Basejumpers Find Alternate Use for Wind Turbines
November 3, 2008 · Print This Article
Thrillseekers have a new way to get their kicks: jumping off wind turbines. Since base jumpers are always looking for higher and more interesting things to jump off of, wind turbines provide an exciting new challenge. Check out the green badassery for yourself in this video, in which base jumpers climb to the top of some freaky high turbines, jump off and try to land on a target. Amazing.
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“Freaky high turbines”? Heh - no, those are freaky *low*! Notice how the jumpers have someone on the tower hand-deploy their pilot chutes as they jump? That’s because it’s so low, they wouldn’t have time for the pilot chute to inflate in freefall as usual and deploy their canopy. Yikes!
I’m deathly afraid of heights, so a lot of things look freaky high to me, I guess!