Gear-addicts.com » extreme http://gear-addicts.com Outdoor gear with a dash of A.D.D. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Let’s just skip all the puny little waterfalls and run Angel Falls! http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/lets-just-skip-all-the-puny-little-waterfalls-and-run-angel-falls/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/lets-just-skip-all-the-puny-little-waterfalls-and-run-angel-falls/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:46:11 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=1553 tyler-bradt

Sadly no pictures or videos of the record breaking drop yet but Kayak Session just posted the first interview with Tyler Bradt.  There are some good pics of him running some other big waterfalls as well as some pics of Palouse Falls.

In March, Brazilian Pedro Oliveira ran a 127-foot falls in Brazil breaking Tyler Bradt’s former 107-foot record (alexandra falls, NWT canada). There was huge media coverage worldwide about Olivia’s record. While most people imagined this record would stay for a very long time, Tyler Bradt just ran the 186 ft (nearly 60-meter) Palouse Falls in Washington State, smashing Olivia’s record by 59 ft!!!
In an exclusive first interview for Kayak Session mag, Tyler answers some of the burning questions everyone has been wondering about since the news came out…

It sounds like the run will be in “Dream Result” coming out some time next spring.  "The footage will be out soon in the media."

Via: Outside

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]]> http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/lets-just-skip-all-the-puny-little-waterfalls-and-run-angel-falls/feed/ 1 So you don’t think 127ft is high enough? http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/so-you-dont-think-127ft-is-high-enough/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/so-you-dont-think-127ft-is-high-enough/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:00:10 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=1466 Then lets do 186!!

There's no pictures or videos yet but on the 21st Tribe posted a one sentence saying  Tyler Bradt successfully dropped 186ft at Palouse Falls (+46° 39' 49.00", -118° 13' 25.00").  Looks like Rush Sturges did get it on video so hopefully that won't take to long to surface.

palouse_falls

Via:
The Goat
Outside

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]]> http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/so-you-dont-think-127ft-is-high-enough/feed/ 1 Ueli Gegenschatz http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/ueli-gegenschatz/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/ueli-gegenschatz/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:38:23 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=1144 TED has a lot of interesting stuff. Some is very cutting edge technology presentations that probably wouldn't mesh well with this site. I do love wingsuits though.

]]> http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/ueli-gegenschatz/feed/ 0 I have a brilliant idea!! http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/i-have-a-brilliant-idea/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/i-have-a-brilliant-idea/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:31:20 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=1040 Let's base jump from the worlds tallest building! What's a couple months in a Near East prison? ONE HAS A WING SUIT!! (sorry, I'm watching the video for the first time as I write this and I love wing suits).  I wonder what these extreme Euro boys do for money?

]]> http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/i-have-a-brilliant-idea/feed/ 1 Bored? Not enough adrenilane in your life? Paddle off a 127ft waterfall http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/bored-not-enough-adrenilane-in-your-life-paddle-off-a-127ft-waterfall/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/bored-not-enough-adrenilane-in-your-life-paddle-off-a-127ft-waterfall/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:24:31 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=1024 Well this looks like fun (By fun I mean almost scarier than asking a girl out)

The moment record-breaking kayaker plunged 127 FEET off waterfall... and survived (Daily Mail)
Daredevil recounts 127-foot waterfall plunge (MSNBC)

]]> http://gear-addicts.com/2009/04/bored-not-enough-adrenilane-in-your-life-paddle-off-a-127ft-waterfall/feed/ 2 No one knows if you wet yourself in a wetsuit http://gear-addicts.com/2009/03/no-one-knows-if-you-wet-yourself-in-a-wetsuit/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/03/no-one-knows-if-you-wet-yourself-in-a-wetsuit/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:42:16 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=1034 Tao Berman drops 98 ft. (30m) waterfall in Banff
Tao Berman.jpg

Source (Photograph by Brandon Knapp)
Thanks for the Red Circles National Geographic...

]]> http://gear-addicts.com/2009/03/no-one-knows-if-you-wet-yourself-in-a-wetsuit/feed/ 0 If this site makes money… http://gear-addicts.com/2009/01/if-this-site-makes-money/ http://gear-addicts.com/2009/01/if-this-site-makes-money/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:44:21 +0000 Grant http://gear-addicts.com/?p=740 ...I am getting into this.

The later part of this video has been around for a long time, but I have never seen the first part before. The video quality is the best that I have come across.

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

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