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Base jumper stuck

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:52 pm
by Alpinist
... on Mt Baring in Washington. And then arrested. :lol: Doh!

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

Re: Base jumper stuck

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

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:29 pm
by mrchad9
He sure didn't make it very far down!
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