see if she is in good physical condition enough to do it. a couple of days later i went and visited her. she s so sharp. she was actually in really good shape for 102 years old. that s when i decided to go for it. i said, would you jump and i said, i don t see why not. as i said there s only two things that happen. i could either make it or i wouldn t and either way it didn t make any difference. reporter: june 2nd, 2013, sean and dorothy get suited up for their tandem jump from the middle of the bridge. i put her in full body armor, pad s made for motorcross just in case we jumped in to anything. i didn t want her to get hurt. cameras are positioned to capture every angle on sean s helmet, dorothy s hand and another base jumper who will jump alongside them. we had to have her climb over the rail which was going to be challenging. so we brought a ladder out. i climbed over the ladder and got over the railing on to this stand.
look at it from afar. so, that s why i named it the w hotel. and that day we were jumping room 817, which is 817 feet. has a really flat takeoff. drive right to the exit point and pretty much just run off the top of this thing. let s go! ted is a seasoned base jumper, with more than 600 jumps under his belt, not even a number of nasty crashes have deterred his enthusiasm. during jumps, he makes sure to stay focused on his number one priority. not dying. challenges of base jumping are to be able to do it successfully and wake up the next day and do it again. incredibly dangerous sport and there are a lot of risks and only experience, safety, and making smart decisions let s you
now that s progressive. i love myself as a [ high-pitched ] nailed it! a base jumper s ambitious acrobatics send him crashing into the bottom of a rocky canyon. before i could even know what s happening, bang, i hit the ground. july 23rd, 2009. rifle, colorado. base jumper ted davenport and his friends are preparing to leap off what they call route 17 of the hotel. i was one of the first persons to ever jump this object and the shape of the cliff is about half a mile around and it is formed into a w, if you
service from there. you got somebody on the phone? i called 911 and it s not connecting. eventually help arrives. the driver s injuries are minor, but rob s story, major. back at the station i walked in the door and i had a big grin on my face and i said, you guys have to see this. jaws were dropped. the footage rob shot goes viral, garnering more than 1.5 million hits on youtube. the ramp has been redesigned to ensure truck driver safety. rob still marvels at how he wound up at the right place at the right time, even though it was the wrong place and the wrong time for the driver. the fact that i had my camera set up and pointed towards the ramp when the truck was coming down, i can t imagine i am speechless. the timing couldn t have been more perfect. you never think that anything like this is going to happen when you are going out on a shoot. coming up, a base jumper
is awesome! take my picture, quick. dude, man, that s a lot, geez, man, i m trying to jump off i m a b.a.s.e. jumper. i jump off of cliffs, buildings, antennas, bridges and parachutes. now i m sitting on more b.a.s.e jumps than anyone on the planet. but dasher takes it to the next level when a buddy of his makes a unique request. a friend of mine makes kayaking movies, and he asked me if i could jump out of an airplane with a kayak. dasher loves skydiving, but kayaking is a different story. kayaks and rivers, i am not very good. it s kind of a scary sport, you know, because your legs are locked into a boat. and as soon as you get upside down and you ve got rocks flying by your head under the water and you can t breathe. but never one to back down from a challenge, dasher decides to give skyacking a try. first jump we did, i was real nervous. i had a good escape plan to get