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01-15-07, 07:37 PM
Everybody remembers this photo
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7729/jumpoq9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
"This is a case of photographer photographs photographer," reads the caption on a set of images currently circulating online.
The photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216200392/in/set-72157594222213140/), originally posted on Flickr by Dutch cameraman Hans van de Vorst, show another photographer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/316555153/in/set-72157594222213140/) apparently
making a death-defying leap (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216877526/in/set-72157594222213140/) from one rock formation to another (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/217713707/in/set-72157594222213140/) thousands of feet above the floor of the Grand Canyon.
Are the pictures authentic? Yes, but that doesn't mean they tell the whole story.
Though the daredevil maneuver captured on film was dangerous, to be sure, the photos are cropped in such a way as to exaggerate the peril.
What you don't see is a rocky ledge (visible in another set of photos (http://www.trebuchet.com/articles/grandcanyon/faq.html) by Dana R. Watson) that connects the two formations about 10 feet below.
Mind you, I don't advise trying it yourself, but others have performed the same stunt and survived to tell the tale, including a guy named Ron (http://www.trebuchet.com/articles/grandcanyon/jump.html)
(photographed by Watson) and an unnamed youngster (http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/34500182) (photographed by Jeff Hall).
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7729/jumpoq9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
"This is a case of photographer photographs photographer," reads the caption on a set of images currently circulating online.
The photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216200392/in/set-72157594222213140/), originally posted on Flickr by Dutch cameraman Hans van de Vorst, show another photographer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/316555153/in/set-72157594222213140/) apparently
making a death-defying leap (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/216877526/in/set-72157594222213140/) from one rock formation to another (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansvandevorst/217713707/in/set-72157594222213140/) thousands of feet above the floor of the Grand Canyon.
Are the pictures authentic? Yes, but that doesn't mean they tell the whole story.
Though the daredevil maneuver captured on film was dangerous, to be sure, the photos are cropped in such a way as to exaggerate the peril.
What you don't see is a rocky ledge (visible in another set of photos (http://www.trebuchet.com/articles/grandcanyon/faq.html) by Dana R. Watson) that connects the two formations about 10 feet below.
Mind you, I don't advise trying it yourself, but others have performed the same stunt and survived to tell the tale, including a guy named Ron (http://www.trebuchet.com/articles/grandcanyon/jump.html)
(photographed by Watson) and an unnamed youngster (http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/34500182) (photographed by Jeff Hall).