Climber Calmly Rappels Down Mountain Just Feet From ‘Raging’ Mudfall

A mountain climber escaped a harrowing torrential muddy waterfall by cooly rappelling down the cliffside mere feet from the raging waterfall of detritus, video shared with Storyful (via The New York Post) shows. The footage was captured last Friday by a 16-year-old onlooker at Utah’s Morning Glory Arch within Grandstaff Canyon, outside Moab.

Adventurer Tyler Erickson was rappelling down a sandstone cliff face adjacent to a torrential waterfall of mud which “spontaneously developed” following...