San Francisco brothers set record crossing Yosemite on a highline

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San Francisco brothers set record crossing Yosemite on a highline

Associated Press
June 20, 2021 | Updated: June 20, 2021 5:31 a.m.



In this Saturday, June 12, 2021, photo provided by Scott Oller Films, highliner Daniel Monterrubio walks the 2,800-foot-long line off Taft Point above Yosemite Valley in Yosemite, Calif. (Scott Oller/Scott Oller Films via AP)Scott Oller/AP

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.

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Completing a line means carefully heel-toeing from one end to the other while wearing a waist-harness that links to a 3-inch steel ring around the webbing. In a fall, walkers remain attached, but they have to haul themselves back up to balance or shimmy back to an anchor point while dangling upside down.

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. That is freaking crazy ... Felt brave to get up on top of Half Dome with the cable ladder thing

Some people do some insanely bold stuff.

WOW.

Nice shot of Upper Yosemite Falls in the background.