Too much fun to be safe...

PardonTheWait · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:42

Will Gill said:
lie and feign mountain climbing intelligence im certainly not remotely active, you could have fooled me with claims of complex reef knots

Yes it's a high tension repeller knot rig with ****splices (hur hur) and shivermingers stacked and balanced on four peak reef splangers with 3432lb ft gumby line

:cool:

Raymond Lin · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:44

That's DIY bungee jumping to the extreme !

Messiah Khan · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:45

Mohinder said:
Yes it's a high tension repeller knot rig with ****splices (hur hur) and shivermingers stacked and balanced on four peak reef splangers with 3432lb ft gumby line

I think you'll find thats pre stressed inverted gumby line

Inquisitor · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:46

WHAT!!! said:
As said above

Thats insane
He Was a Nutter
I need Clean Pants

The things he did in that video made me cringe, like trusting your life to 1 rope which i less than an inch thick just crazy to me.

How did he end up dieing tho was it through rope breaking or something similar ?

Yep, rope broke and he died as he hit the trees below.

There's an article explaining it all here:
http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html
(page 5)

PardonTheWait · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:46

messiah khan said:
I think you'll find thats pre stressed inverted gumby line

Yeah that's what I meant, innit

cleanbluesky · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:50

Well, climbing ropes are MEANT to take falls and they are elastic... so he might of been able to do it with long ropes alone... but that might have cost £££ per jump, because they are only certified for a certain amount of falls...

Best name for a climbing knot. Double munter friction hitch... I kid ye not.

TheCrow · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:50

would love to feel some of the feelings he must have had in his time! but i will never get to as i would like to stay alive.

nikebee · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:52

a good, yet sad artical about Dan Osman - regarding his death and feelings from his friends/family etc... a pretty good read

http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html

Inquisitor · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:53

nikebee said:
a good, yet sad artical about Dan Osman - regarding his death and feelings from his friends/family etc... a pretty good read

http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html

Beat you to it

cheets64 · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:54

a theory that seems to indicate not system failure but human error: In short, Osman had failed to realize that changing his jump angle would ultimately place an unbearable load on one of the knots that connected the ropes of his jump line

WHAT!!! · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:56

Inquisitor said:
Yep, rope broke and he died as he hit the trees below.

There's an article explaining it all here:
http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html
(page 5)

I did a quick google and what i read before this came up with basicaly simalar story.

Its just asking for trouble to do those kinds of things and unfortunately it ended really badly for him.

Liverpool-Lad · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:00

a theory that seems to indicate not system failure but human error: In short, Osman had failed to realize that changing his jump angle would ultimately place an unbearable load on one of the knots that connected the ropes of his jump line

Shouldve used the ol' granny knot.

nikebee · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:05

Inquisitor said:
Beat you to it

didn't refresh my page

Mark A · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:09

How sad

, so he must have hit the ground as if he had just jumped off the cliff with no ropes?. How come his friend didn't try to resuscitate him?. The video where he is climbing that cliff is amazing and scary, i would never dare to attempt anything like that. It doesn't look like he even has any rope :eek:

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Mark

olv · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:13

OH MY GOD!

whilst the jumping looks amazingly cool (i'd love a go) it's the solo climbs that have got me going WHAT THE ****. I absolutely soil myself when i'm bouldering above about 15 feet. imagine those 100s of feet up. and when he misses that dyno first go at the end

absolutely cacked myself!

WHAT!!! · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:17

Mark A said:
How sad , so he must have hit the ground as if he had just jumped off the cliff with no ropes?. How come his friend didn't try to resuscitate him?. The video where he is climbing that cliff is amazing and scary, i would never dare to attempt anything like that. It doesn't look like he even has any rope .

Mark

In the articals i just read it said his friends heard him hit tree's and go "aahh" which they thought maybehe just hit the tree's and was ok, they tried to contact him on the radio but with no response, which they said they started to freak out and rushed down to find him.

His friend found him on the floor on his side and checked his pulse, he must have been dead for 5-15 mins before they found him and to take a fall like that he would'nt of been able to have been resuscitated.

nikebee · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:17

Mark A said:
How sad , so he must have hit the ground as if he had just jumped off the cliff with no ropes?. How come his friend didn't try to resuscitate him?. The video where he is climbing that cliff is amazing and scary, i would never dare to attempt anything like that. It doesn't look like he even has any rope .

Mark

to be fair mate... he's just jumped off a mountain, the report says he used a 1000ft rope and had added over 75ft of rope compared to his previous jump... and his safety line... failed (to say the least)... there wouldn't be much chance of somebody living after that kind of fall.

and you've got to take into consideration the fact of the people that were at the top of the mountain have got to get down to him...

Domo · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:24

Coolest vid I've seen in a while :cool:

Bunka · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:24

I climb fairly regularly and heights/exposure don't bother me that much, but soloing to that height and speed is just :eek:

One tiny tiny mistake i.e. sweaty hands on a hold that has some grass or sand on it and he would be royally screwed.

About the jumping, as cbs said, the rope is designed to stretch and be relatively elasticated, so one fall like that would mean you instantley need a new rope as all the fibres inside are likely to be damaged. Thats why there is a series of ropes so the load is spread to a greater level and will technically mean that it's safer, although i'd imagine those ropes still will only last a few jumps.

freebooter · 20 Jun 2006 at 00:52

Bunka said:
I climb fairly regularly and heights/exposure don't bother me that much, but soloing to that height and speed is just One tiny tiny mistake i.e. sweaty hands on a hold that has some grass or sand on it and he would be royally screwed.

About the jumping, as cbs said, the rope is designed to stretch and be relatively elasticated, so one fall like that would mean you instantley need a new rope as all the fibres inside are likely to be damaged. Thats why there is a series of ropes so the load is spread to a greater level and will technically mean that it's safer, although i'd imagine those ropes still will only last a few jumps.

Not true. Climbing ropes are dynamic enough to take a number of factor 2 falls, a factor 2 fall is where you fall twice the length of the rope and is the maximum possible. Basically with dynamic ropes the absolute length is irrelevent, it is the fall factor which matters, fall factor=length of fall/length of rope. Most single climbing ropes are tested to about 6-8 factor 2 falls with an 80kg weight, I can't remember offhand what the UIAA minimum is.

Of course, in the case of the enourmous jumps he was doing then the rope setup was very complex. He was trying to get as close to the ground as possible without hitting it and also had to make sure he didn't swing into the rock.