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Brutal rock climbing fall, Dan Osmon

posted by obscenesimian 3 years 1 week ago • 4442 views

tags: climbing, dan osman, long, falling, rope stretch, zipper

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I hadn't seen this Osmon Video before. I don't know if he set this up as a long fall, or what. And yes, he is now deceased. Really a brilliant athlete, but his death while climbing was to be expected.

written by obscenesimian | 3 years 1 week ago | CH

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As we climbers like to say "When in doubt, run it out"

written by wingnut

| 3 years 1 week ago | CH

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freefalling is what he did when he got sick of climbing, if i remember correctly.

written by pho3n1x

| 3 years 1 week ago | CH

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From what I can see, three pieces of protection pulled, leading to a long fall. I like the puff of chalk at the end of the fall.

written by schmawy

| 3 years 1 week ago | CH

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now how many anchors did i put in the face? 10, 9, 8, 7.. shit...

written by personalzen | 3 years 1 week ago | CH

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You are Right schmawy. He did blow a lotta nuts on this one

3 on the way down and 2 at the end. I looked at this at first and thought maybe he set up a long fall.

written by obscenesimian | 3 years 1 week ago | CH

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That was crazy

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| 2 years 9 months 1 week ago | CH

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| 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'climbing, dan, osmon, long, falling' to 'climbing, dan osman, long, falling, rope stretch, zipper' - edited by fissionchips

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| 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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that wasnt intetional, thats a classic "zipper effect"
the problem is when you take a fall you run the risk of zippering, the tension the rope puts on the protection devices makes them pull in ways the climber did not expect and thus causes them to pull from the rock, once one pulls, it creates that much more impact on the device below making it fail..the effect duplicates until it either stops pulling protections..or you hit the ground.
Osman was VVERY lucky a device finally caught him. If you watch the video you can see in the rope the many little devices in the rope as they get pulled from the rock, they look like little danglingly thing on the rope...those are the cams he put it as they pull ouut of the rock.... he was crapping himself for sure.
Ive never had this happen thank god...id probably scream like a little girl all the way down.

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