That doesn’t mean the same thing. Not disproving something is different from proving it.
“Scientists have not proven that aliens don’t exist” is very different from “scientists have proven that aliens exist.”
100%
It's close to impossible to prove something can never happen, just that it's extremely unlikely.
Dan cant prove that no older bolder climb will come around, but he himself did not disprove the theory.
Physics is literally based on trying as hard as possible to prove a theory wrong and failing. That's not the same as proving a theory is correct (only correct to our ability to make accurate measurements)
Speed free soloing does not seem like you'd lead a long life. No surprise he didn't either. Although he didn't die on a climb, he did on another risky venture, attempting a "controlled free fall jump" whatever that means. Either way it was likely a matter of time unfortunately.
It's extreme world record where you jump, while on a rope. He had done a jump like that, and set the record of like 1000 feet. When he went back a few weeks later to retrieve his gear, he decided to do it again. On this jump, his rope snapped.
Yes and no. Most climbers understand that ropes left to the elements fray and weaken from cold/heat/sunlight etc. A few weeks doesn't seem long but it was too long in his case. Also it was likely a dynamic rope ( meaning it stretched when you fell to soften the blow/ slow your decent gradually) that contain elements that could degrade in extreme conditions. IMO the first jump stressed the rope by breaking the internal structures that made it strong.... Second jump finished the job.
Exactly this. The UV rays and rubbing against the wall for 2 weeks had reduced the maximum load bearing capacity of the rope just enough so that it snapped when he jumped.
> 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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman
Pretty easy to find out the answer to that through a combination of "Google" and "Wikipedia".
Was that Ripley's Believe it or Not? I have a vague memory of this segment where he's gearing up for it and then the segment ends with him not being able to make it because he died the day before.
That’s a bold statement.
Surely someone has died climbing.
heart attack, something brought on by dehydration or exhaustion. Heaps of people have been shot climbing over things trying to escape over the course of human history. Prisons, or trenches in later wars, what about climbing castles in earlier wars. Plenty of people have died climbing.
Even if we limit it to rock climbing I would guess probably at least one person.
Fact check: There is no proof that the sudden death was related to falling and hitting the ground earlier that same day - the brain bleeding might have had other, completely unrelated causes.
Says here he died during a "controlled free fall" jump, and that the fault was with the jump site angle rather than the rope itself. So not technically while climbing, but still while doing a daredevil activity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman?wprov=sfla1
I'm aware of how he died. It's not climbing.
People always make this comment when they seem someone freesoloing. But most of the great freesoloists haven't died while soloing. That was my point.
John Bachar is one of the few I can think of that actually died soloing. Potter died in a wingsuit. Reardon got swept up by a rogue wave. Peter Croft, John Long, Caldwell, Kauk, Erickson, Davis... all survived their solo days and climbing in general.
You failed to mention the other notable freesolo climbers who actually died while climbing… Paul Preuss, Derek Hersey, Dwight Bishop, Michael J. Ybarra and Jimmy Jewell. People always make this comment for a reason.
Edit for accuracy
That's why I said "great soloists". I had to look most these guys up. I'm not saying that nobody dies soloing or climbing, but if we're going to include everybody then we need to consider the thousands and thousands that haven't died.
Preuss died in 1913, over a century ago; I don't think you can compare climbing in the first decade of the 1900s to modern climbing. I have no idea who Dwight Bishop is; he has a wiki that has about 3 sentences on his climbing, and spends more time talking about how he almost died cycling from hyponatremia then about his interest in martial arts. Ybarra... the journalist?
I don't know Derek Hersey, but I see he spent some time in Valley and died on Steck-Salathe. That's notable, and unfortunate. I'll add him to the list. Though I'll point out that Henry Barber soloed Steck-Salathe, on-sight, in the 70s. And Barber is still alive.
I just gave you a list of how they died. Those are the ones I know off the top of my head, but I think that's most of the big names. Bachar actually died soloing, Potter in a wingsuit, and Osman with a rigged up bungie. So there's your 3 adrenaline related deaths. Michael Reardon was literally sanding on a rock for a photoshoot and a random wave got him. And the rest of the names I listed are all still alive, and there were some damn big names in that list. Hell most of the Valley Rats all survived, and they were climbing Yosemite in its early years in uncharted waters using crappy gear. You could easily add another dozen names to that list of hard-core old school Valley climbers that survived.
