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Imagine hanging onto a rope that is close to 1,000 feet above the ground. Now imagine walking across this rope with no support? Sounds terrifying, but for Spencer Seabrooke, it only takes a single “arghh”. With the snowy mountains and beautiful forests of British Columbia in the background, Seabrooke chose to walk along a sagging rope that stretched 64 meters across a gorge.

In an attempt to break the world record of longest solo slack lining walk, Spencer didn’t have the best of starts. With a drop of nearly 290 meters below him, he initially falls and clings to the rope. But he gets up again and with slow and carefully balanced steps, manages to finish the fiendish challenge. “There’s no line at all, so if I hadn't caught the line in those moments, I would've been mashed potatoes after a seven-second free fall,” he told the Huffington Post after breaking the record by seven meters.

The sport is similar to tightrope walking, except the rope is kept slightly loose for the walkers. It allows them to balance their bodies according to different conditions. Watch daredevil Seabrooke pulling off the longest slack lining walk without using a safety support line in these beautifully drone-shot videos by videographer Zachary Moxley.