Free-climber plummets off rock face, dusts himself down and strolls away

Julian Lines calls this one, ‘how not to climb’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_WzYni4QjOI

WHEN IN SCOTLAND, go climbing a rock face with ‘nae pads’.

Well, maybe not quite, but that’s what Julian Lines got up to recently. In the above video [if you can excuse the triplication of the image], Lines slips halfway up his ascent of the rock and falls 30 feet straight down.

We were expecting a rescue helicopter and a stretcher to be the next objects in view. Instead it’s Lines again, just dusting himself down as if he had come down from the attic.

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