ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BASE JUMPING
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BASE JUMPING»
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base jumping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Base Jumping: The Ultimate Guide
Discusses all aspects of BASE jumping including its history, culture, technique, equipment, and important people in the extreme sport.
From the crazy locations to the gear needed, kids will be captivated by this extreme sport. Unique quotes and facts add dimension to the text, without making it overwhelming.
3
Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall
In "BASE 66," Jevto Dedijer tells the tale of his hunger for the ultimate adrenaline rush.
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Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy
He's up here with me on the New River Gorge Bridge, and together we're
exploring the BASE jumping world we first glimpsed with Rick, thinking about its
connections to edgework. Dragan Milovanovic, the colleague who organized this
...
Looks at the history of BASE jumping and discusses how and where people train for it, safety issues, equipment needed, and the challenges unique to this extreme sport.
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Epidemiology of Injury in Adventure and Extreme Sports
Although not reported in detail here, the impression is that minor or moderate
adverse events that occur with BASE jumping are similar in magnitude, cause,
and consequence as those associated with civilian or military parachute jumping
...
T.W. Heggie, D.J. Caine, 2012
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Digital Masters - Adventure Photography: Capturing the World ...
A latest entry in the series that includes People Photography and Travel Photography counsels readers on how to photograph popular extreme outdoor sports, providing coverage of equipment, capturing fast-moving subjects and overcoming ...
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Men on the Edge: Taking Risks and Doing Gender Among
Base ...
This book challenges highly individualistic accounts of voluntary risk taking and extends early attempts to explain the gendered participation in the sport by drawing on wider debates about modernization, individualization, community ...
9
Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall
BASE jumping organizations have sprung up in countries around the world. The
initial pioneering spirit has disappeared, for better or worse. Some people even
BASE jump full-time for a living (often not for long). Today, there are companies ...
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Edgework: The Sociology of Risk-taking
that has built up around BASE-jumping, the three-person research team of Fer-
rell, Milovanovic, and Lyng attended the Bridge Day festival for two consecutive
years (1997 and 1998) to conduct a "situated ethnography" of this edgework
event ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BASE JUMPING»
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base jumping is used in the context of the following news items.
HERO4 Session: GoPro releases its smallest, lightest waterproof …
"But the Session isn't just for nutters base jumping from mountains – GoPro wants this diddy camera to be used by ordinary folk." Asteroid Alert ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
Watch: Wild wing-suit base jumping stunt on GoPro
The jumper thinks he has set a world record for base jumping. The jumper did this stunt last September but the GoPro footage was released this ... «WFLA, Jul 15»
American base jumper killed after crashing into rock face in …
Base jumping involves leaping from a high place such as a cliff or a tall building, with a parachute which is then opened after a freefall. A similar ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
How a woman overcame her fears to become a BASE jumper
But the rigours of mountaineering were quite different from BASE jumping, an extreme sport. BASE jumping, which is an offshoot of skydiving, ... «The Weekend Leader, Jul 15»
Video: Italian BASE jumper completes 100-mph jump in wing suit
Emanuele's stunt is one of the wildest in the history of wing-suit BASE jumping, and it's either incredibly heroic — or completely crazy. «KSL.com, Jul 15»
Lookout for WTC BASE jumpers gets community service
... buddies leaped from the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower, originally was charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor illegal BASE jumping. «New York Post, Jul 15»
Lookout For One World Trade Center BASE Jumpers Gets …
Brady, Markovich and Rossig were convicted last week of reckless endangerment and BASE jumping – both misdemeanors — but were ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
Blog: Base jumping from the top of New Zealand's tallest building …
I am about to jump from a platform 192m above ground, with nothing but a rope to slow my fall. The fact hits me as the glass lift begins its ascent ... «The Straits Times, Jun 15»
Reader Participation Day: Should BASE Jumping Be Legal In …
In mid-May, world-class climber Dean Potter and a friend were killed in a BASE-jumping incident in Yosemite National Park. A lengthy New ... «National Parks Traveler, Jun 15»
Three men in viral video of One World Trade BASE jump were just …
They then jumped from a height of nearly a quarter of a mile in a vivid demonstration of BASE jumping, an extreme sport that can involve ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
