Brothers set record crossing large gap in park on a highline

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two brothers from San Francisco say they have set a record for the longest highline ever walked in both Yosemite National Park and California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Earlier this month, they and a group of friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, 2,800-foot (853-meter)-long line from Taft Point west across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet (488 meters).

Moises and Daniel Monterrubio, brothers who are training to be rope-access technicians, had been thinking about crossing that void for a year.

https://apnews.com/article/sports-lifestyle-e17c7fda64b4a3405b4fcd0420db6908B

[Blues Heron]

1. Imagine the forces involved with a 2800 foot line

these guys know their tensile breaking points and metalurgical failure forces inside and out.