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Notable jumps[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

  • Nel 1912, Franz Reichelt, sarto, saltò dal primo piano della torre Eiffel testando la sua invenzione, il mantello paracadute. Morì schiantandosi al suolo. .[1]
  • Nel 1913, Štefan Banič saltò da un edificio di 12 m per dimostrare il suo nuovo paracadute all' Ufficio brevetti e alle forze militari. Succesivamente questo progetto diventò l'equipaggiamento standard per i piloti americani durante la prima Guerra Mondiale.[senza fonte]
  • Nel 1913, lo studente russo Vladimir Ossovski (Владимир Оссовский), del conservarvatorio di Sanpietroburgo, saltò da un ponte alto 53m (France), usando un paracadute tipo RK-1, inventato l'anno prima da Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944). Ossovski progettò di saltare anche dalla torre Eiffel ma le autorità parigine negarono il permesso.[2]
  • Nel 1965, Erich Felbermayr da Wels saltò dalla Kleine Zinne / Cima piccola di Lavaredo nelle Dolomites.[3]
  • Nel 1966, Michael Pelkey e Brian Schubert saltarono dalla parete "El Capitan" nello Yosemite Valley.[4]
  • On January 31, 1972, Rick Sylvester skied off Yosemite Valley's El Capitan cliff, making the first skiBASE jump (he termed it a "ski/parachute jump" since the acronym BASE had yet to be coined), falling approximately halfway down, about 1500', before deploying his Thunderbow chute. He did this twice more, approximately two weeks later and a year later.[senza fonte]
  • On 9 November 1975, the first person to parachute off the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, was Bill Eustace, a member of the tower's construction crew. He was fired.[5]
  • In 1975, Owen J. Quinn, a jobless man, parachuted from the south tower of the World Trade Center to publicize the plight of the unemployed.[6]
  • In 1976 Rick Sylvester skied off Canada's Mount Asgard for the ski chase sequence of the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, giving the wider world its first look at BASE jumping.[7]
  • On February 22, 1982, Wayne Allwood, an Australian skydiving accuracy champion, parachuted from a helicopter over the Sydney CBD and landed on the small top area of Sydney's Centrepoint Tower, approximately 300 metri (980 ft) above the ground. Upon landing, Allwood discarded and secured his parachute, then used a full-sized reserve parachute to BASE jump into Hyde Park below.[8] Video footage is also included in the Australian Base Associations' 2001 video compilation, Fistful of F-111.
  • In 1986, Welshman Eric Jones became the first person to BASE jump from the Eiger.
  • In 1987 Steve Dines (Australian) BASE 157 Made the first jump from the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
  • In 1990 Russell Powell (British) BASE 230 illegally jumped from the Whispering Gallery inside St Paul's Cathedral London. It was the lowest indoor BASE Jump in the world at 31.1 m.[9]
  • In 1990 Australian Mark Scott BASE# 165 / OZ BASE # 13 / SA BASE #1 made the first BASE Jump off London's One Canada Square tower, four days before the topping out ceremony.[9]
  • On August 26, 1992 Nic Feteris and Glenn Singleman (two Australians) made a BASE jump from an altitude of 20,600 feet (6286 meters) jump off Great Trango Towers Pakistan. It was the world's highest BASE jump off the earth at the time.[senza fonte]
  • In 1996, one jumper was injured and three landed safely in the only authorized BASE jump from Seattle's Space Needle.[10]
  • In 2000, Hannes Arch and Ueli Gegenschatz were the first to dare a BASE jump from the imposing 1800-metre high north face of the Eiger.[senza fonte]
  • In 2005, Karina Hollekim became the first woman to perform a ski-BASE.
