Ep. 632: World Record Highlining - Ari DeLashmutt
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The world of highlining is often misunderstood as simply walking from one point to another across a thin webbing hundreds of feet in the air. While it is that, it’s so much more. Ari does an amazing job illustrating, even for the totally unfamiliar, the thrill, focus, and adventure of being out there on the line.
Most of the episode revolves around him and his friend’s ridiculous accomplishment of highlinging 2 km across an abandoned asbestos mine in (appropriately enough) Asbestos, Quebec.
The project was huge, ludicrous, and completely awesome.
Enjoy.
Video on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W2ya3oLHaY
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| 0:00.0 | a very much more backcountry experience and so self-reliance is of the utmost importance yeah |
| 0:06.5 | don't go out on the line unless you're totally ready to take that commitment being out on |
| 0:11.0 | a high line is a commitment of self-reliance that's one of the best part of the whole sport |
| 0:18.3 | this is the adventure sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:24.0 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:28.3 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. I'm just going to go ahead and say it. |
| 0:45.3 | We're going to have Ari back on again one day. |
| 0:47.4 | The guys' adventures just are so vast and so amazing that I really feel like I didn't do this episode justice in a lot of ways, |
| 0:57.0 | but it is incredibly enjoyable. |
| 0:58.8 | And one is because Erie is such an incredibly deep thinker, and that's how you pronounce |
| 1:02.9 | his name, A-R-I, it's Airy. |
| 1:05.4 | And appropriately enough, one of his sports is highlining, which is where you take a slack line or, you know, a piece of webbing, like a, similar to a toe strap or something, but specifically made for this. And you tie it between two points off the ground. You know, a lot of times you see folks doing this, you know, a couple feet off the ground tied between two trees in the park and they'll just balance on the line |
| 1:27.6 | walking back and forth, maybe doing tricks on it. Well, Erie and his friends took this to an |
| 1:32.8 | unprecedented level by stringing together a bunch of webbings to make a two-kilometer |
| 1:38.8 | highlining experience, and that is 1.25 miles literally across an entire giant canyon in the ground, |
| 1:49.0 | an old asbestos mine that had filled up with water and is now this huge hole filled with |
| 1:54.8 | this turquoise water. He and his friends literally took a two kilometer long webbing, |
| 1:59.5 | took it across the entire lake, |
| 2:01.2 | strapped it up, it's, you know, hundreds of feet off the ground, and sags quite a bit |
| 2:06.6 | in the middle, and they literally got on one side, you know, they're tied in, of course, |
| 2:11.6 | and walk, balance themselves, and walk across the other side, 1.25 miles later. And it was taking, it took place |
| 2:20.1 | in the town of asbestos, Quebec. And obviously, that's where they used to mine asbestos, but we |
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