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VIDEO: BASE jumper's handstand launch doesn't go to to plan

BASE jumping, in case you didn't know, is a sport that involves jumping off tall objects and depl...
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17.29 22 Oct 2014


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VIDEO: BASE jumper's handstand launch doesn't go to to plan

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17.29 22 Oct 2014


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BASE jumping, in case you didn't know, is a sport that involves jumping off tall objects and deploying a parachute at very low altitudes.

If that sounds incredibly dangerous, that's because it is. It ranks as one of the world's most deadly pastimes, with a fatality and injury rate 43 times higher than parachuting from a plane.

Undaunted by figures like these, one man recently tried to spice things up by launching himself off a bridge from a handstand.

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The results are all too predictable...

But don't worry, he appears to assume the correct position just before the video ends, and commenters on the video who witnessed the scene say he landed safely in the end.


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