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kleinbl00  ·  4788 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It all looks so reasonable until about a minute forty.
know how Dan Osman died?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX7p3jfr0mA

Miscalculating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6YsM5Rh0Y

The ropes that hold you against death when they're fresh and shiny new may not do it the second time after you let them sit out for three weeks. And you know what? While the ropes say "good for ten falls" and "do not leave exposed to the elements" they say a lot of other shit, too.

There's too much engineering that people don't understand in adventuring, and too much adventuring that people don't understand in engineering. It's a bad place to put your life, in my opinion.