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Jingy

Social climber

Flatland, Ca

Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 31, 2008 - 03:36pm PT

Chris, I'm sure you've seen this (done it).. But a buddy of mine sent me this link and the base jump is shown to be intensified. It has changed over the last few years, hasn't it?!!!

Y'all, check this out!!!

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

Chris2

Trad climber

Dec 31, 2008 - 03:44pm PT

Wow.

jewedlaw

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Dec 31, 2008 - 04:01pm PT

Chris showed us this at the Reel Rock Tour (at least the one in SF, anyway).

What happens to the skis in the first part? Retrieved ever?

Jingy

Social climber

Flatland, Ca

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 31, 2008 - 10:30pm PT

lewedlaw - I was thinking that very same thing... He's flyin' off into the sunset, skis are at the base of the mountain....??? HUH?

I always thought skydiving and based jumping were an expensive activity.. Think of loosing a pair of ski's every time you jumped off the top of the side of a mountain

Thorgon

Big Wall climber

Sedro Woolley, WA

Dec 31, 2008 - 11:28pm PT

That is whack Mac!! They had some good footage in Banff Film Festival, but these guys have radically stepped things up??

Thor

Chris McNamara

SuperTopo staff member

Jan 2, 2009 - 12:20am PT

yeah, that was some awesome stuff. Loic and Espen are the two of the best guys in the world at flying close to stuff

here is some other cool footage here

http://www.basejumpingmovies.com/

Klimmer

Mountain climber

San Diego

Jan 2, 2009 - 01:45am PT

Absolutely incredible stuff. I am constantly blown away by these "flying squirrels" kinda guys, Chris M. included.

The only place I can do this is in my dreams. I have had these dreams more and more recently, perhaps it has now come about as a result of viewing these incredible films. It is the only place I can safely do it --- asleep in another world.

You guys are like Superman truly. The future is right now, and its incredible.

What is possible today is simply astonishing and amazing. When you guys put it all together in a multisport kind of way, that to me is the ulimate. Climb. Fly. Ski. Awesome.

I am totally lost to the real world when I watch these films. It is an incredible surreal escape.