There are two ways to view people who jump off mountain tops or skyscrapers and fly down to earth at incredible speeds and then avoid certain death at the last possible moment by deploying their parachute. One view is to admire their courage, their skill and then marvel as you watch them soar through the […]
There are two ways to view people who jump off mountain tops or skyscrapers and fly down to earth at incredible speeds and then avoid certain death at the last possible moment by deploying their parachute.
One view is to admire their courage, their skill and then marvel as you watch them soar through the sky. The other view is to hope they get some counseling and medication before it’s too late.
Who hasn’t dreamt they could fly? I did some hang gliding off Kill Devil Hills (during my honeymoon) and found the experience exhilarating and magical. (The hang gliding, that is. The honeymoon? That magical experience continues today.)
But it’s one thing to jump off a soft sand dune that gradually slopes down a hundred feet and quite another to jump off the sheer wall of El Capitan in Yosemite.
CNN Films presents Sunshine Superman, Sunday night at 9.
Sunshine Superman tells the love story of Carl and Jean Boenish, the husband and wife team who invented BASE jumping — and their devotion to the freedom and beauty of foot-launched human flight.
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