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Matt Soanes leaps 'The Leap' at Pembroke. Brave or stupid, I'm still undecided. He made it incident free by the way :)
© John Bunney, Jul 2018
Route: The leap
Climbers: Matt Soanes.
Camera used: Sony A7Riii
Date taken: 21st July 2018
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Wow! Did you get a video of it? Never heard of anyone doing this before although I'm sure someone'll be along shortly to prove me wrong.
Mark Collins - 23/Jul/18
I havn;'t got a video, but a friend has!
He did a static jump and landed slightly lower on a small rock pedestal.
John Bunney - 23/Jul/18
The Leap is seemingly so named after a (mad?) rider on horseback who once apparently did the same. Sadly, the horse's reaction to committing to the jump remains unrecorded. It has also been done a number of times before without any equine aid although one may, quite reasonably, muse as to 'why?' - as failure would oh-so-obviously result in a trip to the morgue rather than A&E. Good pic though of a very brave and equally foolish individual.
Dave Williams - 23/Jul/18
One slight slip !!!!!!!!!! madness. Yes it s a good shot but this is real life not a Jason Bourne movie
roger grounsell - 23/Jul/18
Lucky not to win a Darwin Award.
Dave Foster - 24/Jul/18
Utterly stupid
madmo2991 - 24/Jul/18
I had very lucky escape in May 1994. I jumped across unroped and fell back from grassy landing. After bouncing off rock I landed in water and survived with broken wrist and knee cap. The epic was described in "On the Edge, Number 43, AUG / SEPT 1994 in a column titled "Slippery Pole". I have never thanked properly all climbers who put themselves in danger to rescue me as well as coastguard helicopter crew and staff in Haverfordwest hospital.
andrzej kierzek - 18/Dec/18
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