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Iain Miller writes:

On the 30th April 2018, Nikki Bradley climbed to the summit of Bristi Sea Stack,  this is a technical rock climb on the seaward face of the stack. The climb involved two pitches of technical rock climbing and a 100ft abseil from the summit to the base of the stack.

Nikki Bradley diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer (Ewing’s Sarcoma) at sixteen and the receiver of a second total right hip replacement at the age of twenty six, Nikki has been on a truly unique journey. So unique in fact, she has been informed by her consultant that she is currently one of less than ten people worldwide to have lived through what she has.  Nikki is currently in training for her hardest challenge yet

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A commercial/stunt for LG Korea’s new K94SGN cordless battery powered vacuum cleaners featuring rock climber Sierra Blair Coyle scaling a 140m glass fronted office building, Ethan Hunt style, using suction power alone.

Although attached to safety lines in case of catastophic suction failure, she didn’t need them.

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Last month, fellow explorers and filmmakers George Kourounis and Sam Cossman descended 400m into the Marum crater – an active volcano on the Vanuatu  archipelago in the South Pacific.

It was a dry heat.

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Fearless Russian nutjobs Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makharov ascend the tower crane working on the as yet unfinished world’s second tallest building.

They’ve since posted pictures and a full account of their adventure (in Russian) on LiveJournal.

Related: Long Way Down

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(H/T: Noel)


Leading exponents of ‘skywalking’ – the latest craze among thrill-seeking Russian youngsters – photographers Vitaly Raskalov and Alexander Remnov scale towers, bridges and skyscrapers without safety equipment in order to capture and publish the vertiginous, butterfly-inducing photos above.

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Utah State University “Ascending Aggies” team recently won first prize out of 33 teams in the Air Force’s contest to get four soldiers over a very tall wall. They developed what they call a PVAC, or Personal Vacuum Assisted Climber and it works just as you’d imagine: a loud-as-hell vacuum strapped to your back connects to two suction cups and lets you climb pretty much anything, even if the surface wouldn’t have been so good for regular suction cups.

EXCLUSIVE: This Amazing New Gear Allows Users To Climb Up Nearly Any Type Of Wall (Business Insider)

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