Occurred On: Jul-30-2011
Fearless free climber who scales mountains with just a pick axe
Race you to the top! fearless free climber who scales mountains with just a pick axe
Swiss daredevil made it up 4,000ft face in just 2hr 21min
With just an ice-axe in his hands and crampons on his feet, this fearless climber faces death with each strike of his pick as he races to scale a 4,000ft icy rockface with no ropes to stop his fall.
The stomach-churning images show world-class mountaineer, Ueli Steck, 35, from Ringgenberg, Switzerland smashing the record for scaling the north face of the Grandes Jorasses -part of Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc.
The spectacular pictures were captured by a British extreme photographer in a helicopter 13,000ft in the air.
whoa, i just about ill when he was running across the ridge. the rest of the time i had my heart in my mouth.
thanks for posting awesome
This was in the Banff film festival this year...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff_Mountain_Film_Festival
Highly recommend seeing it next year, every year they show different short adventure movies, totally awe-inspiring 
In Chris lilley's first tv series, 'We can be heroes', there was a lady who wanted to be the first to roll along the ground from Perth to Uluru, unfortunately she died because she got a gum nut stuck in her nose, another one of those extreme sports
he must be on the drug that killed river phoenix ........awe inspiring none the less 
