Who invented base jumping

JB: It was just a brand new activity, and with anything that was this new, people didn't understand that it could be done. So we had to introduce them to the fact that, number one, it could be done. And then when somebody comes and asks you for a permit, they don't think that you're asking for something that is flat out impossible — and it worked out quite well in the long run.

In the film you see the chief ranger there, and we had a very good rapport with him. JB: Everybody loved Carl. Carl was a very, very likable person and everybody took away a special experience of him that enhanced their lives.

You had cameras attached to your helmets in those early years. JB: I've never used a GoPro. We used gun cameras — and that's the closest we have ever gotten to guns, so it's kind of weird we would be using things that were surplus military from World War II. The weight that we would carry on our heads, for a dual-mounted camera — still and movie — was twelve-and-a-half pounds. Carl's was upwards of fifteen. It was a lot of weight.

You had to really know what you were doing and be very careful opening the chute and always be constantly aware not only of safety factors but also where the sun was, where the angles were, who you were looking at, were they framed properly. So there was a lot to consider in addition to the regular jumping needs. TZ: Almost immediately after Carl's death in in a jump gone wrong, you went right back up there.

You jumped yourself almost immediately. Here, Boenish negotiates with park rangers at California's Yosemite National Park after a 3,foot plunge off El Capitan's vertical rock face. Jean Boenish said she and her late husband were not "adrenaline junkies" or "daredevils. In , Boenish led a group of skydivers who jumped off a nearly 3,foot-high outcropping near the summit of the famed El Capitan , the near-vertical rock cliff at California's Yosemite National Park.

He wanted to capture the historic jump on film in a spectacular way: "I wanted to figure out a way if possible to film a person running off a cliff, but from a vantage point looking back toward the cliff," Boenish explained in CNN Films' documentary, "Sunshine Superman. To do that, he built a foot, angled aluminum ladder that he and some rock climbers attached to El Capitan's rock face.

Boenish perched himself on a seat on the end of the ladder -- suspended over the ledge. Why the risk?

After seeing what Boenish and his team accomplished, other parachutists jumped off El Capitan in the months afterward, leading to arrests. The park began requiring special sanctioning and permits. But the system broke down and authorities stopped granting permits in Boenish taught his wife, Jean Boenish, to jump.

And as they both learned, there were many other tall things around the world to leap from. Fear of falling. Imagine standing atop a skyscraper, teetering on the balls of your feet on the roof's edge and looking down to the street below. Extreme sports psychologists say the fear of falling is essential to human survival, but oddly some of us are actually drawn to it.

Some of us actually want to jump. We release dopamine which provides us with a pleasurable feeling," Rhonda Cohen , a professor at Britain's Middlesex University and an expert in the psychology of extreme sports, told CNN last May. In fact, every second we fall, our speed increases.

The rate of acceleration would be 32 feet per second per second in a vacuum. In air, it's not quite that fast, but it's still scary. Each floor of the skyscraper whizzes by more quickly than the next.

A jumper who falls for five seconds is traveling about mph. The body also experiences accelerating heart beat and rising blood pressure. Finally, when the parachute opens and the jumper lands safely, something strange happens, Cohen said. It sound crazy, but the stress, fear and euphoria make us want to do it again. BASE competitions have been held since the early s, with accurate landings or free fall aerobatics used as the judging criteria.

Recent years have seen a formal competition held at the metres 1, ft high Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, judged on landing accuracy.

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