Editing BASE jumping (section)

==Notable jumps==
* February 2, 1912, [[Rodman Law|Frederick R. Law]] parachuted from the top of the torch of the [[Statue of Liberty]], {{convert|305|ft|m|order=flip}} above the ground.<ref>{{cite news |title=Parachute Leap Off Statue Of Liberty |date=February 3, 1912 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/02/03/archives/parachute-leap-off-statue-of-liberty-steeplejack-had-first-thought.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=4 |access-date=June 4, 2020}}</ref>
* February 4, 1912, [[Franz Reichelt]], tailor, jumped from the first deck of the [[Eiffel Tower]] testing his invention, the coat parachute, and died when he hit the ground. It was his first-ever attempt with the parachute and both the authorities and the spectators believed he intended to test it using a dummy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chute mortelle d'un inventeur de un parachute |newspaper=[[Le Temps (Paris)|Le Temps]] |date=5 February 1912 |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k240753c.zoom.f4.langFR |page=4 |language=fr |access-date=12 July 2013}}</ref>
* In 1913, it is claimed that [[Štefan Banič]] successfully jumped from a 15-story building to demonstrate his [[parachute]] design.<ref>[http://www.cas.sk/clanok/291397/pred-100-rokmi-ziskal-stefan-banic-patent-na-svoj-padak/ "100 years ago Banic received a patent for his parachute" ("Pred 100 rokmi získal Štefan Banič patent na svoj padák")], 24.08.2014, cas.sk (Slovak)</ref><ref name="obit">{{cite web |url=http://www.mat.savba.sk/MATEMATICI/matematici.php?cislo=7 |title=Štefan Banič, Konštruktér, vynálezca (Stefan Banic, Designer, Inventor) |publisher=Slovenská akadémia vied, obituary |access-date=21 October 2010 |language=sk}}</ref>
* In 1913, Russian student Vladimir Ossovski (Владимир Оссовский), from the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory, jumped from the {{convert|53|m|adj=on}} high bridge over the river Seine in Rouen (France), using the parachute RK-1, invented a year before that by [[Gleb Kotelnikov]] (1872–1944). Ossovski planned to jump from the [[Eiffel Tower]] as well, but the Parisian authorities did not allow it.<ref>Russian edition of [[GEO (magazine)|GEO]] magazine, issue 11, November 2006, [http://www.geo.ru/ GEO] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060423134944/http://www.geo.ru/ |date=2006-04-23 }}</ref>
* In 1965, Erich Felbermayr from [[Wels]] jumped from the [[Tre Cime di Lavaredo|Kleine Zinne / Cima piccola di Lavaredo]] in the [[Dolomites]].<ref>[http://www.skydive-wels.at/fallschirmsprungverein-legende.htm Erich Felbermayr, eine Legende] {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813221601/http://www.skydive-wels.at/fallschirmsprungverein-legende.htm |date=2011-08-13 }} (in German)</ref>
* In 1966, [[Michael Pelkey]] and [[Brian Schubert]] jumped from [[El Capitan]] in the [[Yosemite Valley]].<ref name="johnnyutah_com" />
* On January 31, 1972, [[Rick Sylvester]] skied off Yosemite Valley's El Capitan, making the first [[Ski-BASE jumping|ski-BASE jump]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tetongravity.com/story/ski/hot-dog-the-legacy-the-story-of-the-first-base-jump-in-ski-history |title=The Insane Story of Skiing's First Base Jump |date=July 21, 2014 |first=Christian W |last=Dietzel |website=tetongravity.com}}</ref>
* On November 9, 1975, the first person to parachute off the [[CN Tower]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada, was Bill Eustace, a member of the tower's construction crew. He was fired.<ref>{{cite news |last=Saltzman |first=Devyani |title=A towering work of fiction: Toronto's most famous structure narrates a novel that aims high |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7019/is_4_18/ai_n55817272/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708153835/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7019/is_4_18/ai_n55817272/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 July 2012 |access-date=26 March 2012 |newspaper=Literary Review of Canada |date=May 2010}}</ref>
