02/11/2021
There are five such rope-jumping teams just in Novosibirsk, and in Moscow this number touches 20. Russia-wide, there are more than 50 teams that organize rope jumps, Sergey Firsov, leader of the first rope jumping team in the country, told RBTH.
It was around 17 years ago when Russian alpinists learned about rope jumping. The activity was invented by American climber Dan Osman in the 1990s to help alpinists overcome their fear of falling from a mountain. The inventor himself died in 1998 performing a “controlled free-fall” jump, but this did not stop the first Russian rope jumpers.