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Vertigo-Inducing Clip from David Lama

Would you be brave enough to do this? We're not sure we would...

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David Lama recently spent a day soloing the Ortler north face in the Italian Alps. As he noted on Facebook, it is “the biggest ice face in the eastern Alps,” and traverses “the ridges across Monte Zebru andKönigspitze.”

In this clip from his solo, Lama traverses a knife-edge ridge. If you get vertigo, maybe best not watch this short little clip.