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BASE jumper survives fall
A BASE jumper was injured but survived a fall of around 150 meters on Wednesday after his parachute failed to open as expected.
The base jumper threw himself off the edge of this cliff in the Norwegian mountains, and landed just off the road below.
Helicopter rescues base jumper - 28.06.2004
The 24-year-old man out BASE-jumping as a week of "extreme sports" activities took place in nearby Voss ended up a lucky, if injured, risk-taker after his jump went wrong.
When he threw himself off a mountain cliff at Skjervet in Voss Sunday afternoon, his parachute didn't unfold as it should have. He hurtled straight down towards the valley below.
He fortunately landed in a tree. That braced his fall and allowed him to emerge from the accident with only a broken foot. He was smiling as ambulance personnel drove him off to a hospital in Voss.
Frode Solbakk, head of security at the annual "Ekstremsportveko" in Voss, stressed that the 24-year-old's BASE jump wasn't part of the extreme sporting event's official program. He confirmed the accident, though, and called it a "classic" BASE-jumping accident.
"We don't know who the jumper is, and we don't organize BASE jumps from Skjervet any longer, because it's not a good place to jump from," Solbakk said. "This jump must have occurred at his own initiative."
Another BASE jumper said such accidents occur most often because the parachute was folded poorly, or if it's windy. BASE is an acronym that stands for jumps from buildings, antennae, spans (bridges) or earth.
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