[eastbay]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9042618169


Watch This!!

[strider3700]

The climb he does is a 5.7 Slightly more difficult then climbing a ladder but not much. For how good of a climber he is it's kind of like you or me walking up some stairs. The leap in the middle is all for show and not necessary I'm sure.

Having said that nerves would kill me without a rope and I'd screw up and die. With a rope it's just a long climb.

[BlisteredWhippet]

My palms sweat just watching that.

Insane.

[rwwff]

The 16-year old still left crashing around my skull desperately wants to escape when he sees something like that. I might have to go run a bit to remind him why the answer is...

NO.

[Skye]

He's dead now;/


Outside Magazine described the fall as follows:

"I watched his headlamp disappearing into the dark," says Daisher, "going and going, and in about ten seconds I saw the rope straighten, heard it start to whip—what Dano called flossing the sky—but it didn't make the full whipping sound. Then I heard him yell—'Ahhhhhh'—and a crash like a tree had broken in half, and I thought, 'Holy s---, he's swung into one of them.' I pictured him down there hanging from a limb, injured and bloody. I yelled to him, got on the radio. Nothing. Quiet. Then I started freaking."

Daisher rappelled to the base as fast as he could and followed the beam of his headlamp through the rocks and trees until he finally saw the ragged rope end dangling from branches above him. Then he spotted Osman, lying peacefully on his side. He checked for a pulse and, when he found none, sprinted off through the boulder field to a parking lot pay phone where he made a panicked call to Fritsch. "Dano's dead," he said, crying. "He's on the ground, I just saw him, he's dead."

Also from Outside (Online) "November 18, and said he needed a ride to Yosemite so he could take the rig down; the rangers had threatened to confiscate it. The two of them left late on the 20th, arrived the next day, and climbed to the tower that night. But the following afternoon, instead of removing the rig, Osman made a 925-foot jump on ropes that had been hanging in intermittent rain and snow for more than a month.

At 4:15 on the afternoon of the 23d, Daisher made a jump and lowered himself to the ground with rope carried in a waist pack. When he got back to the tower at about 5:30, he found Osman hurrying to reset the rig, trying to beat the encroaching darkness to make his grand jump.

"I had a bad feeling about it," says Daisher. "He was jumping from a different angle than we usually did, which meant he had to jump over the retrieval line, which he wasn't even going to be able to see, as dark as it was by then. And he'd added 75 feet to the rope, which was about three times more than he usually added from one jump to the next. So he was jumping on a thousand feet of line, which meant he was going to be only about 150 feet off the ground when he stopped. I was really skeptical. I kept saying, 'I don't think so, Dano, I don't like this.'"

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damn

[Eli]

I was simply going to post that the guy is going to die!
but apparently that has already happened.

What a friggin tool.
I feel sorry for his parents who most likely out lived the guy.

[gnm]

Tool? Hardly. He was an extremely talented climber. He knew damn well all the risks involved. And he chose to take them anyway. Some people live on the edge, some aren't willing. Will you end up choking your last gasp on a ventilator in some hospital ward, or getting creamed in that oh so unexpected car wreck which is never going to happen to you even though if you drive everyday you are likely taking bigger risks than Dan Ozman. When you meet your end will you regret that you never took those risks? I agree its not for everyone, but don't dis him for being out there. Another famous rock climber and risk taker, Wolfgang Gullich, was killed in an accident on the autobahn on his way to an interview...

Rest In Peace Dan...

-G


<disclaimer poster _might_ be an avid rock climber, hang-glider, and motorcyclist>

[mgibbons19]

Did he have chidren before he died, or was he naturally selected out of the gene pool?

[PenultimateManStanding]

What about people who aren't rock climbers or car racers or who are just waiting to get impaled by a stingray? There's always the Leaving Las Vegas option if you don't want to be an old ventilated diaper-wearing, slobbering prune, beaten by cruel orderlies in the Old Folks home. All Hail the Big D!

[LinusK]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'I') was simply going to post that the guy is going to die!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('LinusK', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', 'I') was simply going to post that the guy is going to die!

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', 'D')id he have chidren before he died, or was he naturally selected out of the gene pool?

[Eli]

Let me rephrase that,... the guy was a total tool.

He died while jumping off a cliff at night!

I am no good with statistics but I bet jumping off a cliff at night is far more dangerous than driving in a car your life.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'g')nm wrote "though if you drive everyday you are likely taking bigger risks than Dan Ozman."

[gnm]

Sorry, you've still got the wrong word... tool is the one thing he wasn't..

wikipedia "tool"

And no it wasn't "night" when he jumped. Not that it would make any difference.

A better analogy would be a professional motorcyle racer doing a 100mph wheelie. I expect they generally can pull that off without a hitch. Or can your average man scale 500 feet of 5'10 free solo and expect to live?

If you are talking about an teenager with thongs and a muscle shirt trying the same on his brand new bike then yes, thats an idiot...

-G

[Eli]

Tool is also slang for an idiot or a dick around these parts.

But I will cut the guy some slack (gnm) he died doing what he loved and there are much worse ways to go as we all know.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')hich meant he had to jump over the retrieval line, which he wasn't even going to be able to see, as dark as it was by then.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Eli', '
')You could always take PMN's way out too by snorting blow of a hooker's ass in Vegas until you die.

[kam30en]

Something tells me that kind of guy (yah, I know he's dead) wouldn't be afraid of peak oil. I think I'd sooner face peak oil than climb that rock wall.

[bobcousins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'T')he climb he does is a 5.7 Slightly more difficult then climbing a ladder but not much. For how good of a climber he is it's kind of like you or me walking up some stairs. The leap in the middle is all for show and not necessary I'm sure.