Slackline Record Breaker Almost Falls Hundreds of Feet

Slacklining is tough enough between a couple trees in your local park. String a long, loose line between two cliffs in Squamish with a nearly 1000-foot drop in the middle and you’re looking at an entirely different beast. 

Spencer Seabrooke just broke the free solo slackline record (toeing the line without ropes or safety measures). Just a few steps into his 210-foot record-breaking walk, he lost balance. Had his reflexes kicked in a millisecond later, he would have tumbled hundreds of feet into the abyss. Instead, he caught himself, clambered back onto the line and grunted his way across the chasm to resounding woops from his mates and a new record with his name on it. 

Definitely watch with headphones—the primal grunts post-fall make this insane video even crazier.