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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i had come across this story a couple weeks ago
A 22-year-old Utah man was killed trying to swing through the opening of a 110-foot-tall sandstone arch in a stunt made so popular on YouTube that state authorities recently banned the daredevil activity by commercial outfitters.
Kyle Lee Stocking, of West Jordan, left too much slack in the rope he was using, and it sent him crashing into the sandstone base of Corona Arch near Moab, Grand County sheriff's officials said. He died Sunday afternoon.
Viral videos have bolstered the activity, which involves swinging wildly from ropes through arch and canyon openings.
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Crazy. I took a fall lead climbing from about 15 feet up last year. So that's 15 feet to the nearest piece of gear, then 15 feet further then rope stretch. All in all a little over 35 feet and I thought that was nutty. Now granted there was a lot of shit around to hit and I got pretty lucky.