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Slacklining Between Two Volvo Ocean Racers – Is This The Latest Sea–Going Craze?

3rd February 2015
Slacklining Between Two Volvo Ocean Racers – Is This The Latest Sea–Going Craze?

#slackline – In his most creative stunt yet, Mich Kemeter does a slackline above the sea – using two Volvo Ocean Race yachts! 

When you're 27 meters up in the air, the wind whistling past your ears and gravity pulling heavy at your limbs, there's only one thing to do: walk the line. That's what Austrian professional slackline walker, Kemeter, did on December 28 at the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Abu Dhabi.  Except he didn't quite make it....

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