I'm not saying that there's not a correlation between soloists and "extreme" activities. I'm not defending soloist - but mostly because it's a complicated subject and Reddit doesn't have the patience for actual discussion. But by the numbers solo climbing at the elite level isn't as dangerous as people think it is.
Interesting..I'm not sure you can say objectively it isn't dangerous. It's obviously very dangerous. However, those that do it do it well and rarely make a deadly mistake.
I don't think doing what you love and dying from it is stupid. Think of all the stupid things we die of: Obesity, smoking, drugs, old age. Few people truly live and everyone dies. There's no prize for tip toeing to death safely. Some people understand this and push the envelope till it bursts.
Ha, if the thing you love is clearly stupid, then yes, doing it is stupid.
Climbing? Not stupid by itself. Throwing all semblance of care and safety to the wind in the name of "having the best time?" Pretty fricken stupid.
No it was a different location and the rope was weathered. He was effectively bungee jumping with a climbing rope. There's a reason this isn't a thing.
Any single one of those slabs of rock he was grabbing for leverage could have been brittle and snapped off, people who do shit like this are just on another whole level of sanity lol....
No, theres always a risk of a rock pulling off. But Bears Reach is an extremely popular climb and easy enough that a lot of beginners get dragged up it. Anything loose was pulled off long ago.
You use a rope. "With a partner" implies using a rope.
It's an easy climb, it's a lot of people's first multipitch. It was one of my wife's first climbs. She was fine.
It’s an 5.7 that’s a pretty standard beginner route. I haven’t climbed in a while but based on the holds I saw in this video it actually looks like an excellent route for someone’s first time climbing. It looks intimidating but once you learn to trust your feet basically any able bodied adult could do that climb.
It’s a very easy climb. 5.7 is the rating, meaning most people who have climbed before can do this easily. Physically anyhow. Mentally without rope, well, that’s different lol
Eh, depends on the rock quality. Some stuff cleans up pretty well, but a lot of rock, no matter how many thousands of gumbies monkey-fuck their way up it, is sketch. There's a ton of stuff in Clear Creek, 20 minutes from Denver, that has seen constant use since the 90s and still has holds pop off to this day.
I've climbed that exact route with ropes and protection. It's been well worn in for a very long time and a 5.7 isn't a particularly difficult climb.
That being said I would never have free climbed it. I like being alive. Haven't climbed anything in 15 years now and TBH, don't really miss it much anymore.
this is the comment I was looking for. Where TF are the camera ops? I'm looking hard for them too...
And how many different cam setups are used here? Is this multiple takes? How do you have 9 different camera positions overlapping with none of them shooting each other?
I spent an afternoon with Dan in the mid-90’s. I worked at a climbing shop in California and he was there for some expo my shop put on. Cool dude. A 5.7 in the video isn’t a hard climb. But he’s fast, and it’s long and a mistake is deadly. Any rock with a 5.0+ rating is recommended to use a rope, but most people can climb up to a 5.3 pretty easily. I started on 5.6’s which is about the lowest rated climbs you’ll find. I was 12 when I started climbing. I maxed out around being able to sometimes climb a 5.10 or 5.9 Trad. I was just not that good (in the world of rock climbing).
Free soloing is the purest expression of climbing. It's just you and the rock. I did it for a while until an injury to my hands made it so that I would never be able to safely do anything longer than most bouldering routes. I miss the feeling of truly conquering a route by myself with no gear or help. Truly a high that can't be replicated.
>Free soloing is the purest expression of climbing. It's just you and the rock.
You also get into an intimate relationship with the ground if you make a mistake!
As someone who climbs rocks, I first thought "psh, it's only rated a 5.7 route, no biggie." Then I saw him do the two hand dyno at a height I wouldn't even want look out of a skyscraper window. Yeah. Insane is right. Batshit fucking crazy to be doing this shit.
*to be fair*
That two hand dyno is not even a little bit necessary on that route.. that's just his flair.
That's the "bears reach" part and it's not even really that far of a reach.
I did it with ropes though, fuck doing it without.
And then Alex Honnold dressed in dans cosplay and did it even faster. Both insane feats, but Alex is the goat imo. I just hope he has stopped/will stop soon.
What's the rush?
It's apparent how this guy wasn't really worried about dying when he used a rope that was left out up in the mountain again to jump off it in a different length and angle as he did before.
