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ollax
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Jorn
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haha, he certainly got some balls. nice skills
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fisk
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Nov 2005 17:56 Post subject: |
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omg what he did in 4 minutes would take me hours i think
its even more crazy that he jumps to get a hold of things, without protection thats damn crazy
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Esel_Gesi
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Jorn
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| Posted: Fri, 4th Nov 2005 18:42 Post subject: |
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what i've found:
| Article #1 wrote: | | Dan Osmand. He died while trying to set the longest free fall record in Yosemite. Nov. 23, 1998 |
| Article #2 wrote: | | Died from jumping off a rock pillar and slamming into the ground. His entire life was crazy. |
| Quote: | IT WAS TWILIGHT IN YOSEMITE after a day of light rain. Headlights flickered in the dark of the valley floor below as Dan Osman took out his cell phone and called his friends Jim Fritsch and Frank Gambalie. "It's all set," he said. "Why aren't you here? You guys have to do this." Big storm, they told him. The roads out of Squaw Valley had been closed because of the snow. They wanted to be there, had planned to make the five-hour drive south to watch their friend take the longest, most dangerous plunge he'd ever attempted. Both of them were experienced jumpers. Gambalie was also a high-diving parachutist who'd made hundreds of leaps from bridges, buildings, cliffs, antennae—any lofty place with a landing zone; Fritsch, meanwhile, owned a bungee-jumping operation. But the fall Osman was about to make was beyond BASE or bungee. Dano, as they called him, was about to pitch himself off a rock pillar called Leaning Tower and plunge 1,100 feet tethered only to a climbing rope rigged to stop his fall just 150 feet above the boulder field at the base of the cliff.
Gambalie and Fritsch had taken these prejump calls before, had listened to Osman's countdown and then to the whistle of the wind as they marked the interval, had imagined the rush of the ground coming up as both of them had experienced many times themselves jumping on Osman's rigs. Osman himself had used his unique system of ropes, pulleys, and anchors more than a thousand times, and had developed a careful series of safety checks to assure that he and his equipment were ready. This time, however, in the chill of a late-November evening, he seemed hurried. He interrupted the countdown twice. Then, from an angle on the pillar he hadn't tried before, he leapt. The heavy whisper of the wind through the phone lasted ten, 11, 12 seconds, past what Fritsch and Gambalie knew to be the limit of the rope. The phone went dead. |
Source: http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html
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