* On July 22, 1975, [[Owen J. Quinn]] parachuted from the North Tower of the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] to publicize the plight of the poor.<ref name=fire-life-safety>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4BWyBELDQIwC&q=%22Owen+J.+Quinn%22+%2B+world+trade+center&pg=PA116 |title=High-Rise Security and Fire Life Safety |first=Geoff |last=Craighead |publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann |date=July 15, 2009 |page=116 |chapter=Daredevils, Protestors and Suicides |access-date=February 4, 2014 |quote=Quoting from: Gillespie, Angus K. "Twin Towers: the Life of New York City's World Trade Center." ''Rutgers University Press'', 1999 |isbn=978-0080877853 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* In 1976, [[Rick Sylvester]] skied off Canada's [[Mount Asgard]] for the ski chase sequence of the James Bond movie ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]'', giving the wider world its first look at BASE jumping.<ref>{{cite book |first=Chic |last=Scott |title=Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering |location=Calgary |publisher=Rocky Mountain Books |year=2000 |isbn=0-921102-59-3 |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=94TqO12vdKwC&pg=PA298 |page=298}}</ref>
* In 1979, Santee, California skydiver Roger Worthington completed one of the first "Span" jumps when he successfully parachuted off the newly constructed {{convert|450|ft|m|order=flip}} [[Pine Valley Creek Bridge]] (A.K.A. Nello Irwin Greer Memorial Bridge) on Interstate 8 in San Diego County. Upon take off he held a red smoke flare in each hand. When interviewed afterward he claimed to know of no other "bridge jumpers" in the country.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Associated Press |date=8 April 1979 |title=Jumps for Joy |page=10 |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19790408.1.10&srpos=8&e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22pine+valley+creek+bridge%22-------1 |access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>
* On February 22, 1982, Wayne Allwood, an Australian skydiving accuracy champion, parachuted from a helicopter over the [[Sydney central business district|Sydney CBD]] and landed on the small top area of Sydney's [[Sydney Tower Eye|Centrepoint Tower]], approximately {{nowrap|{{convert|300|m|ft}}}} above the ground. Upon landing, Allwood discarded and secured his parachute, then used a full-sized reserve parachute to BASE jump into Hyde Park below.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVDlu7dvzGM |title=Centrepoint Tower BASE jump 1982 |publisher=YouTube |date=13 February 2010 |access-date=4 February 2014}}</ref>
* In 1986, [[Welsh people|Welshman]] [[Eric Jones (climber)|Eric Jones]] became the first person to BASE jump from the [[Eiger]].
* On October 22, 1999, Jan Davis died while attempting a BASE jump from [[El Capitan]] in Yosemite Valley. Davis' jump was part of an organized act of civil disobedience protesting the NPS air delivery regulations (36 CFR 2.17(a)), which make BASE jumping illegal in national park areas.
* In 2000, [[Hannes Arch]] and [[Ueli Gegenschatz]] were the first to BASE jump from the {{convert|1800|m|adj=on}} high north face of the [[Eiger]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hannesarch.com/about/biography.html |title=Biographie – Hannes Arch |first=©2016 Hannes |last=Arch |website=Hannes Arch |access-date=26 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326143226/http://www.hannesarch.com/about/biography.html |archive-date=26 March 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* In 2005, [[Karina Hollekim]] became the first woman to perform a ski-BASE.
* In 2009, three women—29-year-old Australian Livia Dickie, 28-year-old Venezuelan Ana Isabel Dao, and 32-year-old Norwegian Anniken Binz—BASE jumped from [[Angel Falls]], the highest waterfall in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://coolermag.com/blogs/anniken_binz/falling-angels |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001044446/http://coolermag.com/blogs/anniken_binz/falling-angels |url-status=dead |title=Falling Angels &#124; Anniken Binz &#124; Blogs &#124; Cooler – snow, surf, life & style |archive-date=October 1, 2009}}</ref>
* In September 2013, three men parachuted off the then-under-construction [[One World Trade Center]] in New York City. Footage of their jump was recorded using head cams and can be seen on YouTube.<ref>{{cite web |last=NYC B.A.S.E. Jump |date=24 March 2014 |title=NYC Freedom Tower B.A.S.E. Jump |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441bLA2KY50 |via=YouTube}}</ref> In March 2014, the three jumpers turned themselves in.<ref>{{cite web |title=Four men arrested in One World Trade Center jump stunt |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/25/justice/one-world-trade-center-jump-stunt/ |website=CNN |access-date=29 March 2014 |first=Haley |last=Draznin |date=26 March 2014}}</ref> They were sentenced to community service and a fine.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |date=10 August 2015 |title=World Trade Center parachutists fined $2,000 for jumping off building |language=en-GB |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/world-trade-center-base-jumpers-guilty |access-date=1 April 2023 |issn=}}</ref>