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kuu

16/08/2012
3:42:21 PM

On 16/08/2012 IronCheff wrote:
>How did they get that camera angle. From the top of the Pharos maybe.

More likely from a helicopter.


The good Dr

16/08/2012
4:01:25 PM

Was filmed from a small radio controlled drone that was launched next to the crag. Ask Simey for the gruesome details.


kuu

16/08/2012
4:17:19 PM

On 16/08/2012 The good Dr wrote:
>Was filmed from a small radio controlled drone that was launched next to
>the crag. Ask Simey for the gruesome details.

Something like this perhaps?
http://store.apple.com/au/product/H8859/parrot-ar-drone-2-0

Not intentional spam ;-)


shortman

29/08/2012
10:38:42 AM

In the HeraldScum today:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/bride-and-groom-say-i-do-atop-narrow-300m-high-sheer-seneca-rock-in-west-virginia/story-e6frfhb6-1226460505717

simey

29/08/2012
11:40:53 AM

On 29/08/2012 shortman wrote:
>In the HeraldScum today:
>
>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/bride-and-groom-say-i-do-atop-narrow-300m-high-sheer-seneca-rock-in-west-virginia/story-e6frfhb6-1226460505717

How nice. Maybe I will get married on top of the Totem Pole.


shortman

29/08/2012
11:46:17 AM

How many women could you fit up there?


richard

31/08/2012
10:03:16 PM

On 29/08/2012 shortman wrote:
>How many women could you fit up there?

Just a couple of cousins....Tassie is the Aus equiv of West Virgina!


richard

31/08/2012
10:07:25 PM

http://video.carsguide.com.au/2270251596/Woman-walks-tightrope-between-moving-trucks?area=videoindex15

"best slackliner in the world" slacklines between two trucks driving down a high way..approaching a tunnel.

Didn't seem to have been mentioned here.


ajfclark

18/11/2012
8:11:14 AM

Stumbled across this this morning...

vonClimb

18/11/2012
2:13:02 PM

On 18/11/2012 ajfclark wrote:
>Stumbled across this this morning...
>

That one's great, had me chuckling

martym

20/11/2012
2:17:26 PM

My friend went and saw the new Cirque du Soleil show - and said they've now included climbing in it!

Seems like quite an impressive show now... people doing backflips on to holds, trapeezing dynos and doing handstands mid climb...


Edward Oslabofvic

20/11/2012
2:45:33 PM

I seen that type of thing before. It was great. I really liked the little stalls they could do, and the big one armed dynos.

I'd go to climbing gyms if they had trampolines at the bottom

gfdonc

20/11/2012
3:43:59 PM

There was a similar concept at the last Nati frinj. Slightly different costume though ;-)


shortman

20/11/2012
3:44:13 PM

Thanks for posting. Was this @ the permanent cirque in Las Vegas?

martym

20/11/2012
3:53:01 PM

On 20/11/2012 shortman wrote:
>Thanks for posting. Was this @ the permanent cirque in Las Vegas?

Nope at the "Ovo" show at fox studios - next stop Adelaide I believe.. - though the images were from a US website so might have been...

DJ Biggs

20/11/2012
10:27:35 PM

Beard Strokers beware.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20394054


spiinal

21/11/2012
7:11:34 AM

Ha! That's so funny.


Big G

21/11/2012
9:28:54 AM

loved the effect the hraness had on his padded belly - made it look like the biggest set of man boobs ever

martym

21/11/2012
10:19:41 AM

I love the fact the guy in cammo and beret creates the idea they had to call special services in to cut him free!


IdratherbeclimbingM9

21/11/2012
10:50:31 AM

On 21/11/2012 martym wrote:
>I love the fact the guy in cammo and beret creates the idea they had to
>call special services in to cut him free!

You mean he wasn't Special Forces?
:-(

It amazed me that when 'santa' first started getting his beard in the tube-style abseil device that he didn't address the problem then*, but instead tried to continue and lowered another 10 to 20 cm which well and truly jammed the device.
(*Footlock, take weight off tube enough to free entanglement in early stage).

I noted the rescuer had his own prusik!

~> Would've been better to have the abseil device rigged well clear of the beard to start with...

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