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Who is your BASE hero and why?

Me cos I´m awesome

Franz Reichelt. Because.

My buddy Tony... Because no matter how many tree landings he makes he still keeps on hucking away

The two Austrian guys Wolfgang Weitzenböck & Erich Felbermayer (1965 Tre Cimes/Cima Piccola, 1966 Rotwand) because they have jumped big walls in the Dolomites back in the mid´s of the sixties before even the acronym BASE didn´t exist !

There are a few:

-Jean-Marc Mouligné: He sold his house to follow his dream nobody believed in which was to build a human catapult. He pulled it off. Mad as a hatter.
-Julian Boule; he is just the best.
-Karl Hayden my mentor.
-Shane Mc Conkey.

... And many others

DUNNY because he is awesome...oh wait feral too hehehhehe

Slambo, just because it's opposite day.

All base heroes is dead, but still living legends

Green machine, he's invincible, I've seen it..

Whitney Houston

http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/Police-arrest-suspected-Astoria-Column-base-jumper/BHyW5KOwlkmOWf5SMy7uUg.cspx

Definitely not my Hero, but I think he is a hero in his own mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Fa1srgZuI

TOTALLY AWESOME!

Stinkydragon, because its opposite day today also!

Jean Marc Boivin, he jumperd off the Grand Capucin, one of my favorite cliff (in my dreams, obviously)

The Pick

Steve Morrell, BASE 174 and Phil Smith, BASE 1.

+1

HERO: "Fucking fantastic mate" (pause) "fantastic"

cameraman: "thank you"

HERO: "It's empowering.Yea!?" "It gives you power!"

HERO: "I'm going!"

One minute and fifty six seconds.

Good videoGREAT video

On a side note. I just noticed this. This picture pops up on the 'Home' page sometimes. Now look at the video above and look at two minutes and twenty one seconds. Attention to detail people!

Nice catch. I bet you're the guy that rewinds rented videos in the middle of watching them for the first time because you spotted a flaw in the production staging.
Good eye, good memory.

Jacques "Zoo" Malnuit
for his carrer and the James Bond Movie.

ANDY BECK,best base buddy there is!!!!taught me tons

Shane McConkey, he changed both skiing and base

BASE66 because he was a regular guy
who did something new/crazy/amazing
at a time when good gear/knowledge
was quite scarce.