F*#k that, base jumping in to a pit like that! What I do for a living is insane, I jump from planes as part of my duties. But in to a pit that is maby the length of a football field across is just not enough space for me. It would take maby 2 seconds with a bad gust of wind from below to blow them in to the side, then it's all over from there. I've been blown farther than that using a T10D from a plane at 1,200 feet up. So I know with how deep that cave is there is a lot more time for things to go wrong than there is to react. personally that is just stupid but that is my opinion.
WAIT...are you suggesting this is a (hang on) STUPID endeavor? I mean, TOTALLY STUPID !
Or maybe I misinterpreted your post
I would have done this if I had been convicted of murder and this was my only way to continue to live.
OR... if this was the only way to save my family from a future under (pick one) Osama bin Laden, Hitler, Cesaer Chavez, Hillary Clinton, Saddam Hussein, GWB, Big Bird, Muhamar Khadafhi, Dick Cheney, Don Shula, or the very reverend Jesse Jackson, and the very-reverend-and-perpetually-outraged-and-financially-supported-school-of-baseless-yet-incessant-chaser-of-racial-complaint-Al Sharpton, and maybe, Charles DeGaulle.
Forgive spelling errors...also, forgive third Chardonnay errors.
You never truly know life until you relinquish it! I've heard enough from the naysayers and I applaud your effort, well said. As a disclaimer I have not done anything extreme after doing the most extreme thing of my entire life......giving birth, and subsequently attempting to raise this child as well. That being said, oms, this video brings back memories and reminds me of why all sane people should do it! Okay, here's what I was going to say (I will follow with a more logical and cohesive format after)....................the pure rush to feel alive so singularly in only seconds is so life affirming it boggles the mind.....you feel weightless....you laugh so purely......you struggle to breath (that is you are aware of having to take in breath.....at what other moment in your life do you have to make effort to breath other than death).....I miss it, I feel ..............less.............don't get me wrong, I have a child and I willingly sacrifice any selfish endeavours I had prior to her birth. But, ya, I kinda miss it. If Alexandra wants to jump out of a perfectly good plane will I support her.....I dunno.......would you?
I have jumped out of a perfectly good plane, well maybe I should just call it a well maintained plane, well.. just a plane. In risk assessment most people get it all wrong. My jumping out of a plane is statistically less risk than the drive to the jump field.
So statistically your thrill of cheating death should come from driving your car, and the safer thing is jumping into a cave.
I've NOT jumped from a perfectly f-ed up airplane, one that was having an electrical problem (flaming wires) during that famous time when Ronny fired all the air traffic control people, at night, with deer all over the runway (couldn't land) talk about weighing your options! Now THAT was a rush!
As to your question, Riz, yeah. I turned 50 this year and my "little girl" bought me my first jump. She was so excited I decided to buy her one, and we went together. The secret of living well is being in the moment, and risky behavior enhances our awareness of that moment. My daughter was a baby what seemed not many moments ago, so you'll jump again, perhaps with yours. Now is the moment that matters and can be just as thrilling with her as it will ever be, even when when the day comes too soon that you jump together.
yeah, Riza...did that. She is a prize, but to her conservative and loving dad, it was hard to hold back feelings that say "NO....NO...ARE YOU NUTS?...NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
But she did it anyway. Says she'd do it again, but actually, I think not...her moment of danger/challenge/daring came, she did it, and now it's over.
A DAREDEVIL base jumper from Wyoming has turned into Britney Spears.
Wally Dunecst, a 28-year-old moral philosophy student at Hamilton University, Evanston, had just completed his 857th jump from the 600ft US Bank Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday when the incredible transformation took place.
Fellow jumper Josh Rheingold (83) was one of the first on the scene.
"Wally made a perfect landing and was just gathering up his chute when he started screaming 'Oh my God' and his hair began to get longer," Mr Rheingold told The Times.
"Within half a minute he'd grown breasts and began singing and dancing. Some of the guys were pretty impressed. I personally thought he looked like Marlene Dietrich, but some of the younger guys knew better."
Mr Dunecst, widely regarded as one of the country's foremost exponents of base jumping, is at a loss to explain why his transformation from a six foot 250 pound male into a skinny little spoiled shit of a pop princess took place.
"There was no warning it was going to happen," he said. "I ain't been taking drugs or anything. My body's always been a temple and I looked after myself pretty well."
Asked if he still had a future as a base jumper, Mr Dunecst said: "I wouldn't have thought so, but it's no big deal. I spent all last night rubbing my tits and fingering my clit, so I don't figure I'll be needing any new thrills for a while."
Mr Dunecst's tutor at Hamilton, Professor Martin Salinger, said: "We're all shocked of course, but I am looking forward to giving Wally lots of personal counselling and one-to-one therapy."
A spokesman for the U.S. Base Jumping Society commented: "Wally was always an arrogant prick. I don't give a shit."
Hey AF he's a Scottish Journo - sure of it! Despite his denials to the contrary...There really is some nicely written stuff and Like you I reckon he does it for a living (and is currently very bored hence his time spent honing those skills here in Glumbertdom)
Hmmm...Nicely written...Maybe that suggests he's NOT a journo...?
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