Canadian daredevil walks 210 feet between cliffs to break slackline world record

WATCH (above): Spencer Seabrooke smashes free soloing slackline world record.

It’s not a feat for the faint of heart.

Rope walker Spencer Seabrooke walked across 210 feet of slackline, which was suspended between two cliffs in Squamish, B.C., to beat the world record on Aug.2.

And if crossing a slackline 950 feet in the air wasn’t daring enough, the 26-year-old Seabrooke did it without any safety equipment or a ‘leash’ in order to smash the free soloing record of 180 feet, set by Andy Lewis in 2011. Slacklining, which is similar to tightrope walking, uses a form of nylon webbing that is one to two inches wide and secured between two anchor points like rocks or trees.

“Just thinking about it makes your heart pound and when you’re out there, fear is definitely there,” Seabrooke tells Global News.

“It’s just keeping control of your fear and reminding yourself what you can do and what’s possible.”

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "Just thinking about it makes your heart pound and when you're out there, fear is definitely there," Seabrooke tells <em>Global News</em>.</p><p>"It's just keeping control of your fear and reminding yourself what you can do and what's possible."

Videographer Zachary Moxley captured the stunt, which shows Seabrooke losing his footing more than once and catching the line with his arms to escape falling to his death.

Crazy? Not according to the Peterborough, ON native who says, “it happens all the time” and he never misses catching the line, even when he’s wearing a harness.

Slacklining for only three years, Seabrooke says it’s all about progression.

“You work up to it… first you learn to do it on the ground. Then you take it high in the air with safety gear, and then I take it higher and remove the gear.”

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "You work up to it… first you learn to do it on the ground. Then you take it high in the air with safety gear, and then I take it higher and remove the gear."

For this maneuver, which was done in the north gulley between peaks two and three on the Stawamus Chief Mountain in Squamish, Seabrooke wore a harness but was not attached to the line. He says he wore the gear in case he fell in the middle of the walk, which would then require him to shimmy more than 100 feet in either direction to get to safety.

Regardless of the risk, Seabrooke believes there are more dangerous things in life.

“If you ask me, it’s more dangerous driving the Sea-to-Sky Highway up to where I do this, then it is doing what I’m doing,” he laughs.

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "If you ask me, it's more dangerous driving the Sea-to-Sky Highway up to where I do this, then it is doing what I'm doing," he laughs.

But what does Seabrooke’s family think of his slacklining endeavours?