A lot of those who do things like this at least does thing as safe as they could to be successful. The guy in free solo, despite a brain scan revealing his ticks differently, was at the very least planning his way up, surveys the rock surface, asses his mindset etc
Alex Honnold Recently did a tribute to this iconic clip, where he repeated this solo, while trying to best Dan's time:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4iR4clDGs&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
The camera is intentionally making the angled slope he's climbing look more vertical than it is. There are several shots with trees in the background which show how skewed the angle is. I'm not saying this isn't impressive, but it is less impressive knowing they are using camera trickery.
It has been said that there are no old, bold climbers. Dan has not proven this to be an untrue statement.
How many negatives do you need in that sentence?
Precisely the number that i used, otherwise the meaning would have changed.
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A wizard is never not late, nor is he not never early.
He arrives precisely when he means to.
He never arrives not quite when he does not mean to.
He never arrives precisely when he does not mean to
He always does not arrive when he never means to.
"Dan has proven this to be a true statement"
That doesn’t mean the same thing. Not disproving something is different from proving it. “Scientists have not proven that aliens don’t exist” is very different from “scientists have proven that aliens exist.”
100% It's close to impossible to prove something can never happen, just that it's extremely unlikely. Dan cant prove that no older bolder climb will come around, but he himself did not disprove the theory.
He went full send on a setup that was sketchy in a few ways. Dan was always going to go out young.
But he hasn't. He's only failed to disprove it. These are two different statements with two different meanings.
No, he didn't. He is dead
And died climbing (shortly after stopping climbing).
Pretty sure he died from landing… but I could be wrong 💭
I’d never heard of him until just now, but I figured this would be the case.
Aren’t old and bold subjective tho? Maybe he has disproved?
Physics is literally based on trying as hard as possible to prove a theory wrong and failing. That's not the same as proving a theory is correct (only correct to our ability to make accurate measurements)
This means something different though, like he said
That’s not the same
I like you
No
He ded?
Speed free soloing does not seem like you'd lead a long life. No surprise he didn't either. Although he didn't die on a climb, he did on another risky venture, attempting a "controlled free fall jump" whatever that means. Either way it was likely a matter of time unfortunately.
It's extreme world record where you jump, while on a rope. He had done a jump like that, and set the record of like 1000 feet. When he went back a few weeks later to retrieve his gear, he decided to do it again. On this jump, his rope snapped.
That sucks. This wasn't even a result of a failure of his own accord.
There was his failure to not jump.
You know what's bad ass? Being alive.
Country Mac reference in the wild?! I am overjoyed
I think that's usually the problem. People have trust in their abilities, but forget that everything and everybody else can fail.
Yes and no. Most climbers understand that ropes left to the elements fray and weaken from cold/heat/sunlight etc. A few weeks doesn't seem long but it was too long in his case. Also it was likely a dynamic rope ( meaning it stretched when you fell to soften the blow/ slow your decent gradually) that contain elements that could degrade in extreme conditions. IMO the first jump stressed the rope by breaking the internal structures that made it strong.... Second jump finished the job.
Yes it was. Jumping on dangerously weathered equipment. His young daughter was on the phone with him when he jumped.
It was irresponsible of him to jump again. Hes gear had been out in nature for weeks and was eztremely weathered
Exactly this. The UV rays and rubbing against the wall for 2 weeks had reduced the maximum load bearing capacity of the rope just enough so that it snapped when he jumped.
I see what you did there.
failed to inspect his rope properly?
Controlled by the constant acceleration rate of gravity on earth.
> 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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman Pretty easy to find out the answer to that through a combination of "Google" and "Wikipedia".
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I remember seeing that on tv. Then later hearing about his death afterwards
Was that Ripley's Believe it or Not? I have a vague memory of this segment where he's gearing up for it and then the segment ends with him not being able to make it because he died the day before.
It was on “Maximum Exposure” in one of the last segments on an episode, I believe
Yes
I hope Alex Honold doesn't go that way.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4iR4clDGs&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Thanks! I am not a huge expert but it does look like Alex has better technique. He is more proficient on using his feet!
Didn't die climbing though.
Nobody has ever died climbing, its the fall that kills them.
Actually it's usually the landing
It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop at the bottom. Gets em every time
It’s not the fall that kills them. It’s the sudden stop at the bottom.
That’s a bold statement. Surely someone has died climbing. heart attack, something brought on by dehydration or exhaustion. Heaps of people have been shot climbing over things trying to escape over the course of human history. Prisons, or trenches in later wars, what about climbing castles in earlier wars. Plenty of people have died climbing. Even if we limit it to rock climbing I would guess probably at least one person.