  • In April 2008, Hervé Le Gallou and David McDonnell infiltrated Burj Khalifa, and jumped off a balcony on the 155th floor. They evaded arrest following their successful jump. However, on a second attempt two days later, Le Gallou was caught and subsequently detained in Dubai for three months.[11][12][13]
  • In 2009, three women—29-year-old Australian Livia Dickie, 28-year-old Venezuelan Ana Isabel Dao, and 32-year-old Norwegian Anniken Binz[14]—base jumped from Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world. Ana Isabel Dao was the first Venezuelan woman to jump off Angel Falls.[15]
  • On 8 January 2010, Nasr Al Niyadi and Omar Al Hegelan broke the then current world record for the highest building BASE jump after they leapt from a crane suspended platform attached to the Burj Khalifa's 160th floor at 672 metri (2 205 ft).[16]
  • On 5 May 2013, Russian Valery Rozov, 48, jumped off Changtse’s north face from a height of 7 220 metri (23 690 ft). Using a specially-developed wing suit, he flew to the Rongbuk glacier breaking the world record for highest base jump.[17]
  • In September 2013, 3 men jumped off the then-under-construction One World Trade Center in New York City. Footage of their jump was recorded using headcams and can be seen on YouTube.[18] In March 2014 the 3 jumpers and one accomplice on the ground were arrested after turning themselves in.[19][20]
  • On April 21, 2014, Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet (both from France) broke the Guinness World Record for Highest BASE Jump From A Building with a jump of 828 m (2,716 ft 6 in). They performed the jump off the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, UAE.[21][22]
  • On May 27, 2014, Whisper became the world's first Wingsuit BASE jumping dog.[23]
  • On August 21, 2014, Ramón Rojas of Chile broke the record for highest Earth-based wingsuit ski jump, 4 100 metri (13 500 ft) off of Cerro El Plomo.[24]
  1. ^ (French) Chute mortelle d'un inventeur de un parachute, in Le Temps, February 5, 1912, p. 4. URL consultato il July 12, 2013. Lingua sconosciuta: French (aiuto)
  2. ^ Russian edition of GEO magazine, issue 11, November 2006, GEO
  3. ^ Erich Felbermayr, eine Legende (in German)
  4. ^ Mike Pelkey - A BASE Pioneer, su johnnyutah.com, Paradigm Adventures, Inc.. URL consultato il 26 March 2012.
  5. ^ Devyani Saltzman, A towering work of fiction: Toronto's most famous structure narrates a novel that aims high, May 2010. URL consultato il 26 March 2012.
  6. ^ Geoff Craighead, Daredevils, Protestors and Suicides, in High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety, Butterworth-Heinemann, July 15, 2009, p. 116. URL consultato il February 4, 2014.
    «Quoting from: Gillespie, Angus K. "Twin Towers: the Life of New York City's World Trade Center." Rutgers University Press, 1999»
  7. ^ Chic Scott, Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering, Calgary: Rocky Mountain Books, 2000, ISBN 0-921102-59-3, p. 298.
  8. ^ Centrepoint Tower BASE jump 1982, su youtube.com, YouTube, 13 febbraio 2010. URL consultato il 4 febbraio 2014.
  9. ^ a b "Xtreme Sports Photography" (Xtreme Series) RotoVision (publisher) Simon Fraser (Author), ISBN 2-88046-755-1, Chapter on Photographing BASE Jumping by Doug Blane. October 2004
  10. ^ http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/21/parachutist/
  11. ^ Ed Caesar, The Men Who Fall To Earth, in http://www.edcaesar.co.uk/, The Sunday Times, 8 March 2009. URL consultato il 16 January 2012.
  12. ^ Tom Spender, Daredevils jumped off Burj Dubai undetected, 24 November 2008. URL consultato il 4 January 2010.
  13. ^ Jan Bednarz, World record BASE jump, in Current Edge, Current TV, 2008. URL consultato il 4 January 2010 (archiviato dall'url originale il 14 January 2010).Template:Citation broken Video documentary about the jump from the Burj Dubai tower.
  14. ^ Falling Angels | Anniken Binz | Blogs | Cooler - snow, surf, life & style Archiviato il 20131113135918 su coolermag.com URL di servizio di archiviazione sconosciuto.
  15. ^ El Nacional Todo en Domingo, su impresodigital.el-nacional.com. URL consultato il 18 maggio 2010.
  16. ^ Highest base jump-Nasr Al Niyadi and Omar Al Hegelan sets world record. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  17. ^ Daredevil makes record-breaking leap from Mount Everest, su telegraph.co.uk, The Telegraph. URL consultato il 29 May 2013.
  18. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz7sxt9xeJE#t=51
  19. ^ Haley Draznin, Four men arrested in One World Trade Center jump stunt, su edition.cnn.com, CNN website, 26 March 2014. URL consultato il 29 March 2014.
  20. ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2588211/Three-men-base-jumped-World-Trade-Center-hand-police-helmet-cam-video.html
  21. ^ HIGHEST BASE JUMP FROM A BUILDING, su guinnessworldrecords.com, Guinness World Records Limited. URL consultato il 26 Apr 2014.
  22. ^ Fred Fugen and Vincent Reffet took BASE jumping higher than ever before in Dubai., su redbull.com, Red Bull. URL consultato il 26 Apr 2014.
  23. ^ Video: When Dogs Fly – Dean Potter Takes His Dog Whisper BASE Jumping National Geographic.
  24. ^ (Spanish) Falleció Ramón Rojas, chileno récord mundial de salto base, El Mercurio, 20 September 2014. URL consultato il 22 September 2014. Lingua sconosciuta: Spanish (aiuto)
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