When climbers opt to climb without a rope, they lose the luxury of learning from mistakes. Backyard inventor Matt Maddaloni has engineered a few creative solutions to make the fringe activity of free soloing "safe." Of course, safe is a relative term.

Eli adds:  This has got to be a humor piece as this guy obviously didn't invent deep water soloing and spending a day (or two) rigging a net in the forest instead of using a rope seems just plain silly- but I am "old school".