World Record BASE Jump from Mt. Everest

Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian extreme sport star Valery Rozov (48) flew off the north face of Mount Everest - the world's highest BASE jump ever - 7220 meters (23,688ft) above sea level.

The ascent began on the Chinese side on the famous north route. It took him four days to climb from the base camp to the jumping location. At precisely 2:30 p.m. local time he leaped despite adverse weather conditions with temperatures -18 Celsius. Because the cliff at the top was not very high, the initial moments of the leap in the rarified high altitude air were the most critical phase. Rozov needed more time than usual in the thin air to transition from freefall to flying. After that he flew for nearly a full minute at speeds of about 200 km/h (125 mph) along the north face before he landed safely on the Rongbuk glacier - at an altitude of 5,950 meters.

"Only when I got back home did I see how hard it was for me both physically and psychologically,"" said Rozov after getting home to Moscow. ""When you look at the videos you realize that it took a lot longer than usual to get from falling to flying."

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[socaldazed]

when i was 5, i jumped off my garage with an umbrella

[JBOM-qpnq]

That whole video and we get 7 seconds of flight footage? I want my 4 minutes back

[everythingviral]

We'll always remember you Valery. Russian Superman flying off of Everest. Too many great people have died in this sport, but you should never stop chasing your dreams. Rozov will continue to inspire me from beyond the grave.

[tiangersbach]

This video must be titled "How I got Red Bull to pay for the climb to Everest"

[ZipfelmannKD]

The real challenge would be fly to the summit by drinking red bull.

[Daedricbob]

"How much for a return to the top of Everest?"
"About £45, 000 sir"
"How much for a single?"

[MrAkurvaeletbe]

skip to 2:40, actually just skip the entire video, this sucked.

[dzhudy]

RIP Valery... the side of RedBull's athlete program noone talks about...

[dakshkumar]

Sad to tell But this man died yesterday due to a wingsuit accident RIP

[echo]

To save time, you wing suit all the way to Lukla airport from Everest and catch the plane with minutes to spare ...
I cant imagine the efforts put in to reach the launch point. Thumbs up all the way

[wallybrown]

Who are these people that would give this video a thumbs down? This is worthy of all thumbs up fo sho. Most of the people watching this video don’t understand the lack of air density up there when it comes to flying anything. The pilot is falling much longer and faster then sea level, much less control. Much more dangerous. This is called Density Altitude. High density altitude like this is tricky and very dangerous. Nice job guys.

[omerf]

When I was an umbrella, I jumped off my 29 with a garage.

[AlquraishbnuHashim]

Red Bull is crazy before k2 and now Mount Everest

[MagnarNordal]

Why are so many of you negative? The target was to set a world record, and not to ascent the peak. At 7500 meters is the atmospheric pressure only one third of the pressure at sea level. That required a long vertical drop before the speed was high enough for the suit to produce lift and forward speed.

[MikeySkywalker]

He is no longer with us. I had never heard of him, but after seeing this, I almost knew he most likely passed. You cannot jump off mountains like this over and over and over and over again, without having a great chance of dying. I saw a documentary with Jeb Corliss, and he said, his accident where he almost died, gave him fear back, which made him much more careful, and made him value his life again. Unfortunately most of these guys, don't get so lucky like Jeb did. And let me tell you Jeb got LUCKY. RIP Valery.

[bizzchina]

The point where he jumped from, thats not actual peak of Mt. If you say Mt. Everest, you must be on the height of 8, 848 metre. Anyway, respect this man with strong guts. :)

[MrHunterseeker]

I just got this reccomendation.... This video was from 7 years ago. This guy died 3 years ago. Doing what he loved. Jumping off of perfectly good mountains.

[FortitudineVincimus]

They only showed 20 seconds, if that, of his flight... from the highest place on Earth?
That is completely weak dude...

[Shyted]

I stepped off a kerb In town this morning, didn’t even have a support team.

[everythingviral]

ANother beautiful soul claimed by this incredibly dangerous, yet awe inspiring and breath taking sport. RIP!