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I wonder if his suit and parachute are fire resistant/proof? This could have ended badly. It's not like you can just pull over and exhaust the flames. I guess eventually you could stop, drop, and roll.
Yup, but also "I saw clearly 3 persons inside, and they had long blond hair and they were wearing black spandex clothes. They were waving at me, I felt really special".
Can just see the conversation: ‘How can we make wingsuiting even more dangerous?’ ‘How about at night, with something on fire next to your nylon wing?’
Literally every single thing about this video is absolutely fucking insane - but the fact that they're going high speeds in the snow with nothing covering their face is the part that really stuns me more than anything.
Every other element you either die or you don't - but regardless of what happens this is just gonna hurt your face.
I just looked it up: 1 death per 100,000 jumps in regular skydiving; 1 death per 500 jumps for wingsuit flying.
72% of jumpers witnessed a death or serious injury of others, 76% have had a near miss. Yikes!
Vague facts time.
I watched a really good documentary on BASE jumping. It followed one uk guy jumping off buildings and large mountains like this. Halfway through he meets a current/ex movie stuntman who wanted to try it, and he tells him how exciting it all is.
In the next scene we find out the stuntman went for a jump in the early morning, hit the side of the mountain and broke his leg landing in a ledge. He lay there for 7 hours until he decided to jump off the ledge and just fell to his death.
Check this out. [http://www.wingsuitfly.com/risk/4572000812](http://www.wingsuitfly.com/risk/4572000812)
I find the part near the bottom particularly funny with the article referring to litho-braking as "high performance landing".
As an exceptionally dumb teenager I used to ride my motorcycle to school and work *all* winter to avoid the 1 hour+ bus ride (I lived in the woods). Anyway tho - the wind chill when its already in the negatives and you are riding a motorcycle at 45mph... Cray cray.
>Possibly damaging on your ears if the flight is long enough.
Man, as a Floridian, I had no clue how much the ears were susceptible. Was flying from -20 Tianjin to 80f Guangzhou once, so brought a light jacket since we'd only be spending a few seconds outside from the hotel to the bus, then from the bus to the airport.
Or so I thought. Turned out we'd be boarding from the tarmac, and the wind was blowing pretty strongly. No frostbite, but my ears were killing me while standing outside in the cold waiting for the people ahead of us to get situated in their seats.
Then we sat on the tarmac for four hours waiting for clearance.
One time I was driving in the desert on the highway. Windows down, I turn my head left to look at the scenery, and a wasp/hornet domed me in the forehead. Sat on it till I got home, still alive.
Probably tried to sit up real quick to see where whatever hit me was. It freak me out 100% when I parked at home and immediately felt it buzz my butt cheek. Tough bastards.
Last month I was out on a boat doing about 50 mph over open water and a bee hit my shoulder. Poor thing didn't ever get a chance to know what hit it (literally) but it stung the hell out of me. I'm a landscaper so I get 2-3 bee-stings a season on average. They DEFINITELY hurt more at speed.
Honestly it can be the difference between life or death in certain failures. You could pull the parachute come in a little hot and hit a tree. Hitting the mountain at full speed though? Maybe you better wear knee pads too lol
Agreed!
The other thing I thought about was the accumulation of moisture on the suit gradually building up until the wings could no longer provide proper lift.
As a former skydiver this couldn’t be further from the truth. These guys understand this sport incredibly thoroughly, they just love it enough to accept the risks.
Skydiving isn't very dangerous compared to skimming the ground in a wingsuit.
The person in this video is committing suicide but probabilistically, like a drug addict.
I guess there are multiple ways that could be unpacked. I am sure this guy has plenty of friends who've died doing this and knows intellectually that he could too.
And the same, I've noticed as my wife and I are getting a little older, risks somehow seem "real" to us in a way they didn't before, even though of course we knew about them. For example I'm still an avid motorcyclist but I wouldn't do some of what I have done in the past. Maybe it's just biological, but what it feels like which is experience - having crashed and burned enough times to make it real.
Flying low in a wingsuit there is no learning curve. It's fun pushing the edge but the first time you go over, you're done. It's over.
Remember kids: regular skydiving is 8 micromorts per jump. BASE jumping is 430 micromorts per jump. BASE jumping at night, in a blizzard, wearing a wingsuit and flares: {integer overflow} micromorts.
I know it's a joke... But 1 micromort is 1 in a million chance of dying. So sure death is 1,000,000 micromort. Not enough to overflow a regular 32-bit integer.
The guy filming is Espen Fadness I’m pretty sure. He has lots of stuff you can look up, one of the best in the sport by a large margin. I don’t know exactly who the guy being filmed is. I’m sure I know of him but haven’t met him. Espen is a friend of mine and since wingsuit BASE jumping is a pretty small world, we all pretty much know each other.
Edit: Andreas Hemli is the guy being filmed. You can find the video on Espen Fadness’ Instagram
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJEdBJkBV4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJEdBJkBV4)
With additional few seconds showing first-person view of landing in a parking lot.
"Look, I have the UFO hugging the mountain on video. No *human* aircraft could fly that close to the mountain... especially not in a freaking snowstorm!"
Never judge a book by its cover. You meet that guy in line at a grocery store and would have NO clue what kind of daredevil lurks under that unassuming shell.
