World Record BASE Jump off the
Great Trango Tower - 1992
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| Those scenes where the baddies chasing James Bond fall off a mountain top are, understandably enough, enacted by dummies. "The Most Dangerous Jump in the World" from the top of a 6,237ft cliff-face - is undertaken by real people, though you might still feel justified in calling them dummies! Things don't go as they planned. They tumble out of control and accelerate to 125 miles an hour while only inches away from the vertical wall of granite..... Nic Feteris does BASE jumping for fun. After ten years of these hair raising plunges he is looking for a fresh challenge. With his partner Glenn Singleman, who has never BASE jumped before, he decides to climb the tallest cliff in the world and then launch himself off it. The Great Trango Tower in Pakistan has a vertical drop of over 6,000 feet high and looks awesome. The story of the months of preparation, the three-week climb and the final moment of truth makes nail-biting film, a tribute not only to the derring-do of Feteris and Singleman but of the film crew which brilliantly captures their fear and exhilaration. The film is nicely paced with a measured build-up to the aching climb up the mountain before that heart-stopping leap into space and a descent which seemed to go on forever. Few film sequences will remain fixed in the mind quite so long as that one. BASEClimb is more than just a great film about an amazing feat, it is a warm, personal account of a truly extraordinary adventure. Presented as part of National Geographic's Voyager III Series, it has been watched by over 100 million TV viewers in eighty countries. |
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Nic Feteris and Glenn Singleman's reflections on the night before the jump: Glenn Singleman: "….it's like the whole year funneling into 10 seconds and that 10 seconds will happen tomorrow. It's too late for second thoughts. You'll only have second thoughts if you don't think you're gonna to do it." Nic Feteris: "Dying climbing a mountain or jumping off something has no romantic appeal to it whatsoever. It's the ultimate failure of any sort of adventure activity. I don't want to die." Glenn Singleman: "One person's dream is another person's nightmare. Nobody has the same drives or ambitions or "volume" to their lives." A team member, to Glenn: "So are you saying that life will be richer tomorrow after you've jumped off?" Glenn Singleman: "Oh yeah!"
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Times - Most of us would sooner die than have to jump off buildings and bridges, but Nic Feteris does it for fun. After ten years of these hair raising plunges he is looking for a fresh challenge. With a fellow Australian Glenn Singleman, who has never done this sort of thing before, he decides to climb the tallest cliff in the world and then launch himself off it. The Trango Tower cliff in Pakistan is 6,000 feet high and looks awesome. The story of the months of preparation, the three-week climb and the final moment of truth makes nail-biting film, a tribute not only to the derring-do of Feteris and Singleman but of the camera team which brilliantly captures their fear and exhilaration. The Independent - ………It was beautifully paced. A measured build-up to the aching climb up the mountain before that heart-stopping leap into space and a descent which seemed to go on forever. Few film sequences will remain fixed in the mind quite so long as that one. |
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Highest Altitude World Record BASE jump, off the Great Trango Tower, 1992 | |||
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