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•In 1965, Erich Felbermayr from Wels jumped from
the Kleine Zinne / Cima piccola di Lavaredo in the
Dolomites.
•In 1966, Michael Pelkey and Brian Schubert
jumped from El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley.
•On January 31, 1972, Rick Sylvester skied off
Yosemite Valley’s El Capitan, making the first
ski-BASE jump (he termed it a “ski/parachute jump”
since the acronym BASE had yet to be coined),
falling approximately halfway down, about 1500
feet, before deploying his Thunderbow chute. He
did this twice more, approximately two weeks later
and a year later.
•On November 9, 1975, the first person to parachute
off the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was
Bill Eustace, a member of the tower’s construction
crew. He was fired.
•In 1975, Owen J. Quinn parachuted from the south
tower of the World Trade Center to publicize the
plight of the poor.
•In 1976, Rick Sylvester skied off Canada’s Mount
Asgard for the ski chase sequence of the James
Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, giving the
wider world its first look at BASE jumping.
•On February 22, 1982, Wayne Allwood, an
Australian
skydiving
accuracy
champion,
parachuted from a helicopter over the Sydney
CBD and landed on the small top area of
Sydney’s
Centrepoint
Tower,
approximately
300 metres (980 ft) above the ground.
Upon landing, Allwood discarded and secured
his parachute, then used a full-sized reserve
parachute to BASE jump into Hyde Park
below. Video footage is also included in the
Australian Base Associations’ 2001 video
compilation, Fistful of F-111.
•In 1986, Welshman Eric Jones became the first
person to BASE jump from the Eiger.
•In 1987, Steve Dines (Australian) BASE 157 made
the first jump from the top of the Sydney Harbour
Bridge.
•In 1990, Russell Powell (British) BASE 230 illegally
jumped from the Whispering Gallery inside St Paul’s
Cathedral London. It was the lowest indoor BASE
jump in the world at 31.1 m.
•On May 6, 1991, John Vincent performs a base
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