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Base jumper stuck

by Alpinist » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:52 pm

... on Mt Baring in Washington. And then arrested. :lol: Doh!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/base-jumper-rescued-arrested-11331049

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Re: Base jumper stuck

by Ejnar Fjerdingstad » Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:17 pm

Alpinist wrote:... on Mt Baring in Washington. And then arrested. :lol: Doh!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/base-jumper-rescued-arrested-11331049


Happens often, according to what I once read in a Norwegian climbing magazine, and as they wrote, generally base jumpers are totally unable to climb even a moderately difficult rock face, if they get caught on it.

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by mrchad9 » Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:29 pm

He sure didn't make it very far down!


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