Bridal Veil Falls - Abseiling!

On sunday a few friends and I visited the Bridal Veil falls, near Raglan, New Zealand. This is a massive(!) waterfall. We went with the intention of abseiling the fall!

Heres a view of the fall from the bottom :
You can just see our two ropes to the left of the fall.

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Heck, you're crazy.

Those falls are 55metres high!

Next time I'll come along for a laugh

Heres a couple actions shots from one of my friends on the ground.

The top had a nice view of the 60meter fall to the ground below

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Here you can see the crowd watching us! There quickly gather a large crowd on the platform at the top, and twice as many people below stopped to watch!

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Here was a cute girl we met and took abseiling. She was incredibly brave considering this was the first time she had done anything like this!

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Last shot, honest!

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Looks like fun! Cute girl too, fill flash time though...

I dont like taking my 580ex off cliffs with me.. theres no way to secure it to my harness. The cameras connected, but if the flash came off..


Having said that, wazza's 580ex has gone over Hunua falls twice :P

That brings back memories.

that bar along the top may protect the ropes but man is it a pain in the ass when trying to send down 2 peole at once. The only photos I have from back then are in that starnge film format

TWICE!?!

I thought it was once.

forsaken wrote:
That brings back memories.

that bar along the top may protect the ropes but man is it a pain in the ass when trying to send down 2 peole at once. The only photos I have from back then are in that starnge film format

Nah! its fine! we went two at a time, I just went about 2 ft past the bar then waited for my mate to jump off. Once then it was fine. Especially with the girl, because having the two ropes so close together meant we were quite cosy the whole way down

*whistles idly by*

might have to join you on your next trip. its been so long sine I last threw myself over a cliff

MattL wrote:
*whistles idly by*

Don't worry mate. It's all good. I borrowed two of your girls. I said it was only one.

Anyway, those other shots look cool. Glad you had fun, and sorry I wasn't able to come along. All I can say is my head was hurting at 10am on Sunday morning!

Sure thing. We're always looking for people to split gas money with.

We were actually thinking of buying another couple harness / ropes / decenders etc, and taking people down the falls for $60 or so a pop. The two girls we took down said they would have paid us if we had a sign!

All I need now is a sign! lol


What sort of gear do you have forsaken?