How Fast Can You Fall?
An Australian couple in their 40’s have set the world base jumping record. [Via Sakshi]
After an epic 22-day climb up a near-vertical Himalayan peak, an Australian couple in their 40s took just two minutes to “fly” back to base camp and smash the world record for the highest BASE jump in history…
The leap broke Singleman’s own BASE jumping record of 6258 metres, which he set with Nic Feteris at the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan in 1992.Singleman, a medical doctor, and Swan, a former businesswoman who overcame her fear of heights to take up BASE jumping, had tried to break the 1992 record seven years ago but were foiled by bad weather.
Base jumping is widely referred to as the riskiest sport in the world. You don’t suffer a knee injury or a broken bone like in football at worst. You can die. This possibility does not fill these guys with fear. It pumps up the adrenaline for all the more excitement.
How fast did these guys fall? Statistically, it was 6604-metres in two minutes. You do the math! Don’t want to? Look at it from another angle then. It was faster than the Indian sensex fall.
Tags: Base Jumping.
