BASE Jumping
5 of the Most Exhilarating Jumps Captured on Film
A Smörgåsbord of vertigo inducing jumps from around the world.
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1. Valery Rozov: Mount Everest
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In one of the most exhilarating pieces of base jumping footage, Russian extreme sports star, Valery Rozov donning a wingsuit, tasked himself with the incredible feat of flying off the north face of Mount Everest.
Rozov achieved the highest BASE jump ever at a staggering - 7,220 meters above sea level and succeeded in completing his mission almost 60 years to the day after mountaineer Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the mountain's summit.
2. Valery Rozov: Shivling Peak, Himalayas
Climber, base jumper and all round daredevil Valery Rozov also takes second on our list with his daunting jump from Shivling, a 6,543m mountain in the Indian part of the Himalayas.
Rozov has made over 9000 jumps in his career to date, cementing his reputation as the sky-surfing champion of his field.
3. Cedric Dumont: Vilnius TV Tower
Belgian extreme sports star, Cedric Dumont has been making terrifying leaps of faith for the last twenty years. Dumont began his obsession with skydiving in 1993.
Two years later he became a figure of note for his BASE jumping and by 1999 he was donning a wingsuit, a passion that still grips him tightly today, "it is for me the most natural way a human can fly and the new technologies allow us to reach a glide ratio of 4/1, which was not possible a few years ago, this is the beginning of a new era".
The now classic piece of footage below shows us Dumont's awesome leap from the Vilnius TV Tower, the tallest building in Lithuania. The antenna is 326 meters high and the jump itself was made from a height of approximately 170 meters.
4. Felix Baumgartner: Sultantate of Oman
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Felix Baumgartner en Oman
Felix Baumgartner en Oman
Our next piece of footage features Felix Baumgartner, the man who became a household name last year for the triple-record breaking space diving project that he executed from 39 kilometres into the Earth's stratosphere over New Mexico.
Baumgartner has however been wowing the world since long before the Red Bull Stratos captivated the globe, this time in the Sultanate of Oman, where he performed a breathtaking jump into the belly of the largest cave in the Middle East (second-largest in the world). As no stranger to fear, this clip documents the death-defying Austrian's journey into the hair-raising blackness of the cave.
5. Marco Waltenspiel : Schafberg BASE Jump
Red Bull Skydive Team member, Marco Waltenspiel and his crew deliver us an utterly mesmerising display of human flight. Our aerial adventurer suits up and jumps from a helicopter soaring high above the Schafberg mountain in St. Wolfgang, Austria.
Waltenspiel maneuvers his body dangerously close to the stream of tree tops and cliff edges, a feat of both physical and mathematic strain, that inspires shock and awe in his spectators whether you are standing on a mountain or simply pressing play on your laptop.
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