BASE stunt in Norway goes wrong

This is hard to watch. Though the BASE jumper survives.

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The original video has more detail.

… BASE jumper Richard Henriksen … a father-of-five, then flies off the cliff head-first as onlookers watch in horror. …

In an extremely lucky chain of events, Henriksen narrowly missed falling against the rock face of the cliff and managed to open his parachute on the way down, NRK TV reports. …

Henriksen, who works as a surgeon at St. Olav’s Hospital, said he had operated on some of his closest friends who had been in BASE jumping accidents. …

Obviously they should not have chained that Bar with only 4 points of attachment. I’d have used 8 minimum.

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(via Jason Edward MacDonald on Facebook)

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