Thursday 28 November, 2024

Here's what it looks like to fall 100ft down a mountainside

In the first person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3C799_ruzQ

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CLIMBER MARK ROBERTS was scaling Mount Snowdon in northern Wales when a falling chunk of ice knocked him off the slope.

He was wearing a helmet camera, and wasn’t seriously injured (though lucky to be alive). Here’s what it looked like in the first person.

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Here's what it looks like to fall 100ft down a mountainside

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