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Many die. Are you surprised from watching the videos that it's dangerous?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_solo_climbing#Notable_acc...

One of my favorite climbers and free soloists, Dan Osman, also died in an accident but not while free soloing. He was doing a 1000 ft rope jump (jumping from a cliff while connected to a climbing rope and catching oneself while trying not to slam back into the cliff face) when his rope snapped.

Here's two videos of him doing a rope jump and of him free soloing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EilwLq7w1bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYbwZQ-QnMY (note the "dyno" at 1:09)




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