I’ve used contractor trash bags from Home Depot to glissade down from a summit climb but THIS takes it for wilderness resourcefulness and repurposing YO! GLAD 😝 you made the landing. Glad you made the video. Big props 😲
That's very nice. He went through those steps: -Go on mountain -Base Jump with a trashbag on his body -Base Jump with a trashbag on his body except it kinda seems to work like a wingsuit almost -Wingsuit flight with trashbag because it works as a wingsuit completely -Deployment -Land Nice.
This sort of reminds me of my childhood. Back in about 1976 at the age of ten, I was playing with an action man soldier that had a parachute. Many happy hours were spent throwing it out of the bedroom window, then I had the brainwave of making my own parachute from a bed sheet. I climbed up onto the admittedly low roof of a local building, parachute strapped to my back, and proceeded to jump. I think that you can guess the rest!!! Happy days.
Actually, he's very privileged to have access to heavy duty glad bags. The natives of Rapa Nui jump off Rano Kau, their largest volcano, with wingsuits made of Phoenix Petrel feathers, and they don't have parachutes, so they have to land in the water at the base of steep cliffs and those waters are shark infested.
I have a feeling that this pilot refined his design in the Stockholm wind tunnel, and did a few hundred jumps on it out of an airplane first and then a few hundred BASE jumps with it which were not proximity and what we are seeing here is the culmination of all that preparation... Or hell... maybe he just sent it. :-) But that drone footage ... Ho ho... just as amazing!
These guys can fly anything. I bet he jumped it a couple times from a big cliff and got comfortable right away. I highly doubt any drop zone let him in the plane with it. I only say this because I used to jump and it is common practice to take new wingsuits straight to the cliff. 2 of my suits don't even fit skydive parachutes and aren't allowed from airplanes.
Insane extreme level and ofc simply outstanding footage. Damn I prolly bener try wingsuit in mu life for obvious reasons. Excellent performance but please take care and if you get harmed I wish you gettting well as soon as possible.
Imagine showing this to the wacky guys that first tried to fly flapping pieces of cloth like birds' wings or jumping off a tower with an umbrella like 150 years ago. This trash bag guy is guy is a spiritual successor.
I was surprised the suit would be able to support the brass balls involved here, but then I remembered they made sure to balance it out by emptying their noggin.
That's a setup for one hell of a McGuiver episode. I'd have thought if you were doing this jump (forgive me for knowing nothing about the subject), you'd not ride so close to the faces under the expectation that the unpredictable would happen (bag tears apart, throws you into a spin or whatever?)
Hefty missed their RedBull-esque moment to emblazon that parachute and sponsor that leap. Duck tape, too. Sigh, alas there are the ubiquitous lawyers to battle.
Insane. Fantastic. Somewhere up there with Alex Honnold & his extreme ropeless cimbing. Twisted my gut to watch -- glad you pulled it off and hope this is a last time. Unneccessarily dangerous to replicate.