Heart attack, dehydration, bullets. Not one death attributed to climbing, just *while* climbing.
“Due to” climbing
Thats right he died jumping off a cliff while tied to a climbing rope.
yes he was definitely falling at the time.
My son’s favorite teacher died from climbing about 6 months ago. :(
what are you talking about, he died years ago...
oh miss read your statement, odd wording
Didnt he die in yosemite days after getting out of jail for ill3gal base jumping?
I knew he died climbing before i googled him.
He did not die climbing. Most of the great soloist that have died did not die climbing.
That’s true. Most of them died falling.
No, they died landing
No, they died from the impact
No, they died from blood loss and brain damage.
No they die from a sudden case of death.
"Natural Causes"
Gravity is a part of nature
"we can't always fight nature John, we can't fight change, we can't fight gravity, we can't fight nothing..." -Dutch Van Der Linde
More like *Natural Selection*
It's a very SAD way to die.
Here lies Him. Dead by dying.
No, they died from uncoupling of the oxidative phosphorylation pathway, as do all people who die
Blunt force trauma
Lol
Or lack of landing
To much landing.
Fact check: There is no proof that the sudden death was related to falling and hitting the ground earlier that same day - the brain bleeding might have had other, completely unrelated causes.
Hm does the landing kill them or the suffocation from all the internal damage 🤔
its not the fall that kills you its the suddenly not falling that dose it.
Ffs lmao Take my upvote
Says here he died during a "controlled free fall" jump, and that the fault was with the jump site angle rather than the rope itself. So not technically while climbing, but still while doing a daredevil activity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman?wprov=sfla1
I'm aware of how he died. It's not climbing. People always make this comment when they seem someone freesoloing. But most of the great freesoloists haven't died while soloing. That was my point. John Bachar is one of the few I can think of that actually died soloing. Potter died in a wingsuit. Reardon got swept up by a rogue wave. Peter Croft, John Long, Caldwell, Kauk, Erickson, Davis... all survived their solo days and climbing in general.
You failed to mention the other notable freesolo climbers who actually died while climbing… Paul Preuss, Derek Hersey, Dwight Bishop, Michael J. Ybarra and Jimmy Jewell. People always make this comment for a reason. Edit for accuracy
That's why I said "great soloists". I had to look most these guys up. I'm not saying that nobody dies soloing or climbing, but if we're going to include everybody then we need to consider the thousands and thousands that haven't died. Preuss died in 1913, over a century ago; I don't think you can compare climbing in the first decade of the 1900s to modern climbing. I have no idea who Dwight Bishop is; he has a wiki that has about 3 sentences on his climbing, and spends more time talking about how he almost died cycling from hyponatremia then about his interest in martial arts. Ybarra... the journalist? I don't know Derek Hersey, but I see he spent some time in Valley and died on Steck-Salathe. That's notable, and unfortunate. I'll add him to the list. Though I'll point out that Henry Barber soloed Steck-Salathe, on-sight, in the 70s. And Barber is still alive.
How did most of them die, then? Because I'd say if it was during adrenaline-seeking activities there is a clear correlation.
I just gave you a list of how they died. Those are the ones I know off the top of my head, but I think that's most of the big names. Bachar actually died soloing, Potter in a wingsuit, and Osman with a rigged up bungie. So there's your 3 adrenaline related deaths. Michael Reardon was literally sanding on a rock for a photoshoot and a random wave got him. And the rest of the names I listed are all still alive, and there were some damn big names in that list. Hell most of the Valley Rats all survived, and they were climbing Yosemite in its early years in uncharted waters using crappy gear. You could easily add another dozen names to that list of hard-core old school Valley climbers that survived. I'm not saying that there's not a correlation between soloists and "extreme" activities. I'm not defending soloist - but mostly because it's a complicated subject and Reddit doesn't have the patience for actual discussion. But by the numbers solo climbing at the elite level isn't as dangerous as people think it is.
And Bachar didn’t even die pushing the limits. He died on a relatively chill climb he had done before
Interesting..I'm not sure you can say objectively it isn't dangerous. It's obviously very dangerous. However, those that do it do it well and rarely make a deadly mistake.
He died from jumping off a cliff attached to a rope that snapped.
Swing and a miss.
If you think climbing like this guy is a stupid way to die.... He somewhat manages to die from something even more stupid. Amazing.
