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January 9, 2007
Dumb luck - ALMOST a Darwin Award winner
Can you believe this..........I guess it takes all kinds to make a world. I get the willys just looking at the pictures................
* * * W-O-W ..... I mean , 900 meters - - - that's about 1,000 ft. in human terms . . . . ! ! !
This is a case of photographer photographs photographer. The following photographs were taken by photographer Hans van de Vorst at the Grand Canyon, Arizona. The descriptions are his own. The identity of the photographer IN the photos is unknown.
I was simply stunned seeing this guy standing on this solitary rock IN the Grand Canyon.
The canyon's depth is 900 meters here. The rock on the right is next to the canyon and safe.
Watching this guy on his thong sandals, with a camera and a tripod I asked myself 3 questions:
1. How did he climb that rock? 2. Why not taking that sunset picture on that rock to the right, which is perfectly safe? 3. How will he get back?
and prepared himself for the jump. This took about 2 minutes.
At that point he had the full attention of the crowd.
After that, he jumped on his thong sandals... The canyon's depth is 900 meters here.
Now you can see that the adjacent rock is higher so he tried to land lower, which is quite steep and tried to use his one hand to grab the rock.
He has a camera, a tripod and also a plastic bag, all on his shoulder or in his left hand.
Only his right hand is available to grab the rock and the weight of his stuff is a problem.
He lands low on this flip flops both his right hand and right foot slips away... At that moment I take this shot.
He pushes his body against the rock.
He waits for a few seconds, throws his stuff on the rock, climbs and walks away.
This nifty piece of OfficeSpam was submitted by Tim.
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Comments
It's not as impressive as it looks--the photos conveniently leave out the ledge between the two rocks. It would have been a ten foot fall (or thereabouts).
Now, if he had fallen ten feet and rolled, he'd still be a goner, but....
Posted by: m at January 12, 2007 4:23 PM
is it a true pic or is it photoshop works? man... if that is me i pee in my pants!!!
Posted by: farahashburn at January 16, 2007 9:28 PM
Hate to be the one to point this out: 900 meters is nowhere near 1,000 feet. Cool pictures though!
Posted by: NathanTheTemp at September 19, 2007 2:24 PM
Good point. I surprised you are the first to point it out.
Posted by: Cube Dweller at September 19, 2007 2:31 PM
No, esto no es cierto,
el viento a esta altura es tan grande que no puede sostener ese tripode, el pelo estuviera mas alborotado
Seria demasiada coincidencia dos locos tan locos en un mismo sitio casi, ademas de que las fotos se ven distintas como con modificaciones...
Posted by: Camilo at October 8, 2007 3:50 PM
photoshopped... id say. of course im only stating my opinion but hes got a funny edge around his layer, the sign of a bad photoshop paste. his lighting doesnt really match. and who would be that stupid?
Posted by: fake at November 15, 2007 2:23 PM
take a look at this:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/canyonleap.asp
Posted by: Roger at July 18, 2008 7:18 PM
