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A Class Picture for the Ages

Nice picture, huh? But why are they all leaning to their right slightly? And what's with the ropes? It's because they're all high. It would help if you turned the picture the correct way up.

(Image credit: Hes-so Valais Wallis)

These 14 students at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hes-so) Valais-Wallis campus climbed 2,400 meters (7,874 feet) up the mountain called Pierre Avoi in the Swiss Alps. If you think that's an awful lot of trouble to get a picture, you haven't seen the half of it. Watch the process they went through to make this photograph happen.

(YouTube link)

These young folks take mountain climbing seriously, except when they want to have fun. You can see more pictures here.  -via reddit


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This one was good, but his first videos were better, because they were just more spontaneous. Still, the concept is cool, and it's great to see people from all over the world and such varied cultures just having goofy fun in a universal way.
I did smile several times by the way :)
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I love this guy! He must be one of the most interesting people to talk to ever... he's travelled EVERYWHERE!
Seriously, it's easier to list the places he's NOT been to now...
Still hasn't been to anywhere near me though... except London I suppose... but that's pretty far. Maybe next time!
This video makes me happy ^_^
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Cute. I was thinking this Where's Waldo-looking guy must be sponsored, and sure enough, he was. Kinda commercialized the cuteness and spontaneity out of it.
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Do something stupid- get noticed -do it again and again- and the world becomes your oyster.

Doesn't his legs get tired from all that dancing around the world?

One long extended vacation
paid for by the YouTube Corp.
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Marine, at the end of the video he thanks his sponsor. He did this once before out of his own pocket, but much more limited. Caught some Executives attention and wham, free travel!
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I don't think he actually stays in one of those locations long enough to really appreciate it. I can only imagine he is spending a few days in each location before moving on. That or some idiot is spending alot of money for him to be jobless and video taping himself dance.

Looks like he made it to South Korea before some idiot burned down the Namdaemun.
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I was in that video. I met Matt in Santa Monica, and had sushi! he is really cool!

by the way, he's NOT Australian. he is from the US, and lived in Australia for while before he started traveling.
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This seriously made my day the first time I saw it. Dancing kids are my one weakness.

PS - I'm pretty sure he's American, not Australian :)
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