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How the hell did they get that mattress up there on the first one? Assuming its not a photoshop.
Interesting though the hanging camps. Remember seeing it in a movie called K2 many years ago and being fascinated by it

Gee you wouldn't want to be a restless sleeper?

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Worse case scenario, busting to do number 2 in the dark. Lol

Just how strong are those climbing ropes? Faith!

The mattress one is shopped for sure, pic was taken with person on mattress on a ground situation.
No way would you put stresses like that on those anchors, plus person is not secured.

As far as the others go, yeah all legit
Ropes will take around 2 tonnes dead weight, and you can be sure ALL those peeps are harnessed up and secured to anchor on the wall separate to the sleeping platforms.

If you could look closely enough you'd see that nothing is going anywhere easily. A ledge may be supported by a single bolt but it will be attached in other ways too. These well-engineered sleeping arrangements are actually very comfy looking. I've seen that first one before; I think it was in an advertisement.

Then a gale forced wind started to blow...

. . . or the whole wall falls away and you are left hanging there . . . it's happened !!

Not quite as extreme, but have spent several nights camping out here. First time I wore my harness and attached to the rock as I was concerned about slipping away.

How do people handle their "private things" at those locations? The trowel won't work very well.

GPSGuided wrote:How do people handle their "private things" at those locations? The trowel won't work very well.

Gives a new meaning of 'going to the long drop'.

I vote we camp on top btw

radson wrote:Not quite as extreme, but have spent several nights camping out here. First time I wore my harness and attached to the rock as I was concerned about slipping away.

Reminds me of a hypothesized federation peak summit camp that I talked about with a friend recently.

Reminds me of a hypothesized federation peak summit camp that I talked about with a friend recently.

Latest vertical life magazine has a good feature on federation ,Wouldnt mind a camp on the top as well

GPSGuided wrote:How do people handle their "private things" at those locations? The trowel won't work very well.

It depends. Sometimes just under a rock will do. Or you can go in a bag and toss it. In popular place like Yosemite that is no longer acceptable and is even illegal so you have to carry it back down to the ground for proper disposal in some sort of container. Although not required by law some people are even hauling their urine to the tops of the cliffs. In addition to smelly rock ledges due to urine there have also been many instances of inadvertent "showers" received from a party above. It's amazing how well a stream can hold together when there isn't any wind. Other times it atomizes and covers an area like a cloud of fog. I peed on a group one time that was kind enough to let us pass them; I just couldn't hold it any longer.

. I peed on a group one time that was kind enough to let us pass them; I just couldn't hold it any longer.[/quote]

Lol. Remind me not to go rock climbing with you.

Camping on the side of a cliff like that should be safe enough if all the mountings are done correctly but in reality, I wonder what the safety record is really like?

Doing a number 2 would be a real challenge! And I would not like the idea of carrying it out... And how could you have privacy?

I am guessing there are no climbs in Australia large enough to justify such arrangements?

I think if you're aiding Ozymandius (Mt Buffalo, Vic) you might be able to justify bringing a ledge.

Some of those climbs look mighty scary - El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite spring to mind

http://vimeo.com/36677163 - some great footage in this video

Privacy is hard to come by but you get used to it. Usually the other person just turns the other way. Once when doing a wall with a female each of us took a turn down jumaring 8 or 10 meters and just hanging there so as to give the other a little space to do the stinky thing.

Many of the routes in Yosemite are not scary, just long. The weather is usually good, the rock solid, and access easy. The biggest problem tends to be crowding.

Great video tastrax. No way I would even think about that. They definitely have some you know what.

That ledge in tastrax' video is called the thank god ledge. Here is a video of the entire stretch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-qKb_cpe8

icefest wrote:That ledge in tastrax' video is called the thank god ledge. Here is a video of the entire stretch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-qKb_cpe8

I thought for a minute he was going to walk the whole thing. Each time I did it I was in crawling mode pretty early on. Those gopro cameras really distort things a lot but it's hard not to be impressed with the exposure there. It's definitely a cool place to be.

I watched a video of the hike up to the top of the half dome a while back and that looked scary enough from memory