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Osman gained a wider audience with his 4 minute 25 second speed solo of the route Bear's Reach (5.7), which was featured in Eric Perlman's film Masters of Stone 4. Osman's double dyno over the large gap between two holds for which the route is named has become an iconic image in American rock climbing. [5]
The route is named for the crux of the second pitch, a long reach between two large holds. The route is best known in popular culture through a viral video featuring Dan Osman speed climbing the route in 4 min 25 sec, and completing a famous ropeless double dyno between two holds. [3] [4] The video was featured in Masters of Stone IV, 1997.
Speed climbing is a climbing ... Beginning at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, speed climbing will be its ... such as Dan Osman climbing Lover's Leap ...
Speed climbing, according to the official Olympic rules, sees two climbers scale identical routes up 15-metre-high wall angled at 95 degrees with safety ropes. Whoever is fastest wins. As athletes ...
TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 03: Nathaniel Coleman of The United States of America during the Sport Climbing Men's Combined, Speed Qualification on day eleven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Aomi ...
That humans can scale a 50-foot wall, scurrying from one small climbing hold to the next, and tap the buzzer in about six seconds makes this new Olympic event startling.
Routes established in this early period included future classics Corrugation Corner, and Bear's Reach, a route made famous half a century later by a viral video in which Dan Osman speed climbed it. The 'Leap gained its current climbing popularity during the 1960s and 1970s, a period during which the first ascents of most notable new lines were ...
The inclusion was proposed by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) in 2015. [1] In September 2015, competition climbing was included in a shortlist along with baseball, softball, skateboarding, surfing, and karate to be considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics; [2] and in June 2016, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that ...