In keeping with the theme of peculiar patents we turn our attention to ‘firsts’ of another kind.
We remember the first plane flight, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon.
Even the longest fart.
Apologies, the most extended flatulent.
Records are made to be broken or so we are told. Indeed many agree with the sentiment.
When asked why he, George Mallory, decided to climb Everest, he replied….
Because it’s there.
George Mallory
It puts me in mind of an old episode of Jeremy Clarksons’ Motorworld.
In an episode from Iceland a man made a statement regarding why they were building cars to deliberately try to climb nearly vertical hills.
The land exists as a sort of challenge, it’s put there to challenge us, to test us. We must accept.
Random Icelandic Bad-ass
So who exactly was the first person to throw themselves headfirst off a bridge, or eat dinner & the dishes?
With this I present to you an 8 part series –
Dem Big Feats
Charles Blondin, whose real name is Jean Francois Gravelet was the first person to walk across Niagara River on a tightrope.
The New York times described the Frenchman’s achievement as “The greatest feat of the Nineteenth Century”.
Just in case you think he did it once, no, he actually made eight crossings in total including one where he carried his manager, one Harry Colcord, on his back.
The initial attempt took Blondin all of 20 minutes as he walked across his 7,5cm diameter or 3 inches for you Americanos manilla rope.
The rope stretched 335m (1,100ft) across the Niagara Gorge a mile downstream of the Falls.
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