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Liquid Mountaineering - Running on Water

As many of you will have seen, there has been a video sweeping the Internet worldwide under the name Liquid Mountaineering, amassing more than 6 million YouTube views to date and featuring heavily in the media, including The Sun, The Daily Star, the Guardian, The Metro and the Sunday Times. As well as this UK media coverage, the video has featured on TV channels all around the world including ESPN (USA), Fox News (USA) and The Morning Show (Australia) to name just a few. The documentary-type fi

1st July 2010

Innovation in Textiles
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Sports/​Outdoor, Clothing/​Footwear

Walking on waterAs many of you will have seen, there has been a video sweeping the Internet worldwide under the name Liquid Mountaineering, amassing more than 6 million YouTube views to date and featuring heavily in the media, including The Sun, The Daily Star, the Guardian, The Metro and the Sunday Times.

As well as this UK media coverage, the video has featured on TV channels all around the world including ESPN (USA), Fox News (USA) and The Morning Show (Australia) to name just a few.

The documentary-type film features three guys running on water thanks to the water repellent qualities of their Hi-Tec shoes. The shoes actually feature P2i’s liquid repellent nano-coating, ion-mask.

Many have questioned whether the video is real or not... take a look and see what you think!

Here’s what the maker said about the film:

“Liquid Mountaineering is a new sport which is attempting to achieve what man has tried to do for centuries: walk on water. Or to be more precise: running on water. We are developing the sport from scratch. By accident we found out that with the right water repellent equipment you can run across bodies of water, just like a stone skimming the surface.

Liquid mountaineering is performed by professionals under professional supervision. Accordingly I must insist that attempting to do so is dangerous.

We like to thank the people at Hi-Tec for their support.”

 

 

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