Jump from Everest

[Rstanley0312 1]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/discovery-to-air-leap-off-mount-everest-in-may/

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[pchapman 279]

So it is a planned wingsuit BASE jump sometime in the future after other training is done, by a young but very accomplished mountaineer. (Being BASE, this might have to move to Bonfire.)

I didn't know there was enough of a 'rock drop' anywhere near the summit for a wingsuit launch, especially for high altitude air. I'm curious where the exit point will be.

Wonder what the acceptable launch conditions will be - Not sure what kind of winds wingsuit BASE jumpers are handling these days. Finding calmer or smooth wind conditions can be tough on Everest, up so high in the atmosphere, but one does get light wind days. (Such as for paragliding launches that have been done up there.)

If it can be pulled off, I guess the record for altitude that it would be beating, would be Singleman & Swan's Mt Meru record for BASE and BASE wingsuit altitude?

[chadsmith1991 0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAfYbzL90Mo
I dont know how to make a 'clicky' but I thought this had been done last year?

[Rstanley0312 1]

pchapman

So it is a planned wingsuit BASE jump sometime in the future after other training is done, by a young but very accomplished mountaineer. (Being BASE, this might have to move to Bonfire.)

I didn't know there was enough of a 'rock drop' anywhere near the summit for a wingsuit launch, especially for high altitude air. I'm curious where the exit point will be.

Wonder what the acceptable launch conditions will be - Not sure what kind of winds wingsuit BASE jumpers are handling these days. Finding calmer or smooth wind conditions can be tough on Everest, up so high in the atmosphere, but one does get light wind days. (Such as for paragliding launches that have been done up there.)

If it can be pulled off, I guess the record for altitude that it would be beating, would be Singleman & Swan's Mt Meru record for BASE and BASE wingsuit altitude?

I have many of the same questions.....

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[Southern_Man 0]

chadsmith1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAfYbzL90Mo

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[Boogers 0]

pchapman

I didn't know there was enough of a 'rock drop' anywhere near the summit for a wingsuit launch, especially for high altitude air. I'm curious where the exit point will be.

I read your comment, imagined the summit of Everest in my mind, and just had a crazy idea pop into my head...

What if you slid down the mountainside on your belly, geared-up and in wingsuit, like sliding down the face of a wave while body surfing. Could you reach enough speed that at some point you could lift your upper body and arms, and get some wind under your wings, thereby achieving lift-off and flight?

By gosh, just think of it! You could take off like an airplane, go into freefall, proximity fly the terrain, and finally deploy and land under a parachute.

This would open up many new possibilities as to where launches could be achieved. You would no longer need a cliff, but just a steep smooth surface. Use a boogie board, or mechanics creeper.

I see someone trying this within the next year...

Okay, crazy idea over.

[ryoder 1,590]

Boogers

***I didn't know there was enough of a 'rock drop' anywhere near the summit for a wingsuit launch, especially for high altitude air. I'm curious where the exit point will be.

I read your comment, imagined the summit of Everest in my mind, and just had a crazy idea pop into my head...

What if you slid down the mountainside on your belly, geared-up and in wingsuit, like sliding down the face of a wave while body surfing. Could you reach enough speed that at some point you could lift your upper body and arms, and get some wind under your wings, thereby achieving lift-off and flight?

By gosh, just think of it! You could take off like an airplane, go into freefall, proximity fly the terrain, and finally deploy and land under a parachute.

This would open up many new possibilities as to where launches could be achieved. You would no longer need a cliff, but just a steep smooth surface. Use a boogie board, or mechanics creeper.

I see someone trying this within the next year...

Okay, crazy idea over.

Interesting idea;
If this guy can hit 130.7mph in this position: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAkj1UBY1c

then imagine what a guy lying prone on a sled could do.

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[Boogers 0]

ryoder

Interesting idea; If this guy can hit 130.7mph in this position: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhAkj1UBY1c

then imagine what a guy lying prone on a sled could do.

Good video, related to this crazy idea. Now imagine that bicyclist wearing a wing suit, and at top speed he jumps up from the bike, oriented horizontal to the ground, and inflates his wings. Poof! Like magic, he could transition from pedaling to flying. He could even use that forward speed to do a pop-up maneuver to gain some altitude above the bike.

Who's going to be the first to try this? Anyone? Hello?...

[dqpacker 7]

chadsmith1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAfYbzL90Mo
I dont know how to make a 'clicky' but I thought this had been done last year?

i thought that turned out to not be off everest but a cliff near by and the name everest was used to get more attention.

[chadsmith1991 0]

I didn't know that!

[bakerjan 0]

dqpacker

***http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAfYbzL90Mo
I dont know how to make a 'clicky' but I thought this had been done last year?

i thought that turned out to not be off everest but a cliff near by and the name everest was used to get more attention.

No, it was Everest, north face, but not from the 29,000 feet summit, it was at 23,000 feet, LOL.

Jan

[jakee 1,500]

bakerjan

i thought that turned out to not be off everest but a cliff near by and the name everest was used to get more attention.

No, it was Everest, north face, but not from the 29,000 feet summit, it was at 23,000 feet, LOL.

No, it was from the ridge leading up Mt Changtse, which is connected with Everest but is a seperate mountain.

Changtse on the left, Everest on the right.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[riggerrob 643]

Up-slope (anabatic) winds could help.

[bakerjan 0]

jakee

***i thought that turned out to not be off everest but a cliff near by and the name everest was used to get more attention.

No, it was Everest, north face, but not from the 29,000 feet summit, it was at 23,000 feet, LOL.

No, it was from the ridge leading up Mt Changtse, which is connected with Everest but is a seperate mountain.

Changtse on the left, Everest on the right.

So Red Bull just flat out lied? It seemed they were making it seem like top of Everest when it was farther down, but if it wasn't Everest at all, that sucks, next thing we'll find out is Red Bull doesn't give you wings, LOL.

Jan

[fastphil 0]

pchapman

So it is a planned wingsuit BASE jump sometime in the future after other training is done, by a young but very accomplished mountaineer. (Being BASE, this might have to move to Bonfire.)

I didn't know there was enough of a 'rock drop' anywhere near the summit for a wingsuit launch, especially for high altitude air. I'm curious where the exit point will be.

Wonder what the acceptable launch conditions will be - Not sure what kind of winds wingsuit BASE jumpers are handling these days. Finding calmer or smooth wind conditions can be tough on Everest, up so high in the atmosphere, but one does get light wind days. (Such as for paragliding launches that have been done up there.)

If it can be pulled off, I guess the record for altitude that it would be beating, would be Singleman & Swan's Mt Meru record for BASE and BASE wingsuit altitude?

In a stiff breeze up there they could tie a string to him and fly him like a kite...