Climbing Lovers' Leap, the video

[dvbl]

Has anyone seen the video of the guy climbing the cliff at Lovers' Leap in California in about 4.5 minutes? I have no real knowledge of rock climbing, Lovers' Leap, etc. And for all I know it could be fake, a brilliant video manipulation job. But it looked pretty real to me, and at the very least it's cool to watch. Looks like Spiderman. Should be able to google it.

p.s. He free-climbed it.

 

[cbcbd]

Yep, Dan Osman... a thread was started about this a while ago with a link to the video:
http://www.vftt.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10447&highlight=osman

...and correction - technically he was "free-soloing"

The book "Fall of the Phantom Lord" is about him. Haven't read it yet, but heard that it's "not a great book, but a very interesting and personal look into the lifestyle of this guy".

 

[timmus]

No links ??

It would have been fun to see it.

Oups ! thanks abcd

 

[adirobdack46r]

I believe this is the video you are talking about, go to the link below to read a caption about the vid then click on "watch speed mountain climbing"
http://www.kahsoon.com/2005/10/17/speed-mountain-climbing
Or this link should take you right to the video
http://www.flurl.com/uploaded/Speed_Climming_1783.html
WOW if it is real.

 

[danno]

A story about the climbing life and death of Dan Osman from Outside Magazine in April 1999. He was obviously an incredible climber, but started a risky new sport that ended his life.

Terminal Velocity
http://outside.away.com/magazine/0499/9904terminal.html

 

[Rick]

Wow, this is the first I heard of this. Really quite amazing, but also quite tragic.