#Basejumping

earthlingappassionato
2025-07-18

Felix Baumgartner in a wingsuit flying over a mountain.





Felix Baumgartner in a wingsuit flying over a mountain.
earthlingappassionato
2025-07-18

Felix Baumgartner, extreme sports pioneer, dies in paragliding accident in Italy

The Austrian made headlines around the world in October 2012 when he jumped from a balloon 38 kilometres above Earth, becoming the first skydiver to break the sound barrier, typically measured at more than 1,110 kilometres per hour.

He made the historic jump over Roswell, New Mexico, reaching a peak speed of over 1,343kph.

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-18/pio





Felix Baumgartner jumped from a balloon 38km above Earth in 2012.  Reuters: Red Bull Stratos

“I’m standing there on top of the world outside of a capsule in space and in the stratosphere,” he remembered. “I looked around the sky above me was completely black. I was really trying to inhale that moment. … I had tears in my eyes when I was coming back a couple of times because you’re sitting there and you thought about that moment so many times, you know, how it would feel and how it would look like. And this is way bigger than I had anticipated.”
The Japan Timesthejapantimes
2025-07-18

Austrian extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident in central Italy. japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/0

UltimateResortsUltimateResorts
2025-07-07

Our shoutout for top social post of the day on Skydiving and infinity pool resort in Dubai goes to @predragvuckovic on Instagram. @predragvuckovic talks about: Amazing drone wakeskating and BASE jumping by @briankgrubb at Dubai's infinity pool atop @addressbeachresort, reaching 294 meters above sea level.

ND POSTNDPOST
2025-06-23

Tragic news: British wingsuit champion Liam Byrne, 24, has died in a base jumping accident in the Swiss Alps.
Read more: ndpost.org/sports/british-wing

2025-01-24

Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief
'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'
#rescue #accident #BASEjumping #Canada #BASEjumper #roperescue
globalnews.ca/news/10974856/sq

2025-01-24

Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief
'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'
#rescue #accident #BASEjumping #Canada #BASEjumper #roperescue
globalnews.ca/news/10974856/sq

Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief
'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'
#rescue #accident #BASEjumping #Canada #BASEjumper #roperescue
globalnews.ca/news/10974856/sq

2024-11-01

The fast-growing, supremely dangerous sport of base-jumping is the subject of @thecontinent’s latest photo essay, which shows the nascent scene in South Africa.

continent.substack.com/p/photo

#ExtremeSports #BaseJumping #SouthAfrica #Africa #Photography #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

2024-10-28

The village of Mürren lies on a terrace above the steep rockfaces of Mirrenflue. The Lauterbrunnen Valley is very well known for its options for basejumping. Jumping down the Mirrenflue is one of the many places for that.

#MountainMonday #Mürren #Basejumping

A mountain village above a steep rockface

Bridge Day 2024

Nikon d3400, ISO 400
Arsenal Telear 250 mm lens for Pentacon Six, with adaptor
1/1000 at f9.5
Cropped from the 2mp jpeg, so not really high quality.

#bridgeday #westvirginia #photography #basejumping

2024-08-03

Successful BASE jump... but not, unfortunately, a successful landing, at the Grand Canyon

NPS: On Thursday, August 1, at approximately 7:30 a.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a visitor who had attempted a BASE jump from Yavapai Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Park rangers responded and located the body of a deceased male approximately 500 feet below the rim, along with a deployed parachute.

nps.gov/grca/learn/news/base-j

#NationalParkService #NPS #BASEjumping #death

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