A daredevil on a narrow line suspended hundreds of metres above the ground between two cliffs in Squamish, B.C. fell twice, but saved himself, as he walked into the record books.
Spencer Seabrooke wasn’t wearing a safety harness as he made his way across the highline stretching the length of two basketball courts across the North Gully of B.C.’s Stawamus Chief Mountain.
In video posted on YouTube video Tuesday, Seabrooke stumbles twice but catches himself before what could have been a 300-metre fall.
He described the feeling to CTV Vancouver.
“There’s lots of things in your body telling you it’s not right and you shouldn’t be doing this, but in your mind you have to just keep telling yourself what you're capable of and just push yourself,” Seabrooke said.
The 64-metre-long walk earned Seabrooke a world record for the longest solo slackline, beating the previous record by seven metres.
While slacklining is typically practiced close to the ground, Seabrooke’s elevated stunt is the more extreme variation of the sport known as highlining.
With files from CTV Vancouver’s Scott Robert
