Russian crane antics - Page 2 - Laughs or Links

Dan Osman died for reasons unrelated to actually climbing though which is pretty amazing.

I guess you could consider rigging rope and checking gear as a part of "climbing skills" but you know what I mean.

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05-09-2013 , 01:34 PM

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Alchemist

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http://englishrussia.com/2013/05/06/...-on-the-crane/

Can never have too many of these, right? This guy was kind enough to share some first-person perspective. Some NSFW music.

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06-05-2013 , 06:59 PM

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IcyHotMonkey

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He doesn't start walking out til around 1:20.

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06-05-2013 , 11:42 PM

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westside77

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Could never see myself doing these stunts. Never understood why these people would take the risk. Entertaining to watch though.

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06-06-2013 , 12:43 AM

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grando1.0

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WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF

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06-06-2013 , 10:42 AM

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Shiftyeye7

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i get sweaty palms as soon as i see this thread has been bumped

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06-06-2013 , 08:54 PM

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"I wasn't scared," the climber said. "You can't afford to be scared when you're hanging by your fingertips. I did it for the adventure." He was philosophical about it as well. "Life's too short to be sat around worrying about your future. You have no time to waste," he went on. "I didn't go up there to die. I went up there to live."
Kingston, describes himself as a "professional freerunner" and says he has already completed similar stunts on cranes in Los Angeles and Italy.
"I want to just continue travelling," he said, "meeting awesome people, living my life to the fullest and capturing as much of it as I can so that when I'm old and wrinkly, I can look back over years and years-worth of footage and think 'man that was cool'."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...icle-1.1363814