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Roman
Trad climber
Bostonia
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Wouldn't that dude that jumped from Trango have this beat?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Dig this when he says...
"Largely unrelated: Here's another big one much closer to home, called the Dent de Crolles. This beauty is an 1800m wingsuit flight with a nice long plateau that you have to clear if you want to get all the vertical out of the jump. Lots of people do it, but when you're standing on the exit point it definitely looks impossible. Tons o' Fun."
hah
This jump makes me think.... and what I want to know is whether or not military could effectively use BASE to mount a small attack on a remote valley location?
critical concern -
getting out of a wing suit effectively
carrying sufficient survival and attack gear
distance max based on height of jump point
is paragliding a better method? next to impossible at night or in rotor winds?
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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Wow is right, cool
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pFranzen
Boulder climber
Portland, OR
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Wouldn't that dude that jumped from Trango have this beat? Certainly seems that way to me, but I could be wrong. I guess the added distance/height with the wingsuit changes things though.
The Trango jump looked scary as hell.
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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the Great Trango Tower is about 6,000 feet, the Eiger jump is over 8,000 feet when you fly out to the valley
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Winthorp Hefflefinger III
Big Wall climber
Alps
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yes... the new exit that Dean found is at 3540m. Grindelwald Grund, the bottom of the valley, is at about 930m.
in feet, i guess the vert is about 8500.
if you guys can think of another mountain with around 600 feet of vertical on top that isn't several days walk from civilization, tell us about it! ;-)
it's amazing (and very logical) how climbers and climbing guide books have contributed so much to new wingsuit jumps in the past 10 years.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Great post Chris...
I thought this little blurb on that site was rather telling...
"If you want my .kmz file then I will send it to you if I know you and I like you."
bwahahahahaha
not just anyone is getting my flight info!!! LOL
Too funny..
also, that last photo on the site of the Dent de Crolles flight..
that looks rather scary from where I sit, and can only imagine the terror in the veins of any who stand up there looking at their intended flight path... I can only imagine... "You just jump?".. "Yes.." And I'm supposed to fly over that other hill way down there...? "Yes... everyone does it!!!"
"WHAT?"
Nice post.. but I'll stick it out here on the ground!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Trango nutballz!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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saw this link from facebook chris, thanks!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 10, 2009 - 03:18am PT
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hey there cris, say, thanks for sharing your passion with us...
oh my.... :O
god bless... :)
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Ezra
Social climber
WA, NC, Idaho Falls
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Oct 10, 2009 - 02:07pm PT
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Can't somebody sack up and base jump off Nanga Parbat's Rupal face?
-kidding of course!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 10, 2009 - 08:15pm PT
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Yawn!
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Weenis
Trad climber
Tel Aviv
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Oct 11, 2009 - 03:49pm PT
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This stuff is outasight man! I found this video of ski gliding the Eiger.
I hope that it hasn't been posted before. The French Cats have got some real 'nads. It seems to leave open a lot of possibilities of skiing/wing suit combos for base jumping. Next.
http://www.break.com/index/ski_gliding_mount_eiger.html
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 11, 2009 - 06:17pm PT
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just watched your video, very, very, cool, Chris! thanks.!
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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very cool!!
I remember watching the Trango film and just being amazed that they kept their s$$$ together when tumbling so close to the wall.
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