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== Records == ; Lowest : Go Fast Basejumper Johan Vervoort jumps from the 24 meters tall observation tower in the town of [[Herentals]] the exit point was 2 meters below the top of the tower, making the jump 22 meters high. ; Biggest : ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' first listed a BASE jumping record with [[Carl Boenish]]'s 1984 leap from Trollveggen ([[Troll Wall]]) in Norway. It was described as the highest BASE jump. The jump was made two days before Boenish's death at the same site. ; Highest altitude : On August 26, 1992, Australians Nic Feteris and Glenn Singleman made a BASE jump from an altitude of {{convert|6286|m|ft}} jump off Great [[Trango Towers]] Pakistan. It was the world's highest BASE jump off the earth at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/leap-from-the-top-of-the-world/2006/06/08/1149359863372.html| title=Leap from the top of the world|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=2006-06-08}}</ref> On May 23, 2006, Australians Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan made a BASE jump from an altitude of {{convert|6604|m|ft}} off [[Meru Peak]] in Northern India. They jumped in wingsuits. On May 5, 2013, Russian [[Valery Rozov]] jumped off [[Changtse]] (the northern peak of the [[Mount Everest]] massif) from a height of {{convert|7220|m|ft}}. Using a specially-developed wingsuit, he glided down to the [[Rongbuk glacier]] more than 1,000 meters below, setting a new world record for highest altitude base jump.<ref>{{cite web | title=Daredevil Makes Record-breaking Leap from Mount Everest| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10085870/Watch-record-breaking-Everest-base-jump-filmed-on-daredevils-helmet-camera.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529132113/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10085870/Watch-record-breaking-Everest-base-jump-filmed-on-daredevils-helmet-camera.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-05-29 |date=2013-05-29 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=2013-05-29}}</ref> He had previously jumped off mountains in Asia, Antarctica and South America in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. On October 5, 2016, Rozov broke his own record for highest altitude BASE jump when he leapt from a height of {{convert|7700|m|ft}} from [[Cho Oyu]], the sixth-highest mountain in the world, landing on a glacier approximately two minutes later at an altitude of around {{convert|6000|m|ft}}. He later died while attempting another high-altitude BASE jump in Nepal in 2017. ; Other : Other records include Captain Daniel G. Schilling setting the Guinness World Record for the most BASE jumps in a twenty-four-hour period. Schilling jumped off the [[Perrine Bridge]] in Twin Falls, Idaho, a record 201 times on July 8, 2006. In 2018 at Eikesdalen, Norway a world record was set with 69 BASE jumpers jumping from the cliff Katthammaren.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.buzzvideos.com/sports/251686/69-base-jumpers-set-new-world-record|title=BuzzVideos β 69 BASE Jumpers set new world record|via=www.buzzvideos.com}}</ref>
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