http://www.metafilter.com/tags/freeclimbing Posts tagged with 'freeclimbing' at MetaFilter. Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69940/Dean%2DPotter%2Dwalks%2Dthe%2Dline%2Dand%2Dthen%2Djumps%2Doff <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/sports/othersports/14climber.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">"He had learned this extreme form of tightrope walking from a homeless man who wrote books on quantum physics." </a> Iconoclastic rockclimber Dean Potter combines highlining, a form of tightrope walking, with BASE-jumping. This <a href="http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f417744aac502bbf2fb921054e55e379d99f5883">jaw-dropping video</a> of Potter "baselining" 900' above a canyon in Utah provides a taste of what to expect from <a href="http://www.aerialistmovie.com/">The Aerialist</a>, a recent documentary profiling this <strike>insane lunatic</strike> innovative athlete. Potter's <a href="http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200606/dean-potter-delicate-arch-climb-1.html">controversial free climb</a> of Utah's Delicate Arch was <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/51486/A-Delicate-Situation">previously discussed on MeFi.</a> See as well this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90xfWYnz9KM">1min video of his highline of Yosemite's Lost Arrow Spire</a> and this <a href="http://www.climbandmore.com/climbing,530,0,1,climbers.html">summary of his copious climbing achievements.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69940 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800 basejumping cojones deanpotter freeclimbing highlining donovan http://www.metafilter.com/62358/Spoider%2DBloke Birmingham’s iconic, 200 foot high <a href="http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/selfridges.htm" _blank> Selfridge’s building </a> has been scaled by an anonymous teenage equivalent of <a href=http://www.alainrobert.com/ _blank> Alain Robert </a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/20895/" _blank>(previously)</a>. A friend filmed the feat and posted it to YouTube, although <a href="http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_headline=&method=full&objectid=19351631&siteid=50002-name_page.html" _blank> local</a> (text) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtNPzfKCPyI&mode=related&search" _blank>news</a> (YouTube) claims it has now been removed. But <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4qR2b-Nfg&mode=related&search" _blank>has it?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.62358 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:32:09 -0800 alainrobert birmingham bullring freeclimbing secondcity selfridges spiderman uk youtube MrMustard