There’s something oddly mesmerizing about this UIAA Mountain Equipments Testing video. Everything’s played in real time speed, but watching a carabiner leisurely yawn open and then explode like a frog stuffed with M-80s seems like it’s happening at half speed. Maybe it’s because you figure that if a piece of equipment ever broke it wouldn’t go slowly like Sly Stallone’s lead harness buckle in Cliffhanger, but so quickly you’d never know what went wrong. Either way, I’m sure it’ll never happen.

via The Snaz