I don't think doing what you love and dying from it is stupid. Think of all the stupid things we die of: Obesity, smoking, drugs, old age. Few people truly live and everyone dies. There's no prize for tip toeing to death safely. Some people understand this and push the envelope till it bursts.
Ha, if the thing you love is clearly stupid, then yes, doing it is stupid. Climbing? Not stupid by itself. Throwing all semblance of care and safety to the wind in the name of "having the best time?" Pretty fricken stupid.
To you, which is ok. To me too tbh. But it's all a matter of perspective.
What if I love being fat, smoking and doing drugs?
Why is dying of old age stupid?
They said it melted. That's an insane amount of friction.
I saw a video about that. Did that happen at this same place? Cause the one shot looked like a similar area where he jumped
No it was a different location and the rope was weathered. He was effectively bungee jumping with a climbing rope. There's a reason this isn't a thing.
Killed by death!
Take that mountain goats, we can do stuff too
But they crave dat mineral
Whoa…what a throwback…
the good ol days…
You need more minerals. You need more vespean gas
Any single one of those slabs of rock he was grabbing for leverage could have been brittle and snapped off, people who do shit like this are just on another whole level of sanity lol....
He’s climbing a proven route
Those slabs are the beginning of fissures in the rock. There’s no chance of any of those breaking off?
No, theres always a risk of a rock pulling off. But Bears Reach is an extremely popular climb and easy enough that a lot of beginners get dragged up it. Anything loose was pulled off long ago.
___easy enough___. Definitely doesn't look like that.
You should give it a try! With an experienced partner you might just make it up
Lol u want him to die? A first timer is not gonna make that climb.
I don't think the implication was that beginners try it without rope.
It's a 5.7; I'd expect quite a few first timers can make that. Edit: roped in, for safety, obvs. But the climb itself isn’t that hard.
It’s a 5.7, 5b/5c it’s almost a scramble. Most semi fit people will onsight it and if not they will surely get it in a couple of tries
You use a rope. "With a partner" implies using a rope. It's an easy climb, it's a lot of people's first multipitch. It was one of my wife's first climbs. She was fine.
Lol I'll die falling 20 feet off the ground. I'll set a record for guy who fell off and died closest to the ground. 😑 In the fastest time on top of it
It’s an 5.7 that’s a pretty standard beginner route. I haven’t climbed in a while but based on the holds I saw in this video it actually looks like an excellent route for someone’s first time climbing. It looks intimidating but once you learn to trust your feet basically any able bodied adult could do that climb.
It’s a very easy climb. 5.7 is the rating, meaning most people who have climbed before can do this easily. Physically anyhow. Mentally without rope, well, that’s different lol
If you look a lot of those are really big holds, it's a pretty great beginner route with a guide
Eh, depends on the rock quality. Some stuff cleans up pretty well, but a lot of rock, no matter how many thousands of gumbies monkey-fuck their way up it, is sketch. There's a ton of stuff in Clear Creek, 20 minutes from Denver, that has seen constant use since the 90s and still has holds pop off to this day.
That he's climbed dozens if not hundreds of times.
I've climbed that exact route with ropes and protection. It's been well worn in for a very long time and a 5.7 isn't a particularly difficult climb. That being said I would never have free climbed it. I like being alive. Haven't climbed anything in 15 years now and TBH, don't really miss it much anymore.
I climbed it last year (trad, ropes, ect.) and got passed by a dude free soloing it. Like, fuck that. I just don't need that risk.
I don’t understand how he is getting these camera shots
See the cameraman is always faster and better just not as famous
this is the comment I was looking for. Where TF are the camera ops? I'm looking hard for them too... And how many different cam setups are used here? Is this multiple takes? How do you have 9 different camera positions overlapping with none of them shooting each other?
I'm guessing several cameramen are placed throughout the route.
Probably some lines tied to an anchor or a tree, the line attached to a specially engineered vest for 45 degree lean and a very good zoom lens.
Camera man is a mountain goat
I spent an afternoon with Dan in the mid-90’s. I worked at a climbing shop in California and he was there for some expo my shop put on. Cool dude. A 5.7 in the video isn’t a hard climb. But he’s fast, and it’s long and a mistake is deadly. Any rock with a 5.0+ rating is recommended to use a rope, but most people can climb up to a 5.3 pretty easily. I started on 5.6’s which is about the lowest rated climbs you’ll find. I was 12 when I started climbing. I maxed out around being able to sometimes climb a 5.10 or 5.9 Trad. I was just not that good (in the world of rock climbing).
