'An Accident...'

In 1966 John Harlin II fell to his death as he neared the top of Mt Eiger's North Face. Includes a re-creation of the fall from the film "Eiger Solo." For more videos from Richard Bangs Adventures, tune into adventures.yahoo.com

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• Adventure
• Travel
• mountain
• climbing
• death
• extreme
• Mt.
• Eiger

[AndiStancuFD]

Dude, what does "re-creation of the fall" tells you ?

[norwejon]

that's a very unfortunate story... at least he died doing what he loved, that is more to be said than some people.

[jflash214]

whats amazing is how much the sport has progressed. Ueli did the climb with no ropes in 2 hours 45 .  That is just mindblowing.

[YoungEscapist]

hmm.. what about climbing with parachutes?

[jbieberloverforever1]

there had been a (breathes hardly) Climb iT (bREATHES hARLDY) DAMN HE KEEPS TALKING AND THEN HE KEEPS BRETAHING AND BREATHING ALL LOUD

[Anhslaught]

@norwejon

I hear this line a lot and I kind of find it funny. What if I played videogames and died playing videogames?

[kgillie17]

It tells you that he couldn't skydive

[virus56777]

dumb ass { gravity is no accident }

[guyontheend]

@norwejon he died doing what he loved. FALLING THOUSANDS OF FEET THINKING ABOUT THE SPLAT

[smokey63]

I recommend to read the book written about John Harlin by his son (also named John Harlin). The book's called "The Eiger Obsession. Facing the Mountain That Killed My Father", published by Simon & Schuster in 2007.

In the book there is no mention of a video that anybody actually filmed the accident, so whatever is shown in this video is not the actual accident...

[oscalove]

plese, in spanish

[8LeoLion8]

Noticed your comment on Toni Kurz, not sure if you have already seen 'The Beckoning Silence' on YouTube. It's a documentary about Toni Kurz and the rest of the team, narrated/presented by Joe Simpson (of Touching the Void fame), it's v good...