An impressive balancing act took place on the morning of Thursday June 8 on the hill of Monserrate. Over there, athlete Jaan Roose traversed this Bogotá icon to Guadalupe Hill on a rope.
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The number amazed the hundreds of people who saw the slackline spectacle, performed by a young man who has been involved in the sport since he was 18 years old.
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According to information provided by RedBull, the Estonian covered a distance of 1,525 meters between the hills, at a height of 3,100 meters above sea level.
This, in turn, broke his personal record. In 2022, the RedBull-sponsored youngster took on a 500m slackline between two mountains in Kazakhstan.
In addition, it was also carried by the story of Canadian extreme athlete Harry Warner who ran just over 890 meters on a tightrope, but of whom there is only a record of a photo at the entrance to Monserrate and the strange story. .
“I’m here for a reason: I heard the story that 128 years ago the Canadian tightrope walker crossed these two peaks, but very little is known about the history and I don’t know where he went exactly because the distance is different from those times and I wanted to bring this mysterious story to life”, explained at the end of the 2 hour and 12 minute tour.
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I wanted to bring this mysterious story to life
Thanks to technology and drones, the thin connection between the two hills was established, which was replaced by a stronger rope with a distance of 1525 meters.
For this distance of 1.5 kilometers, very solid connections and anchor points were needed: In Monserrate the line was tied to the church tower at its highest point and on the hill of Guadalupe it was tied right next to the statue of the Virgin.
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