Climbing harness visible on the waterfall climb
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Claim: Bear can be seen wearing a climbing harness when climbing down a waterfall.
Bear, seemingly inexplicably, decides to climb down a cliff straight through the center of a waterfall. He presents this as a climb only supported by vines. However, in the video, you can see what appears to be a climbing harness around his waist and legs.[1]
[edit] Analysis
Support: Such a climb is dangerous even with equipment; trying to make people think that it was a wise choice when he himself, an expert rock climber, isn't willing to climb it, is greatly irresponsible.
Oppose: The image isn't very clear. He's clearly wearing something that he isn't wearing later, but whether it's a harness cannot be definitively claimed.
Oppose: It could have been the harness from his parachute.
- Support: That would still be harness to help him climb, and clever camera work to try and hide it.
- Oppose: Looking over the video, it is in fact the parachute harness. The exact same "device" strapped to his leg when going down the water fall is there prior to when dropping with the 50 foot rope out of the 60 foot drop in the tree. And in fact would not help him do any climbing what so ever after the parachute was disengaged. this is way to far fetched, and now people are just trying to hard to prove this show is fake. The point he is trying to make isn't a consideration of safety but some worse case scenario education. When you have nothing, and your lost in the jungle, your going to have to take some risks...
- Support: His CG is directly over the harness. That isn't shaped like a parachute harness, and even if it was, who would hike for miles with a parachute harness on? Lastly, this stunt would be idiotic without a harness.
