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Hi all Happy new year hope all are well!

I was just after some info on any good/intresting BASE or Skydive books, I have ordered BASE66 off Amazon and know about Groundrush & Douggs Confes of idiot....Is there any more anyone could recommend that i could look up ??

Thanks in advance guys n gals!

Endless Fall BASE 66 Confessions of an Idiot

Free Fall by Tom Read

The book is out of print, when you can find a copy I suggest you snatch it up. I received it as a gift from a Base jumper/friend and highly recommend it to everyone who has also read Groundrush, BASE66 and Confessions of an Idiot.

A well crafted story in the words of an amazing individual who lead a full life of adventure and tragedy; you won't soon forget him after turning the last page.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/...m-Read/dp/0316643033

http://www.alibris.com/...452791/used/Freefall

not base related, but The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz is the best book ever written.

Agreed that The Long Walk is a great book and should be on the reading list of any interested in adventure related tales. Assume anyone on this site.

The only troubling thing is the mystery surrounding the actual author experiences as described via Google.

Anything by Brian Germain is always good!

hmm.. i just read up on the subject you present. I tend to believe Rawicz. but what do I know?

nothing to do with BASE again but "Touching The Void" is pretty cool.

Great, now I have that stupid Boney M song stuck in my head...

I really liked these 2 books:

When the Chute Went Up - which talks about Dolly Shepherd who jumped from smoke balloons from parachutes holding onto a trapeze bar. She performed the first mid-air rescue of another jumper.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Chute-Went-Adventures-Parachutist/dp/1874180024

The Yorkshire Birdman - Harry Ward was a British man and one of the very few to survive an era of early wingsuit parachuting. He went on to train the early airbourne troops and from this came skydiving and BASE jumping.
http://www.gargrave.org.uk/birdman.htm

In the same vein, 'Out of the Ice' by Victor Herman, with the difference that Victor is an american lad from Detroit, whose father relocated his family to Russia along with about 300 other families after Henry Ford sold an out-dated factory to the Russkies. Victor decided to stay after the 3-year contract and became a cadet in the Russian army, learning to fly and also to skydive. In the 30's he set an altitude record for the longest freefall, however when the Russian's wanted to release the news to the world he wouldn't agree to claiming to be a russian, but wanted to use his own name and citizenship, for which he was sentenced to Siberia. His experiences in Siberia were quite horrific.

It's mostly NOT BASE, but there's some: Gorilla Monsoon.

I've always enjoyed Krakauer's stuff
"Into thin air"
and "Eiger dreams" both great books.

Mostly climbing, but I really enjoyed "Kiss or Kill: Confessions of A Serial Climber" by Mark Twight.

Fall of The Phantom Lord by Andrew Todhunter. Covers Dan Osman both climbing and rope freefalls.