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carlkritzinger · Post by **carlkritzinger** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:18 pm

Ah, Celestial Journey. Classic route. Very cool pic. It just begs the question of how it was taken. I mean, how does one get a photo of yourself from that angle and distance? Did he perhaps set the timer and then hurl the camera into space? impressive. :D

Andy Davies · Post by **Andy Davies** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:34 pm

They shouldn't hand engineering degrees out so easily at Stellenbosch

kvarga · Post by **kvarga** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:30 pm

Its simply a matter of occupying two spaces in the universe at the same time. easily done when you really think about it.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:50 pm

Sorry to start the conservation angle - but isnt that an excess use of orange chalk?

DBez · Post by **DBez** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:10 pm

Maybe they used a paraglider that jumped out of a Cessna and then used a Canon EOS20D camera that was attached to a rope that runs through the belay of another person at the bottom of the crag to keep him in towards the face . Some real mean long rope...or did they already invented a boltgun ? It could also be taken by Google...

kvarga · Post by **kvarga** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:14 pm

the original point of the posting, which i think some of you are missing, is that the photo is of micky climbing, taken by micky himself.

DBez · Post by **DBez** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:53 pm

Uuhhmmm...small balloon with camera attached and remote that sets of the camera ?

bergie · Post by **bergie** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:24 pm

maybe they're twins and mom couldn't choose who gets grandads name...so named them the same?

Grigri · Post by **Grigri** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:54 pm

No no its not taken by Micky himself but by the Micky Wiswedel collection. Whilst it is perfectly theoretically possible to occupy two points in space simultaneously, the credit seems to indicate that there are several Mickys in existence simultaneously, which really would be impressive!

My theory is that the orange splodge was sprayed onto the rock by the Micky climbing when he looked up and realised what he'd gotten himself into. I wonder if he's also belaying himself? Now that would be a handy trick to learn!

Post by **Justin** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:08 pm

Just to let you all know I added the word 'collection' to the credit today

And a big thanks to everyone who's sent in pictures to Climb ZA

Rastaman · Post by **Rastaman** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:15 am

Cricky, now there's a collection of Micky's

DBez · Post by **DBez** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:59 am

How many Micky's are we talking off and how do we know which Micky did the shot ?

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