Ireland
Scotland
Wales
England
France
Switzerland
Italy
USA|
Nov
29
2007
|
World Record: 100m Abseil in 8.99 seconds |
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Picked this up on my trawl through YouTube.com this evening. It’s the world record attempt to abseil 100m on a single line in the shortest time. Check this out - he totally misses the safety boxes at the bottom but all credit to Petzl, their device stop him sharply just before he probably would have broken his ankles and pelvic girdle (that’s what happens in large vertical falls).
Surprised they didn’t have better footage of the drop.
-Robin-
Latest Comments (2):
fair play to the big lad. he actually sets another record in that video just at the start when he speaks to jamie theakston - world’s most annoying man! :-D
haha very good!
Post A Comment:
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI