Video: Insane climber

I did a search on this guy, this was appearently one of his more sane adventures. He died jumping off rock in Yosemite while attached to a rope rigging system he designed.
 
Dano was one of rock climbing's most extreme showmen. Speed ascents, free solos, and then his favorite was freefalling onto a length of climbing rope.

The jump he died on started with a 1200 foot tyrolean 1150 feet off the ground, anchored to a rock pillar called the Leaning Tower. It was to have been a record breaking 1000 foot freefall, but he'd made an error with his rigging. Analysis of the rope by Black Diamond showed evidence that one of the knots he used to tie the jump ropes together failed.

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That's crazy.

Puts a new perspective to the phrase "death wish".

Sad to here and what a waste of talent.
 
Totally untelated, but Dean Potter just stirred up a hornets nest by free climbing (and filming) Delicate Arch in Moab. It was pretty common knowledge that the Parks Service had bannned climbing the named arches in Zion and Bryce Canyons. He claimed that a ranger had given permission. The climbing community is incensed, as they expect that Parks will be doing more enforcing and cracking down.

Potter is one of the two or three leading climbers (Hans Florine, Peter Croft, Todd Skinner are a few others) into speed ascents, both solo, free solo, and partnered (roped simulclimbing-without true belays. He's also done some amazing untethered slack lining, as in across over 1000 feet of air to Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite. He's done the Nose in about 2.5 hours...at about 3000 feet, that is 9 times as high as Lover's Leap, which is surely rated a lot less lower. Whatever, that video of Osman flashing, no running, hell, jumping up that face, is simply amazing.
 
It is ego driven and selfish...though nutty, folks like that still leave behind families that have to deal with the tragedy of their poor self-image.
 
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