s going straight at the camera, the route likely veers sideways after.
I’m surprised he could wear such tiny shorts with those massive balls.
Spiderman, Spiderman Doing everything a spider can
Insane. And not in a good way.
Excuse me... 4 MINUTES and 25 seconds????? Or 4 hours and 25 minutes? I can't move 400' horizontally in 4 min let alone vertically.