father of base jumping. we were entirely successful in all our cliff jumps because i feel that we were constantly led by the idea that we were glorifying mankind s beautiful spirit of seeking adventure and that we were within our rights of freedom and dominion over all the earth. there are many manmade laws that aren t laws at all that need to be broken. one is a belief that it s impossible to jump off a cliff. oh. joining me now from orlando high altitude mountain climber jovia quinn, also a base jumper himself. great to meet you. i lived in west virginia for a period of time and covered bridge day, any jumper knows what i m talking about. can you tell me why you do this? well, i think it s trying to make the impossible possible. it s a dream. i think that there s quite a few
i m like, dude, look at me, this 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
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the ground. july 23rd, 2009. rifle, colorado. base jumper ted davenport and his friend are preparing to leap off what they call room 817 of the w 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 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. he makes sure to stay focused on his number one priority. not dying.
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