Slacklife BC was invited to participate in the 5th Shenxianju Highline Challenge. Shenxianju is one of the most majestical highline locations! Special thank you to the amazing Anthony Boulay, who captures the raw beauty and shares it with us in this video.
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Amazing Race Canada is the most-watched Canadian TV Show. For this stop, contestants how to test their fears and skills as they were challenged with a 30m highline walk from roof-top to rooftop, high above the busy city below. If they fall … they fall – 15m, before a bungee cord catches them. Once successfully crossing the gap, contestants would receive their next clue and continue on the race.
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For this stunt, contestants will be required to cross a 1″ piece of Tantalus Polyester Webbing from one roof-top to another at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Contestants will be secured using an overhead safety line and will be attached to a 5-meter bungee. Contestants will also have a rope to assist their balance during their attempts. A hauling system will be in place to retrieve contestants when they fall.
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On August 2nd, 2o15, Spencer Seabrooke successfully walked “The Itus”, a 64 meter long, 290 meter high highline atop The Chief in Squamish BC without any safety equipment, breaking the previous world record highline freesolo set by Andy Lewis.
“The Itus”, established by SlackLifeBC, had originally battled and consumed Spencer for quite some time. From the day we first rigged the line, he talked about it being the world record freesolo line, and I knew that someday it would be. Having pushed his highline and longline personal bests further and further, Spencer was ready. Tensioning the line with only a line grip and high-slide, he walked the line once with the harness. Feeling confident, Spencer then removed all safety equipment, stepped out on the line and proceeded to break the world record freesolo.
To get an idea of how epic “The Itus” is, checkout the SlackLifeBC video. 290 meters high = 7 seconds to the ground if you fall!
Here is a photo of slack-liner Friedi, who was the first one out biggest line in Canada. The 133-metre long line is nearly 300 metres off the ground.
Friedi managed walk this monster line. Others tried and made great progress — To be walked another day
SlacklifeBC was featured in Mountain Life Magazine Summer 2015 addition. Read the article and checkout the pictures online
A great article and excellent photos of a weekend up on the Chief. Correction to the article — This was not the highline festival, just a regular weekend up on the chief.
This amazing rock formation captured our attention from the first time we laid eyes on it. The rock spire, with the crashing waves below, situated for the perfect sunset walk.
No disrespect was intended with this action, we admire the rock for its beauty in the same way many other people do.
This walk covered by several media outlets
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By Greg Rasmussen, CBC News Posted: Dec 31, 2014
[/fusion_text][fusion_separator style_type=”single solid” top_margin=”” bottom_margin=”20″ sep_color=”” icon=”” width=”” class=”” id=””/][fusion_text]After a two-hour hike in Stawamus Chief Provincial Park, Brent Plumley looks out over a sheer drop, estimating it’s about 275 metres down to the rocks below.
In case of a fall, it would be “long enough to think before you hit the ground,” he says with a laugh.
Plumley is part of a crew of people who routinely gather to practise highlining, a sport that takes the lofty altitude of tightrope walking, throws in the up-and-down bounce of trampolining and adds the side-to-side action of slalom skiing.
If you have a fear of heights, highlining is definitely not for you.
The basic premise is to take a piece of nylon webbing a couple of centimetres wide and string it between two points. In Plumley’s case, the line runs over a rocky gorge high in the mountains of British Columbia.
Plumley and his crew secure ropes and nylon webbing to a series of anchors drilled into the rock. Although it looks somewhat flimsy, they make sure there’s lots of redundancy, with extra anchors and a safety line.
But even a seasoned highliner like Plumley can be given to second thoughts, especially on a blustery December day.
These highlines in B.C.’s Stawamus Chief Provincial Park are up to 40 metres long, and an exhilarating 275 metres above a gully. (Chris Corday/CBC)
He says that every time he steps out onto the line, “my heart sinks, my hands shake. It takes that getting over it, and the more you do it, the more comfortable you get and the more fun you start having.”
Alongside Plumley on this day is Spencer Seabrooke, one of Canada’s most accomplished highliners, who acknowledges that he and the crew “might be of a specific mindset,” but insists “none of us are crazy.”
Looking down at the rocks below, an observer might beg to differ.
Seabrooke says there’s a simple guideline.
“The one rule of highlining is, ‘No dying.’ Here we just say, ‘Don’t die.’”
Highlining — and its lower-altitude version, slacklining — started in the Yosemite Valley in California.
Seabrooke says it was created by bored rock climbers messing around with their gear and creating impromptu tightropes.
“It really is just a bunch of hippie rock climbers and dirt bags just committed to living life to the fullest.”
Seabrooke and his fellow highliners are hoping to spread the thrill of this sport to others. They routinely stage demos and welcome newcomers.
Krista Cawley is still learning the ropes, so to speak. She started highlining several months ago, and claims it has a zen-like quality.
The highliners say the sport may look extreme, but their industrial strength equipment ensures their safety. (Chris Corday/CBC)
“It teaches me things about myself. It’s oftentimes scary and just to get out on the line and experience something new, walk, take a step, you know, fall down, pull yourself up again — it’s been really rewarding, a cool process.”
Highliners are typically roped in with a safety harness, but Seabrooke pushes things further than most. If conditions are right, he walks the lines without a safety harness — meaning that if he falls, he dies.
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