The Next Level: 5 Ways to Make BASE Jumping More Extreme

Picture: Sender Films as well as National Geographic

Five BASE jumps which took it to the next level.

When leaping out of the plane with usually the skinny fabric metal cover station in between we as well as unconcern only isnt doing it for we anymore, parachuting from closer to the belligerent is the logical next step. Thus was born BASE jumping, one of the many hazardous as well as exciting sports upon earth.

As the sports 30th birthday has come as well as gone, some athletes have proposed to use BASE jumping to push the boundary of other extreme sports too. Below, weve picked up some of the many spectacular hybrid jumps ever caught upon video. Interestingly enough, almost all of these jumps were sponsored by Red Bull, who have put together the genuine corner in funny stunts.

1. Ski-BASE

While he was the successful racer as well as ski designer, Shane McConkey is many famous for his epic alloy of BASE jumping as well as skiing. McConkey made the sum of over 700 jumps, rising himself off of sheer towering faces in the Alps as well as Rockies.

Unfortunately, McConkey would in the future turn one of the sports casualties. He died in March 2009 when he failed to deploy his parachute during the burst in the Dolomite mountains.

2. Cave Jumping

I could fill the postseveral, probablyjust with videos of the funny jumps Felix Baumgartner has made. The Austrian skydiver has crossed the English channel using the carbon-fiber wing as well as BASE jumped off of the Cristo Redentor statue in Rio de Janeiro, as well as is currently precision to attempt to set the brand new record with the highest-altitude burst ever performed. Among his better outings was this burst in to Marmet Cave, the large sinkhole in Croatia.

3. Climbing With No Rope

Free-soloing, or ropeless climbing, is substantially the ! usually competition which gets marginally safer with the further of BASE jumping. Yosemite rock rock climbing legend Dean Potter proposed mixing the two sports the couple of years ago, carrying the lightweight chute instead of the wire to protect him opposite the fall.

After creation the ropeless climb of the Eigers north face final year, Potter set the brand new record for longest BASE burst ever with the scarcely three-minute wingsuit moody from the mountains top.

4. Skateboarding Into the Grand Canyon

With the decades value of X Games bullion medals underneath his leather belt as well as the seven-story mega-ramp in his backyard, skater Bob Burnquist regularly seems has room for the scary brand new challenge.

In 2006, he pulled off his biggest trick yet, the grub off of the specially-built rail right over the corner of the Grand Canyon. After scarcely bungling the burst the initial time, Burnquist as well as his team practiced the ramp as well as pulled the trick off perfectly.

5. Jumping Off the Moving Truck

Not the alloy per se, but still pretty cool. A BASE jumper climbs onto the relocating truck, afterwards leaps from it as it crosses Turkeys top bridge.

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