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“BASE jumping kills people very quick,” says Jeb Corliss, professional BASE jumper. “It’s one of the few sports in the world where you make mistakes, you get killed.”

Documentary filmmaker Jens Hoffmann met the Norwegian freeskier Karina Hollekim in 2002 when she first became interested in BASE-jumping. He immediately started filming with the [...]

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from Jaunted – the Pop Culture Travel Guide
Because kayaking isn’t extreme enough, because it’s on your list of resolutions or because you’d rather not actually get stuck in a ski gondola: The reasons to go BASE jumping this new year are plenty, and we’ve been hearing more and more about the insane sport recently.
In Whistler, [...]

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as reported by MountEverest.net
Base jumping is probably the most dangerous sport in the world, determined medical doctor and mountaineer Erik Monasterio at ExWeb last year. Specializing in Forensic Psychiatry the doc said that a comprehensive data base of base jumping fatalities reveals that 175 jumpers have died since the sport began (approximately 30 years ago).
“The [...]

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Straight from the AP Newswire……NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City councilman is introducing a bill to ban people from jumping off buildings and bridges.
The daredevil practice is called BASE jumping. BASE stands for building, antenna, span and earth, the main objects from which people jump.
Two years ago BASE jumper Jeb Corliss was stopped [...]

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