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The professional BASE jumping instructor had completed thousands of jumps during 20 years of skydiving experience and 14 years of BASE jumping experience. [148] Several years before his death, he narrowly avoided a serious accident while wingsuiting when he accidentally jumped without a pilot chute. [149] 2 June 2022 Matthew Glen Munting 35 Italy
Ammon McNeely (June 3, 1970 – February 18, 2023) was an American rock climber who specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, and who set many speed climbing records and made the first "one-day ascent" for many climbing routes on El Capitan in Yosemite.
In 2014, Lewis was fined for making illegal BASE jumps in Arches National Park. [4] Following his removal of the Utah Monolith, Lewis faced criticism for a 2016 stunt that involved decorating rock formations near Moab with Christmas lights.
A man died after trying to parachute off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Thursday, officials said. The man tried a BASE jump around 7:30 a.m. from Yavapai Point in Grand Canyon National Park ...
McConnell Air Force Base has identified one of its airman as the person who died in a motorcycle accident south of the base on Sunday. Tech. Sgt. Erik Gajate, 28, of Gilbert, Arizona, died at the ...
The aircraft immediately attempted to return to the base but crashed 3,220 feet (980 m) short of the runway in a civilian residential area of Orlando immediately north of the airfield. The crash spread flaming jet fuel over the neighborhood, destroying or damaging eight homes. The crash and fire injured seven children and one adult on the ground.
BASE jumping (/ b eɪ s /) is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend to the ground. BASE is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings , antennas (referring to radio masts ), spans ( bridges ) and earth ( cliffs ).
Steph Davis BASE jumping with a wingsuit. Davis started skydiving in 2007. [8] As she explains in A Perfect Circle, because there are not official dropzones in Moab and she became enamored of skydiving, she needed to learn to BASE jump, so she quickly became a BASE jumper so she could jump in the area around where she lived. [8]