160ft Abseil

[chishnfips]

Hello folks,

here are some pics of an abseil I did for charity on Saturday, it was 160ft high, what a view there was from the top.

here is the chimney from the ground

Here is another pic

 

[Bloo]

yikes ! Me and hights don't go - not for love nor money
But well done - hope you raised lots of money

 

[jimbooo]

awesome, i wanna go. have you done it before or was this a first for you?

 

[chishnfips]

No I have done it before, never this high though.

I raised £128 altogether, I think on the day they raised £20,000 or there abouts for a cancer charity B)

 

[jimbooo]

well done, now you've got your "feet wet"

try this

i'd recommend it every day of the week - maybe twice a day.....

how about it - raise £200 and you can jump for FREE. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[boozybears]

Ok..silly question, but what's an abseil? )

(I'm thinking it's what we call a hang-glider?)

ooh and Jimboo that DOES look fun!

 

[Puffer_freak]

Oooh! Lucky!

An abseil is where you are on top of something high (a cliff, bu8ilding, tree whatever) and you are attached by rope. You then walk down the side of whatevcer it is backwards, going as fast or as slow as you want - I think that's about right anyway...

 

[Bloo]

Jimboo - it looks totally awesome, but I wouldn't do that even if someone PAID me £10,000,000.00 to do it !

 

[chishnfips]

Jimbo that looks amazing, I have always contemplated doing that, I just dont know if I would have the guts to jump out of a perfectly good plane. lol, saying that though wjat an experience that would be, I reckon I would do it only if the chute opened itself.

 

[jimbooo]

the pics are of a tandem skydive (i've done 2 and no thats not me in the pic). the guy in the yellow is the student.

you are strapped to the belly of the instructor, when in the plane your not in control of anything, just hanging from his harness. he then walks over to the OPEN DOOR at 14000 ft and says DONT LOOK DOWN.

yeah right. while your contemplating how you got yourself into this situation (and noticing the camera girl who in the meantime has climbed out of the door and is now OUTSIDE the plane hanging onto a tiny hand rail) the instructor literally dives forward. the next thing you know your staring up at a plane the size of a pin head and you can see the clouds coming at you FAST. obviously the instructor pulls the shoot and everything

14000 ft to 3000ft in 45 seconds

AWESOME...... you gotta do it

the best thing is you dont do anything. strap on and go with the flow.

my girlfriend (who is a typical girly girl, gets all panicky on a mountain road etc...) did one with me on my 2nd trip. i've never seen her so scared and happy in the same day. it really is one of those must do once in your life kind of things.

go for it.

check out www.skydivesibson.com

they know what there doing, my instructor was the ex british world record holder 6 years on the trot....

 

[chishnfips]

I am definately going to check that out, I wonder who the first person to try out a parachute was?


brave person

 

[Bloo]

I wonder who the first person to try out a parachute was?

Or brave dog !

Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809) a Frenchman was probably the first person to actually use a parachute for an emergency. In 1785, he dropped a dog in a basket, to which a parachute was attached, from a balloon high in the air.

from Parachute Inventors

 

[jimbooo]

having a "quiet day" at work bloozoo?

anyway that just enforces my point. even in the early 1800's when parachutes were just being invented it took 44 years for the first person to die....

not a bad safety record even for 200 years ago.

go on bloozoo you know you wanna drop through the sky at 140mph. whats the matter? wimp?


sorry chishnfips i seem to have hijacked your thread, well done on the abseil, i've done a few of those before. to be honest the scary part (ie just about to go over the edge) is not much worse in a skydive.

160ft or 14000ft either way if it doesn't go to plan your gonna die!! simple really, get your head round that and you can do anything...

 

[Bloo]

having a "quiet day" at work bloozoo?

anyway that just enforces my point. even in the early 1800's when parachutes were just being invented it took 44 years for the first person to die....

not a bad safety record even for 200 years ago.

go on bloozoo you know you wanna drop through the sky at 140mph. whats the matter? wimp?


sorry chishnfips i seem to have hijacked your thread, well done on the abseil, i've done a few of those before. to be honest the scary part (ie just about to go over the edge) is not much worse in a skydive.

160ft or 14000ft either way if it doesn't go to plan your gonna die!! simple really, get your head round that and you can do anything...

Uhm kinda ) though procrastinating is actually a more accurate description.....

nah, if we were meant to fly we would have had wings not for me thanks lol. I mean it, no one could pay me to do that. I seriously doubt I'd do it even if my life depended on it - I'll probably die of heart failure just jumping out of the plane anyway

 

[chishnfips]

hey no probs jimbo it's all relative, thats a good point you dead if you fall either way, you just have longer to think about it when you jump out of a plane.