MetaFilter posts tagged with BaseJumping

Cowboy Desperado.

lazaruslong — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:57:47 -0800

First-person base jumping in Switzerland. Stick with it, as the horizontal movement across the rock face using the gliding bodysuit will blow your mind.

Xstream(ing) videos . . .

protorp — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:23:38 -0800

Enjoy a wide selection of free extreme sports shorts [flash] in the "Sweetspots" section of the Nike ACG website. Includes further ridiculousness shot in the same location as this previous post

buzzin the walls

allkindsoftime — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:17:21 -0800

At the beginning of windsuit base jumping, we were trying to get as far from the wall as possible...and now its getting boring so we play around. (money shot at 3:10)

Burj Dubai BASE Jump

homunculus — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:20:31 -0800

World Record BASE Jump: from 650 meters up the Burj Dubai. [Via]

Dean Potter walks the line (and then jumps off)

donovan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:13:24 -0800

"He had learned this extreme form of tightrope walking from a homeless man who wrote books on quantum physics." Iconoclastic rockclimber Dean Potter combines highlining, a form of tightrope walking, with BASE-jumping. This jaw-dropping video of Potter "baselining" 900' above a canyon in Utah provides a taste of what to expect from The Aerialist, a recent documentary profiling this ~~insane lunatic~~ innovative athlete. Potter's controversial free climb of Utah's Delicate Arch was previously discussed on MeFi. See as well this 1min video of his highline of Yosemite's Lost Arrow Spire and this summary of his copious climbing achievements.

Not for acrophobes.

desjardins — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:59:20 -0800

Human flight. Birdman suits enable the wearer to fly. You can jump from land or sky. If that's not exciting enough for you, add a rocket.

SPLAT!

vronsky — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:30:27 -0800

BASE! How low can you go? Four and a half minutes of base jumping goodness. Google vid.

See you on the ground

gwint — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:13:05 -0800

Men falling from the sky [14MB Quicktime] (via newstoday)

HoldenCaulfield — Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:24:21 -0800

How many died needlessly? If those who jumped from the WTC had parachutes, they probably would live to tell of it.