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"Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/...-yosemite-base-jump/

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YOSEMITE (CBS SF) – A pair of friends climbing Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome captured a stunning moment as they neared the summit – a sunrise base jump.

The television show Right This Minute reports that Brian Santilena and Jim Redo undertook a three day face climb of Half Dome to raise money for Wounded Warriors. As they neared the jutting “diving board” feature at the top of the face, two men – wearing winged suits – leaped off. Brian talked to the show about the adrenaline rush of seeing the jump.
“At first we thought that someone had just jumped off. We thought it was the end for them,” said Santilena. “It looked like a squirrel flying at us until they flattened out.”
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Re: [cpoxon] "Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
website designer should be shot.
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Re: [cpoxon] "Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
Remarkable!
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Re: [cpoxon] "Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
I was surprised how upbeat the reporter was.
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Re: [zoobrothertom] "Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
i wonder why people make such a big deal out of this. a big enough deal to contact a show and try to get their footage shown on national TV. im impartial, as no matter what youre going to come across climbers in this park, but it just seems like this guy was desperate to get on television so he came forward with this lame, half assed footage.
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Re: [TransientCW] "Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
People love to see this!!! It gets them very excited Wink We have many visitors that love to watch the flying humans Wink
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Re: [Dunny] "Half Dome Climbers Capture Unique Perspective On Yosemite Base Jump"
And pretty soon, the climbers will be the ones fined for filming it ;)