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Two California brothers set longest highline walk record in Yosemite National Park

Highlining is high-altitude slack-lining

Kathy Matheson/AP

FILE - This April 2013 file photo shows a shuttle bus picking up passengers at Sentinel Bridge in front of Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park, Calif. An estimated 90 shuttle bus drivers and Yosemite National Park transportation workers who were laid off after the park closed to visitors in March are now facing eviction. The group of Yosemite Hospitality workers were told this week layoffs require them to leave Yosemite by May 21, the Fresno Bee reported Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Matheson, File)

By: Anthony Wright, 23ABC

Posted at 9:09 AM, Jun 21, 2021

and last updated 2021-06-21 12:09:02-04

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KERO) — Two brothers from San Francisco say they've set a record for the longest highline ever walked in Yosemite National Park.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this month they and a group of friends spent nearly a week stretching a 2,800-foot long line from Taft Point west across a series of canyons that have a drop of 1,600 feet.

Highlining is high-altitude slack-lining in which a strip of strong nylon webbing -- usually an inch wide and a few millimeters thick -- is strung between two anchor points and serves as a kind of balance beam.

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Two California brothers set longest highline walk record in Yosemite National Park

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