#071: Daniel, Mo, Jewels and Steve on setting the record for longest highline ever walked in California at Yosemite National Park

 
 

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Just last month they set the record for longest highline ever walked in California at Yosemite National Park

Highlining is high altitude slacklining in which a narrow strip of strong, nylon webbing — usually an inch wide and a few millimeters thick — is strung between two anchor points and serves as a kind of balance beam.

They used the help of 18 friends and fellow highliners to navigate their webbing through and across the landscape — hiking lines up from the valley floor, rappelling down from the cliffs above and maneuvering through countless tree branches.

It took a week straight of stringing the line, 2,800 feet in length, from Taft Point west across a series of gullies that plunge as deep as 1,600 feet

Then they walked across!

We dig into the preparation behind it, the mental approach to it all, and how 2 of them actually have a fear of heights!

>> LA Times article 

Daniel Monterrubio @daniel_monterrubio

Steve Griggs @stevegriggs

Jewels Esparza @unit._.of._.energy 

Moises Monterrubio @moecheese2408