Jesus(statue) is not a Virgin anymore!

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NOTE;
Before you give me crap about being sacreligious, note that the bible speaks of harsh penalties for Idol worship. This is only a statue, an Idol. No disrespect was intended nor acheived.

Probaly the most well known landmark in the world. Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro has been finally BASEd, the gnarlyism was almost unbelievable.I was the consultant and an eyewitness........
29 meters jump,with a a 90° right turn immediately
I was called in as a consultant to see if and how the jump was possible. I ruled.
PCA was the only possibility. Access was gnarly also. Stay tuned for the story w/fotos in Skydiving mag.

(I ain´t got no clue on how to post fotos anymore on this forum) give me time.
cya
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Yo !

Here you go:







bsbd!

Yuri.

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Lots of cool photos via the links you'll find here:

http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/b...12/brazil-jump

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"Daredevil jumps off Rio Christ in Bond-style stunt"

Updated 12:18 PM ET December 3, 1999

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Parachuter Atop Christ Statue on Corcovado Mountain in Rio De Janeiro (Reuters) more photos
By Jeremy Smith

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A thrill-seeking Austrian parachutist leaped from the outstretched hand of Rio's famed Christ statue this week in a dawn jump that he described as "spiritual," organizers of the daredevil stunt said Friday.

"As I was standing on the hand, no more than 20 centimeters (8 inches) wide, looking into the rising sun I realized that I would never feel anything like this in my life again," Felix Baumgartner, 30, said in a statement.

"This was real hard core and now I know why none of my colleagues has tried this before.... Apart from the extreme experience for the body balancing between life and death like that, this time the aura of the statue added a exceptional spiritual dimension," he said.

Baumgartner, who has performed similar jumps from high buildings around the world, managed to hide overnight in the security area at the base of the statue that is visited by hundreds of tourists every day.

Just before dawn Wednesday, Baumgartner fired a cable from a crossbow over the right arm of the 98-foot statue and climbed up to the outstretched hand. Before jumping, he left flowers on the giant's shoulder as a mark of respect.

Baumgartner, who trained on a crane for weeks at his Salzburg home before traveling to Brazil to make the James Bond-style jump, then opened his parachute and steered over shantytowns to a parking lot where a getaway car was waiting.

Police and administrators of the national park where the Christ statue is located were not immediately able to confirm the report.

"It was really early in the morning ... and we got out of the country the day after," said Stefan Aufschnaiter, organizer of Baumgartner's jump, speaking by telephone from Austria.

The fledgling sport, known as "base" jumping -- an acronym for "Building, Antenna, Span, Earth" -- involves parachuting off fixed structures or landmarks and has a reputation as a particularly thrilling, if risky, activity.

The parachute is only pulled open at the very last moment. Base jumping is illegal in most countries.

"It was the first time (for the Christ statue) and I think it's the last time. It's the lowest base jump in the world. Normally you need 50 or 60 meters (164 or 196 feet). It's extremely dangerous," Aufschnaiter told Reuters.

"(Baumgartner) is world champion, the craziest in the world and only had two and a half seconds from top to bottom. The parachute opened in the last possible second," he added.

A former mechanic and motocross driver, Baumgartner managed to sneak his base-jumping equipment through Brazilian customs by saying he was an archer traveling to a sports tournament.

He even carried a plastic bottle "in case of urgent needs" during his brief stay on the statue, the statement said.

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If you haven't checked out 281's links, please do. They are a great example of doing something well... even if it was an outlaw jump. It was a touchy location handled with respect and humility and technical precision, got reported as such -- and in the process created powerful images and inspiring words....

Beautiful job by Space and Felix and Red Bull.

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Congrats Felix and Space!!!! Very Impressive feat.

I look forward to getting back across the "pond" and jumpin' w/ you guys again ASAP!

Best wishes and stay safe!

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Saw the footage on CNN while at dinner Friday night.....this is a REAL CLASS ACT! CONGRATS!

Respectfully,

BASE476

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The post states that the jump was 29 meters. Is that 29 meters from the top of the head to the base, or from the arm that was jumped to where you would hit the ground on the base of the statue? Any clarification would help. Either way that is WAY HARDCORE!!!!

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From the exit pt to the light rack below,
thanks all for the compliments,
cya
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000.../4/wext04.html


Parachutist takes giant leap of faith

AN extreme sports fanatic scaled the 120ft statue of Christ the Redeemer on Brazil's Corcovado mountain yesterday and jumped from its outstretched arms.

For the first ever such leap, Felix Baumgartner, 30, an Austrian, smuggled his parachute on board the little train that takes dozens of tourists up the 2,000ft mountain to visit the statue. Once at the base of the Christ, he scaled the grey-stone figure, climbed on to one of its fingers and jumped.

A spokesman responsible for tourism at the Corcovado statue said: "We had advance warning that this crazy man might try to do something. Unfortunately, he managed to disguise himself as a tourist so we didn't see him until it was too late."

The illegal sport of base-jumping attracts fans who travel the globe looking for structures to jump from. Paul Landowski, the French sculptor, completed the Corcovado Christ in 1931 as part of Brazil's centenary independence celebrations.

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Congradulations to Felix and Space. A truly pionering jump.

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http://www.hardcore-sports.com

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Yuri,

Felix standing on Jesus' outstretched arm is certainly one of the best all time BASE photographs I have ever seen.

Squint your eyes a bit and you can see Jesus saying, "Oh Mary, come here and look at this. They took the thing I made them the most afraid of and turned it into a sport! Damn, I'm good . . ."

Nick
BR

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I have an observation for you all. All the pictures I have seen so far have the jumper on the right arm. Then I opened up the UK pictures articles and they had the jumper on the left arm. Take a look for yourself. I don't believe he posed on each arm for a phtot before the jump or did he?? What the deal with the photo on the left arm???

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What is up with the pictures showing him on both arms? ClimbtoDrop is totally right!!!! CONFUSED BSBD

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I haven't seen the photo myself, but probably the print is reversed. It only takes a hurried photo tech (trying to beat a deadline) to not look closely enough at the negative and place it in the enlarger with the emulsion side up instead of down. What you get then is a mirror image.

That's probably all it is.

Nick
BR