Highest BASE Jump // Valery Rozov - Mount Everest ( EDGEsport)
- 10 years ago
Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov has performed the world's highest BASE jump - off the north face of Everest - to mark the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary's first ascent.
Script:
Why climb a mountain?
"Because it is there" - so goes the famous retort by legendary mountaineer George Mallory.
So, why throw yourself off a mountain?
It's a question that is seemingly yet to be posed to Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov - but you would expect him to give a similar response.
Rozov marked the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary by hurling himself off the daunting north face in a death-defying BASE jump.
The 48 year-old jumped from a height of 7,220-metres (23,687-feet) above sea level.
Despite adverse weather conditions with temperatures 18 degrees below zero, Rozov landed successfully - and safely.
It's the highest BASE jump ever completed.
So, it's understandable that he was at least a little bit nervous.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Valery Rozov, Russia:
"It was one of the (most) difficult jumps for me because of the high altitude and my personal physical feeling (which was) not the best of course. I was a little bit nervous that the vertical part at the beginning was short for this altitude."
He spent more than two years preparing for the big jump, and about a minute to complete it. But the memory will surely last a lifetime.
Script:
Why climb a mountain?
"Because it is there" - so goes the famous retort by legendary mountaineer George Mallory.
So, why throw yourself off a mountain?
It's a question that is seemingly yet to be posed to Russian extreme sports star Valery Rozov - but you would expect him to give a similar response.
Rozov marked the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary by hurling himself off the daunting north face in a death-defying BASE jump.
The 48 year-old jumped from a height of 7,220-metres (23,687-feet) above sea level.
Despite adverse weather conditions with temperatures 18 degrees below zero, Rozov landed successfully - and safely.
It's the highest BASE jump ever completed.
So, it's understandable that he was at least a little bit nervous.
SOUNDBITE: (English) Valery Rozov, Russia:
"It was one of the (most) difficult jumps for me because of the high altitude and my personal physical feeling (which was) not the best of course. I was a little bit nervous that the vertical part at the beginning was short for this altitude."
He spent more than two years preparing for the big jump, and about a minute to complete it. But the memory will surely last a lifetime.