Team Geared Up » abseiling http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com talking about outdoor adventure... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:09:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © robin@bytesurgery.com () robin@bytesurgery.com() 1440 talking about outdoor adventure... robin@bytesurgery.com No no http://homedir-b.libsyn.com/podcasts/a7d06df132db6001b6053c87a6356197/487cc283/bytesurgery/images/tgu.jpg Team Geared Up http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com 144 144 World Record: 100m Abseil in 8.99 seconds http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/11/world-record-100m-abseil-in-899-seconds.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/11/world-record-100m-abseil-in-899-seconds.html#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:27:15 +0000 Robin Blandford http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2007/11/world-record-100m-abseil-in-899-seconds.html

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-

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