Height, depth and spaceWorld record
Highest altitude BASE jump
7,700 m
25,262 ft
- Holder
- Valery Rozov
- Year
- Standing since
- 2016 (10 years)
What to remember
On 5 October 2016, Valery Rozov leapt from Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world, at an altitude of 7,700 m. That day he broke his own record for the highest BASE jump, landing on a glacier about two minutes later at around 6,000 metres.
BASE jumping means parachuting from a fixed object rather than from an aircraft. The name is an acronym for four kinds of launch points: buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs). After an optional freefall delay, the jumper opens a parachute to slow down and land; a popular form uses a wingsuit.
This record does not measure the length of the fall but the altitude of the starting point. BASE jumps usually start from much lower heights than skydives from aircraft, and the jumper carries only one parachute.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “BASE jumping” (revision used 1373924270). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Wingsuiting, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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