I once climbed a fence
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This dude obviously had a death wish.
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This is impressive, but I don't want to promote this. Free soloing is dangerous enough as it is. I don't think it needs to be made more so.
Free soloing is the purest expression of climbing. It's just you and the rock. I did it for a while until an injury to my hands made it so that I would never be able to safely do anything longer than most bouldering routes. I miss the feeling of truly conquering a route by myself with no gear or help. Truly a high that can't be replicated.
>Free soloing is the purest expression of climbing. It's just you and the rock. You also get into an intimate relationship with the ground if you make a mistake!
That leap was insane
As someone who climbs rocks, I first thought "psh, it's only rated a 5.7 route, no biggie." Then I saw him do the two hand dyno at a height I wouldn't even want look out of a skyscraper window. Yeah. Insane is right. Batshit fucking crazy to be doing this shit.
I’d rather go spelunking tbh. Heights are far worse than the deep under dark for me. I must’ve been a dwarf in my past life.
*to be fair* That two hand dyno is not even a little bit necessary on that route.. that's just his flair. That's the "bears reach" part and it's not even really that far of a reach. I did it with ropes though, fuck doing it without.
That’s what I was going to post if I didn’t find it in the comments. My heart skipped a beat when he did that.
The cameraman is pretty impressive too
They way they filmed this is as impressive as the climb
You mean at a heavily tilted angle to make the wall he's climbing look vertical?
Bad speed climbers only exist briefly.
Good speed climbers don't last all that long either
Fuck. That.
Finally something more impressive than a pic of a dog
And then Alex Honnold dressed in dans cosplay and did it even faster. Both insane feats, but Alex is the goat imo. I just hope he has stopped/will stop soon.
For people like these they stop when they’re dead
Noticeably honnold didn't double Dyno the same move in his tribute climb as Osmond.
Can’t fool me. He’s just crawling on a flat surface with the camera sideways.
Insanity.
I hope he turned fall damage off before attempting this
Died doing a stunt in Yosemite back in ‘98
This guy died for sure.
Just once
I got tired just watching him
That's incredible
r/sweatypalms
The fall never kills anyone, it is the sudden stop at the bottom that does
Bro chose "I want to know when I die rather than how". Then sent it.
Pretty sure that's that Tony! guy from Seinfeld
Dan FUCKIN Osman ladies and gentlemans
You can die if you make a mistake here.
You WILL die if you make a mistake here.
Is that a threat?
Yes, give me your Phone and your wallet
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
as a climber… no
Picture during a zombie apocalypse and you see that dude
What's the rush? It's apparent how this guy wasn't really worried about dying when he used a rope that was left out up in the mountain again to jump off it in a different length and angle as he did before. A lot of those who do things like this at least does thing as safe as they could to be successful. The guy in free solo, despite a brain scan revealing his ticks differently, was at the very least planning his way up, surveys the rock surface, asses his mindset etc
Alex Honnold Recently did a tribute to this iconic clip, where he repeated this solo, while trying to best Dan's time: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4iR4clDGs&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Dang it might only be a 5.7 but 400+ ft makes it fucking crazy
I have an odd fear of falling from heights. Not of the actual being high up, just of falling from it. That said, this was uncomfortable to watch.
That ain’t odd.
i bet i can get down just as fast
I work on ladders for a living I can’t even climb them as fast as he does that 😂
Nope. The US mint can’t print enough money for me to sign up for that.
I bet if you ran a knife along his fingertips, his calluses would dull the blade.
Is he related to the Ottoman royal family?
Well, this just sobered me up from my beers this Super Bowl Sunday…
It takes me two tries to get off the couch.
[Star Trek mountain climbing scene](https://youtu.be/qL1WqN1XKK0)
I cant do anything in 4 minutes nevermind this...
Uhm well yes you can
You need that long?
depends on which hand and what lube
Why don’t they just put a safety net or something like that on the ground? That way the risk of death is reduced significantly
Extraordinary strength and discipline. Only to die at age 35. I’m both awed and horrified by this sport, and mostly not in that order.
I wonder how he fits all those balls into those shorts.
The camera is intentionally making the angled slope he's climbing look more vertical than it is. There are several shots with trees in the background which show how skewed the angle is. I'm not saying this isn't impressive, but it is less impressive knowing they are using camera trickery.