Svaha Spirit Series~First Woman Walks the Lost Arrow Spire Highline
This video of Libby Sauter walking the Lost Arrow Spire Highline, nearly 3000 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor made my palms sweat. It also stirred within me the desire to cheer on a fellow human being. I don’t know Libby from Adam but I soooo wanted her to succeed. I could not even imagine myself climbing up that mountain let alone walking across that thin line of rope or steel or whatever the highline is made of. You could have steel two by sixes across there and I still wouldn’t be able to walk it at that height. So man or woman, I applaud you. The mother in me is also very glad you used all the proper safety lines. Although if that was a child of mine I would not have been able to view it.
It is such a perfect “If at first you don’t succeed…” video don’t you think? I loved hearing the encouragement and coaching from her friend too. “It’s yours Libby” “You Got It!”
Good for you Libby! Now stop freaking your mother out!
7 Comments
Chris
YIKES !! She must have incredible physical and mental strength to accomplish that ! I wonder how many tries it took. I’m with you Bonnie, wouldn’t find me up there either ! A little afraid of heights…. 🙂
Way to go Libby !
Tracy Westerholm
Yikes is right ! I can’t imagine! You could tell she was going to make it on the last try, she was calm and more controlled. Yeah Libby!
Friend
12 tries in 3 days.
She’s also a rescue climber with YOSAR (google that)
and a nurse volunteer with:
http://www.Babyheart.org/
The title could be “Persistence”!
Someone doing in life what they like to do!
Bonnie Johnson
Wow. What an inspiration! Thank you for sharing that.
Friend
Interview here:
http://fearless.msn.com/?section=diaries&contentid=1&subid=4#/profiles/5/>1=25045
Bonnie Johnson
Cool!
Friend
Last year:
http://made-by-her.livejournal.com/165271.html