Come on - once you've free soloed passed about 40 feet, it doesn't really matter how high you go........ the result if you fall from 50 feet is likely to be exactly the same as if you fall from 400.kinghami3 said:Damn, I've free-climbed a 5.7 before (though I can cleanly lead a 5.10a with pro), but 400 ft. is nuts. One screw-up and it's all over.
SPLAT!!!!!SkaredShtles said:Come on - once you've free soloed passed about 40 feet, it doesn't really matter how high you go........ the result if you fall from 50 feet is likely to be exactly the same as if you fall from 400.
SkaredShtles said:Come on - once you've free soloed passed about 40 feet, it doesn't really matter how high you go........ the result if you fall from 50 feet is likely to be exactly the same as if you fall from 400.
Well, I suppose from a spectator's point of view, a higher fall might be more spectacular...........N8 said:
True, but the end result is the same. And it isn't the fall, but the landing that kills you.N8 said:
Nice attempt, Quickdraw.narlus said:
Terminal velocity of a free-falling human is about 18 ft/s, so you would reach your maximum splatting speed in about 1.7 secs, or roughly 16 ft of falling...N8 said:
da page said:
I got the numbers from a skydiving website. On further investigation, it looks like I went the wrong way on my m/s to ft/s conversion.Toshi said:that doesn't sound right. sources pls thx
here's one highly authoritative web page that contradicts you...
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00012.htm
That's the site that I used before.Palilla said:
Yeah that double dyno is sick. But I think, as a couple of monkeys pointed out, 5.7 is somewhat of a walk in the park for seasoned veterans like the late Osman. On the flipside, you could be freesoloing a 5.5 and the consequences are as high as if you are doing a 5.14dBuck Fever said:I was going to say something like that except without the factual content. I would have gone something like this..."I'm pretty certain he died doing something illogical a while back."
And then I would have pointed out the double dyno and gone
he did all those dynos in order to skip movements. if you have stringg of good holds and one really big hold above them just dyno to em and you are good to go.lux said:
not all the time. my buddy Kenneth to a free fall 80 footer to the deck. no head injuries at all but it took two orthopedic surgeons and one surgeon over 14 hours to get him back together. he was the fourth person to repel down at cliff at night and the entire anchor let go. he landed feet first. he also now climbs hard 5.13 on a very regular basis.SkaredShtles said:Come on - once you've free soloed passed about 40 feet, it doesn't really matter how high you go........ the result if you fall from 50 feet is likely to be exactly the same as if you fall from 400.
