That's some triple jump! Beautiful pictures of three daredevil basejumpers leaping off 2,000ft snow-capped peak in the Canadian wastes

By Nick Enoch

Leaping from the edge of the world never looked more beautiful for these three base jumpers.

The daredevils were caught on camera by 28-year-old photographer Matt Irving, from Idaho, as they plummeted 2,000ft into the icy depths of the breathtaking Sam Ford Fjord - a meeting of two fjords high in the Arctic circle in Canada.

The jumpers, JT Holmes, 32, Jesse Hall, 30 and Tim Dutton, 26, had expected a helicopter to take them up to the top of 'The Beak' - a rock wall twisting into the sky from sea level - where they would jump.

Base jumpers JT Holmes, Tim Dutton and Jesse Hall leap off 'The Beak' rock wall on the Sam Ford Fjord, a 2,000ft cliff in Canada



The trio leapt together from the overhanging face on Baffin island, Nunavut, in the Arctic Circle







The jumpers were in free-fall for 11 seconds before deploying their parachutes and floating to the sea's frozen surface


But the harsh northerly weather in Baffin Island, Nunavut, forced them to hike instead, trudging through waist-high snow to the top.

As if that wasn't enough excitement, the trio then leapt together from the peak - free-falling for 11 seconds before deploying their parachutes and floating to the frozen surface of the sea.

'Why did we jump three at a time?' Holmes said. 'It's way more fun. It's cool to see your friends falling and it provides more reference than just seeing the wall rush by.'
Without a harness or rope holding him down, Irving positioned himself on a dining room table-sized cliff edge to get the perfect shot of the fall.

Base jumpers (l to r) Jesse Hall, Tim Dutton, and JT Holmes near the summit before their death-defying leap


Without a harness or rope holding him down, photographer Matt Irving positioned himself on a dining room table-sized cliff edge to get the perfect shot of the fall





The remote location is only accessible by several plane rides and an eight-hour journey in a sled pulled by a snowmobile

THE BASICS OF BASE JUMPING

Basejumping is an extreme sport in which daredevils leap from a fixed pointbefore using a parachute at the last minute to break their fall.

Theword 'Base' is an acronym of the four bases from which they can leap: buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs).


'Definitely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been,' he said.
The crew set up camp on the stunning frozen fjord under extreme weather conditions.

Base jumper Hall built a wall of packed snow to protect the crew's tents from the wind.

The remote location is only accessible by several plane rides and an eight-hour journey in a sled pulled by a snowmobile.

'There's quite a bit of travelling involved,' added Irving.

'It's not smooth at all and, by the end, my back was killing me.'
The photographer has filmed several base jump expeditions, with this latest leap recorded on video camera for Pirelli Tyres.



'Why jump three at a time?' Holmes said. 'It's way more fun. It's cool to see your friends falling and it provides more reference than just seeing the wall rush by'