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Bridge Day is the only day of the year people are allowed to BASE jump [1] [6] off the bridge into the New River Gorge 876 feet (267 meters) below, one of the few exceptions to a general ban on BASE jumping within the U.S. National Park System. People are also allowed to rappel from the span on Bridge Day. [1]
Davis' jump was part of an organized act of civil disobedience protesting the NPS air delivery regulations (36 CFR 2.17(a)), which make BASE jumping illegal in national park areas. In 2000, Hannes Arch and Ueli Gegenschatz were the first to BASE jump from the 1800-metre-high north face of the Eiger. [34]
The primary legal issue of ski-BASE jumping is related to the legality of performing such jumps within particular locations. The application to perform the first ski-BASE jump by Rick Sylvester at the Yosemite Valley was rejected by national park authorities who banned participants from using the space. [41]
Two Coloradans face criminal charges after allegedly trespassing at a historic cowboy camp at Canyonlands National Park in Utah and stealing artifacts.. Durango, Colorado, residents Roxanne ...
Schwarz and Clusiau began working on “Fly” for seven years following the death of well-known climber Dean Potter, who lost his life while base jumping at Yosemite National Park. More from Variety
American BASE jumper and parachutist, died wearing a wingsuit when her parachute failed to open after jumping from Mount Kinesava at Utah's Zion National Park. [60] [61] BASE jumping is not permitted at Zion National Park. Amber's death was the first BASE jumping fatality reported at Zion in the park's history. [62] 13 March 2014 Sean "Stanley ...
The National Park Service is effectively prohibiting uniformed employees from marching in public events that “could be construed as agency support for a particular issue, position, or political ...
Jerry Moffatt free-soloing L'Horla at Curbar Edge. Free solo climbing (sometimes referred to as soloing in the UK, or third-classing in the US), [6] is where the climber uses no climbing protection whatsoever (and as with all free climbing, no form of climbing aid is used either); [6] they may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk to ascend a single-pitch, or a multi-pitch/big wall ...