Posts Tagged ‘base jumping’

Awesome Helmet Cam Footage of Base Jumping with Cliff Skimming and Tree Trimming

Feel like you’re part of the action with the first person view provided by the helmet camera worn by the B.A.S.E. jumper in this insane video.

The base jumper shows as how it’s like jumping off a mountain in a wingsuit and getting extremely close to rocks and trees, so close it seems he can touch them.  Amazing song to go along with this great helmet cam footage makes this base jumping video a must see.

Extreme BASE Jump off the Eiger by National Geographic

Great video of extreme BASE jumping off the legendary Eiger in the Swiss Alps with some helmet camera footage. The Eiger is one of the most impressive peaks in the Alps and over 3000m. Its ascent is very difficult, bein accomplished for the first time in 1858 by Charles Barrington.

These extreme BASE jumpers have some originality as they set up a tightrope across two peaks. They then proceed to tightrope walk to the center and BASE jump off the tighrope! There is some great wing wingsuit footage as the BASE jumpers drop down the Eiger.

This is a beautiful video with professional camera work as it’s done for National Geographic.

BASE Jumping wearing wingsuits in Baffin Island in Northern Canada

Here’s an amazing video shot with a helmet cam of two BASE jumpers in wingsuits as they jump off a mountain on the very remote, yet huge, Baffin Island in Norther Canada. Baffin Island has become a hotspot for BASE jumping due to it’s beautiful scenario and large number of peaks between 800 and 1200m, perfect for a BASE jump. Its extreme remote location allows BASE jumpers to have no problems with the law and provides for some amazing views.

The video of the BASE jump starts as the two jumpers prepare for the jump up top. The two jump in their wingsuits with the top one wearing a helmet camera and filming the beautiful decent of the other wingsuit jumper. Everything is all white!

Retro Base Jumping off El Capitan in 1980s

In this retro base jumping video, a group of base jumpers jump off one of the most famous rock formations, the 3000 foot, 910m high El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. El Capitan is also known as one of best rock climbing challenges. It is located in Nevada.

The video shows the group of base jumpers jumping off the rock formation. They take turns running down the top of the cliff as fast as the can and just diving head first off the ledge. It definitively takes balls of steal to be a BASE jumper back in the 80s. The BASE jumpers at first appear to be just falling into the forest, without any parachutes opening. In the second half of the extreme base jumping video, we see another view where the base jumpers are gliding to safety, with their parachutes open.

BASE jumping used to be legal in Yosemite National Park in the 1980s, simply requiring a permit. This however has ended and BASE jumping off the vertical rock formation that is “El Capitan” is now illegal. There still remains many people base jumping  in Yosemite National Park in Nevada.

Base Jumping of the Burj Dubai. World Record!

A video of BASE jumping off the world’s tallest building, the Burj Dubai, also known as the Burj Khalifa. It stands at 828m high, that’s 2717 feet. The previous holder of the record was the CN at 553.3m and the Taipai 101 at 509.2m.

This was the first attempt ever on the world’s new talles skyscraper, on May 2008. They are so early, that the building is still under constructions, with the windows on the Burj Khalifa’s highest floors are still being installed. The two base jumpers, Robin Schmidt, and Jan Bednarz, climb up stairs the whole way up, over 160 floors. They then jump out from the windows of the Burj Dubai after enjoying the amazing view.

The two base jumpers are using helmet cams, allowing us to see this amazing, world record breaking, historic moment in BASE jumping.

There is a tense moment in this base jumping video as one of the base jumpers wearing a helmet cam lands in the construction area. He is spotted by a security guard and is being chased. Watch the video to find out if he escapes!