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Title: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: droner on March 17, 2014, 02:32:20 EDT ......and it will be shown live on The Discovery Channel. Tentatively scheduled for May.
I kid you not. Title: Re: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: midtnvol on March 17, 2014, 03:23:52 EDT I jumped off the back porch the other day. I wasn't wearing my wing suit though. I''ll be OK in a few days. It's only a couple of feet high.
Title: Re: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: VinnieVOL on March 17, 2014, 04:06:35 EDT Umm.. good luck to him.
Title: Re: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: GreggO on March 17, 2014, 04:09:14 EDT Last time I went off the porch (Aug.), I broke my left shoulder. Out of 9 broken bones (and this was just a major crack), it's been the worst to recover from. If the guy wants to jump off a mountain, sayonara dude! G Title: Re: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: Black Diamond Vol on March 17, 2014, 04:17:04 EDT When I was a little kid (age 5 or so), I got a Superman costume for Halloween. And of course I thought the cape gave me the ability to fly. My mom stopped me from jumping off our back deck (which was probably 10-15 feet off the ground) just in the nick of time. :laugh:
Title: Re: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: 73Volgrad on March 17, 2014, 04:49:02 EDT Has anyone watched the You Tube video of the wing suit jumper that jumped off the cliff and you see he hit a cliff on the way down? You see the color of his suit tangled in trees on the cliff face. When they finally manged to get a rescue crew to rappel down to him, he was dead.
In the Himalayas, there is usually high whipping winds over the peaks. The idiot may jump off a cliff at a lower level, but I doubt he can control where he lands. He will probably get smashed into the mountain side going down. If he is determined to do it, more power to him. You should be able to live and potentially die as you want. I would prefer being shot in my 90s by my mistresses' husband as I ran out off her room rather than jump off a cliff. But that is just me. Title: Re: A man wearing a wing-suit will jump off of Mt. Everest....... Post by: Jedi Master on March 18, 2014, 12:01:23 EDT I don't think he'll live to tell about it, assuming he jumps from the summit. Too much can go wrong up there. It won't be a typical base jump, IMO.
I will say, though, that if he is successful then subsequent summit climbers will be envious, because getting back down off that mountain is no easy task. |