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That's not a Go Pro video. This is a Go Pro video

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Created by Gorgo > 9 months ago, 17 Sep 2010
Gorgo
VIC, 5127 posts
17 Sep 2010 10:02AM
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colinwill78
VIC, 1395 posts
17 Sep 2010 1:55PM
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AAAArgh, get me down!!

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
17 Sep 2010 12:25PM
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That was amazing onya Gorgo...

Gorgo
VIC, 5127 posts
17 Sep 2010 2:43PM
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I'm guessing that a good quality wave could provide a similar sense of drama and view.

The thing that makes this video outstanding is how he framed his shots and kept his head still while shooting.

byf
WA, 518 posts
17 Sep 2010 12:58PM
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Awesome Gorgo. 10 minutes of peace and beauty. Thanks.
Very hard for me to understand the absolute enormity of the place when the highest i have been is atop Bluff Knoll. I have not even seen or felt snow.
I should get out more

japie
NSW, 7146 posts
17 Sep 2010 3:04PM
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That captures the essence of why I am so fascinated by paragliding. Absolutley spectacular.

Something that has always fascinated me when I see cable cars going to the top of precipices like that is how the **** do they get the building materials and cable up there in the first place?

And that walking along the snow ridge, bit too much for my vertigo

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
17 Sep 2010 1:18PM
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japie said...

Something that has always fascinated me when I see cable cars going to the top of precipices like that is how the **** do they get the building materials and cable up there in the first place?



Yes, how do they do it, helicopter? Thats the only thing I can think of??

waxman
SA, 1390 posts
17 Sep 2010 3:02PM
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Definitely big helicopter, there are some monsters around now. I have seen a heli pulling cables before looked impressive, but you have to think what would happen if everything went wrong. A heli coming down on to a heap of workers would make quite a mess.

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
17 Sep 2010 7:22PM
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Wow - that was simply spectacular - thanks for sharing

japie
NSW, 7146 posts
17 Sep 2010 10:14PM
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waxman said...

Definitely big helicopter, there are some monsters around now. I have seen a heli pulling cables before looked impressive, but you have to think what would happen if everything went wrong. A heli coming down on to a heap of workers would make quite a mess.


Of course! I recall seeing one over the Salisbury Plain in England transporting a tank. Looked like a giant two headed caterpillar. The cable would be winched into place using the summit as the anchor.

Back in the eighties the missus and I went on the chair lift on the isle of whight. She is **** scared of frights but it's take of is real smooth and then you suddenly go over a cliff and the world drops away.

She panicked and bloody near dropped the dog

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
18 Sep 2010 10:23PM
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cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
19 Sep 2010 12:28PM
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I hated that GD. It gave me vertigo.

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
19 Sep 2010 10:37AM
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It didn't me..but people that have bad vertigo said
just watching it brings on the fear

Sorry cisco

Flusha
WA, 20 posts
19 Sep 2010 11:44AM
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I found that really horrible to watch as well. How do you build somthing like that??
Much repect to those guys. At the end the guy said that there is no quick way down?? Wrong.

GypsyDrifter
WA, 2371 posts
19 Sep 2010 12:06PM
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^^^^ base jump

shannon8888
NSW, 517 posts
19 Sep 2010 8:09PM
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^^^^ and a wing suit

japie
NSW, 7146 posts
19 Sep 2010 8:30PM
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Thanks, that put me off me dinner completeley and I only watched a third of it

desertyank
1264 posts
19 Sep 2010 7:57PM
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Major stones on those guys!!! I'm thinking the helmet's sole purpose is to help ID the body if he falls; certainly wouldn't prevent injury

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
19 Sep 2010 11:44PM
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It just got worse and worse as he went up and I saw him put that hook over points that were not enclosed and it made my feet feel fuzzy. Bwbwbwbwbwbw.

The guy and his mate have to be base jumpers and para gliders in their spare time.

No sane person would do that without a parachute.
Maybe that is the way they get their jollies off after the maintenance. Base jump off and para glide down.

Legal and paid "Base Jumping"????

It needs to be put in context though. If those guys DO wear parachutes, it is safer for them to do that than it is for me to go up the 40 ft mast on my yacht.

If I fall from there it is splat. Those guys have options as there is a lot of air between them and the ground.

No apology needed GD. I could have exited the video anytime but it had me facinated.



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