Ask ben Kim. That was during PESO 1994 and Ben watched the stunt and even photographed it. He might have pics on his esotericvision or whatever.com
From: addi...@caveresource.com
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] "Slacklining" Golondrinas
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:12:05 -0500
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>We recently switched to DishNetwork and now have something like 2+E10
>channels. Among them is a HD network named "Rush HD".
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>Last night they ran a program called "Pit of Swallows: A Grasp for Life", which
>detailed a guy named Dean Potter (apparently a famous rock climber, claims to
>have solo'd El Cap and Half Dome in the same day) and his attempt to walk a
>tightline (aka slackline) across the top of Golondrinas. I think the footage
>was shot in 2004. As far as I can tell, the line is actually a piece of one
>inch webbing with severa nylon cords running through the center.
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>As a part of prepping they BASE jump into pit and check out the landing area in
>case he falls off the line and needs his parachute. On a practice jump his
>chute twists and he starts plummeting towards the wall of the pit. He recovers
>just in the nick of time, only to fly straight into the rope (now securely tied
>to the wall and out of the way from the jumps....) which collapes his chute
>again. Dean then grabs the rope and slides bare handed the rest of the way
>down to the floor of Golondrinas, walking aways with bandaged hands and an
>aborted attempt at walking the tightline.
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>In summarizing his experience, he said that he felt like "the cave and the
>swallows didn't want him there..."
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>If nothing else, it is some fairly good HD footage of the pit.
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>AA
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