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Tim Emmett In Trango Wingsuit Climb
By Jon on 23/07/2012 11:42:40
Brit' climber joining French team to climb Himalayan big wall then BASE jump back down in a wingsuit.
-jumping from the summit using a wingsuit.Trango TowersThe distinctive peak of Great Trango (6300m) - think Dolomite-like rock peaks transplanted to the Himalaya - in the Karakorum, boasts a 7,000-foot vertical granite face, with a well-earned reputation
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Friday Mountain Video
By Jon on 09/10/2009 14:51:15
Stunning footage of wingsuit flying over, around and through the mountains.
clips.And this week, in a thematic sort of way, we're going base-jumping, butin windsuits, the sort of thing Leo Houlding used to parachute in toBaffin Island as part of his Asgard Project. Crazy stuff...To start things off, here are three wingsuit
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People Jumping Off Mountains...
By Jon on 28/08/2012 10:25:15
... there's a lot of it about these days including Les Drus.
. And of course you get added blur on the way down, just in case extreme mountaineering hasn't sparked enough starry-eyed chemicals on your brain...And just imagine if things had always been that way? Hillary and Tenzing's formation wingsuit descent from Everest
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Rab Goes BASE - Video
By Jon on 02/08/2012 11:26:02
A flimsy excuse to show you a nice video thanks to the prescence of a bit of Rab sponsorship mojo...
We're indebted to OM's unofficial jumping out of planes and off high things correspespondent, Charles Ross, for this here cracking BASE Tour video complete with some stunning footage of people, well, jumping off high things really.Oh, and there really does seem to be some sort of...
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Berghaus Live For Adventure Spoofed! - Video
By Jon on 05/07/2012 10:19:23
Remember the epic Berghaus Live For Adventure ad, shot in the Dolomites by Alastair Lee?
Remember the epic Live For Adventure ad that Alastair Lee shot for Berghaus in the Dolomites last year? You know, wingsuits, ridge running, scary climbing, illumated tents with added styling athlete content? Well, apparently Al's son liked it so
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High Altitude BASE - Video
By Jon on 23/07/2012 13:32:25
Climbers taking the rapid way down from 6,000m plus Hundoy in Peru.
A bit of a follow-on from our news story about the expedition by Tim Emmett and three French climbers to climb a massive big wall on Great Trango in the Karakorum and then throw themselves off the top with a mix of wingsuits and parachutes to slow
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Friday Video - Flying Over Mountains
By Jon on 28/05/2010 12:44:01
More outdoors-friendly online streaming video clips for a Friday afternoon.
. This time inwhat we thing are Mirages. I guess if you're a neutral nation thenthere's not that much to do bar make stunning videos of your trainingflights...And last but not least, who needs a plane when you have a wingsuit?Quite bonkers...And that
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Friday Matinee - European Outdoor Film Tour Special
By Nikalas Cook on 21/09/2012 15:09:00
Having revealed the full programme on Wednesday, fire up your enthusiasm by checking out three of the trailers
BirdmenWingsuit based insanity. If you’ve not got a head for heights, the opening shots of them standing on the edges of various precipices will definitely have you feeling a bit queasy.The CrossingA common pub debate amongst outdoorsy types
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Al Lee's New Film Project Revealed
By Jon on 23/03/2009 12:03:31
Leo Houlding, massive Arctic big walls and BASE-jumping make up the Asgard Project...
, the film follows Houlding's progress as heprepares to attempt the first free ascent of the West Face of Mt Asgardon Baffin Island. Having climbed the route, Leo and his Americanclimbing partner Sean Leary, then intend to jump from the tower in wingsuits
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Watch The New Berghaus TV Ad Now!
By Jon on 02/10/2011 23:46:11
Final version of first ever Berghaus TV advert filmed by Alastair Lee in the Dolomites is now available for viewing.
athletes feature in the ad - climbers Leo and Leah Crane, mountain biker Rob Jarman and mountain runners/mountaineers Philippe and Anna Gatta.• Houlding was dropped on the summit of a Dolomite peak by helicopter equipped only with a wing-suit and parachute
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