Just another interesting video I happened across (isn’t youtube great?). Watch Dan Osman climb a vertical 400ft cliff in just over 4 minutes with no ropes or safety gear. Notice how he does a few risky looking dynos too? when about 300ft off the ground? Another one not to try at home kids.

Dan Osman is famous for his crazy free-soloing feats and also for ‘controlled free-falling’ (his record was 1200ft). Controlled-free falling is basically just jumping off high things attached to a climbing rope (and hopefully a very well-thought out set of anchors). It is not similar to bungee jumping, in that just standard climbing rope with limited stretch is used. Dan Osman died in 1998 whilst performing one of this jumps when his rope cut. He was undoubtedly an amazing climber, but he often came under stick in the climbing community for being downright stupidly dangerous. Read this excellent biography from Outside Online that also details Dan’s final jump.

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