Ive decided to give up " base jumping "

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Ive decided to give up " base jumping "

Translated:

March 8 Konakovo district of Tver region resident of Tomsk jumping with a parachute. In a terrible accident, he did not open, the young man fell to the ground from a great height. The tragedy occurred on a holiday. 28-year-old Ivan decided to try out new experiences and a parachute jump. For this purpose, he chose to support the power line near the village of Glinka Konakovo district, TIA reported in the press service of the Office of Emergency of Russia in the Tver region. Jump extreme sportsman made​​, but the parachute did not open. Man fell from a height of 150 meters, he was taken to the city Konakovo CRH in a very serious condition. How to tell the doctors, now a young man is in intensive care unit, he was conscious, but his condition is serious. From the hit man has received numerous injuries: concussion and brain contusion, fracture of the pelvis, spinal injury, contusion of the lung, gemopnevmotoraks (presence of air and blood in the pleural cavity).

Not a pleasent thing to watch IMO. Certainly don't fancy having a go myself...
 
Poor guy. He was bricking it and should have taken a moment to calm down. Under rotated and tried to open his chute whilst inverted. Lucky to have survived I've seen worse injuries from clean jumps.
 
Poor guy. He was bricking it and should have taken a moment to calm down.

I was thinking that as I was watching it, his hand was shaking so much and he kept hold of that rail - then a few times he looked like he was going to jump but didn't.

I didn't appreciate how high it was until the camera panned down.
 
When I've watched low level base jumps previously the drogue chute is nearly always in their hands ready to throw, or they run before jumping to inflate it, soo many things wrong about this jump. The person filming it didn't seem in a rush to sort out emergency response :eek:
 
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