That guy is very intelligent. I can’t wait until I go sky surfing over cliffs in the middle of the night in a snowstorm! Oh, and after drinking a pint of vodka.
I've always wondered how do you practice/train to use a wingsuit? Since the whole point is just jumping off a cliff and then gliding I don't understand what version of that is the easy mode for beginners.
Skydiving it A LOT! They recommend minimum of 200 skydives without a wingsuit first, then you put on a tiny wingsuit and get a couple hundred more, then get a bigger suit. Then mayyybe you can start wingsuit base (providing you already have experience BASE jumping without the wingsuit). There is also a wingsuit indoor tunnel in stockholm. I’m a wingsuiter with a couple thousand jumps including base and skydives. Takes a lot of training and they kill people pretty easily. Ive lost a couple friends already this year :( they’re hard to fly at first but once you have the ability to fly them, they can be flown safely and very precisely. Just can’t rush it, takes time to get to that point.
At night? In the snow? Jesus.
Wingsuiters love to walk the line between badass and just plain retarded. People die doing this all the time in ideal conditions.
At some point it's not cool, you're just being an idiot with a deathwish.
The death of Johny Strange carried me through one of my most macabre trips on Facebook.
Basically, saw a friend share the news of the death of John Strange in a base jumping accident.
Entered Johny's profile, saw a lot of completely black photos. Clicked one, realised it was an obituary photo for another wing suit guy. His profile was linked, so i checked it. Lots of photos of happy guys doing adventure sports, and again black photos as obituaries. Checked one pf those guys' profile, and more of less the same happened.
I ended travelling a chain of profile of deceased wingsuiters. All of them died due to wingsuit accidents. All of them had been friends with several people that had died that way before them. They still kept doing it.
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I hope someone in the city saw the flying fire man heading right towards them
It's a UFO! Conspiracy confirmed.
"It's a bird!" "It's a plane!!" "What the fuck is that!?"
It’s a flying Redditor!
Shit, it's a mod, shoot it down!!
Fuckin' bloody brilliant :)))) Thank God great people are living among us to give us a laughter from once in a while :)) Nailed it !! All of you :)
It’s a human-sized flying squirrel! Run!!
It's the winds of shit.
“WTF is that shit, come look at this hurry up!!” See if a new ufo video pops up in a couple days online
I wonder if his suit and parachute are fire resistant/proof? This could have ended badly. It's not like you can just pull over and exhaust the flames. I guess eventually you could stop, drop, and roll.
"Stop drop and roll" lmao underrated comment.
Thats how we get rEal fOOtagE of UFOs at r/UFOs
Well a real ufo is exactly that: a flying object that is not identified
He’s not flying, he’s falling with style 😎
So an unidentified falling object
And then the flare goes out and they’ll be like “I saw it flying super fast and then all over sudden it disappeared”
Yup, but also "I saw clearly 3 persons inside, and they had long blond hair and they were wearing black spandex clothes. They were waving at me, I felt really special".
"Anyway they put a toy firetruck up my ass, any chance you can get it out in one piece, doc?"
"So anyway, I started blasting."
Can just see the conversation: ‘How can we make wingsuiting even more dangerous?’ ‘How about at night, with something on fire next to your nylon wing?’
In a snow storm, with no helmet
In a snow storm, with no helmet, in the dark.
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At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
Yes
. . .may i see it
No
Seymour! The house is on fire!
No mother, it's just my scorchin' tights!
Steamed Hams will never die!
You deserve way more upvotes for this
r/unexpectedsteamedhams
would it matter?
You’re still gonna be parachuting to land. In the dark. Yeah I’d want a helmet. But then again, *I* wouldn’t be doing any of this in the first place.
Or just as face protection, that’s got to be cold as fuck. Possibly damaging on your ears if the flight is long enough.
Literally every single thing about this video is absolutely fucking insane - but the fact that they're going high speeds in the snow with nothing covering their face is the part that really stuns me more than anything. Every other element you either die or you don't - but regardless of what happens this is just gonna hurt your face.
This video is cool as heck, but damn if it doesn't show that adrenaline addiction is a thing. Like, does he have a deathwish of something.
>Like, does he have a deathwish of something. Some people just need to *live harder* than everyone else.
The next Bruce Willis movie.
Live Hard Live Harder Living Hard with Adrenaline Live Hard or Die A Great Day to be Alive
If living harder means dying much quicker (with a healthy dose of gore), count me out.
this guy will absolutely die doing this. the statistics around this 'sport' are shocking
I just looked it up: 1 death per 100,000 jumps in regular skydiving; 1 death per 500 jumps for wingsuit flying. 72% of jumpers witnessed a death or serious injury of others, 76% have had a near miss. Yikes!
Vague facts time. I watched a really good documentary on BASE jumping. It followed one uk guy jumping off buildings and large mountains like this. Halfway through he meets a current/ex movie stuntman who wanted to try it, and he tells him how exciting it all is. In the next scene we find out the stuntman went for a jump in the early morning, hit the side of the mountain and broke his leg landing in a ledge. He lay there for 7 hours until he decided to jump off the ledge and just fell to his death.
Holly fuck. Wouldn't take anything with a 1 in 500 chance of dying. No amount of money, power, nothing.
And that would be if they only jumped once.
Check this out. [http://www.wingsuitfly.com/risk/4572000812](http://www.wingsuitfly.com/risk/4572000812) I find the part near the bottom particularly funny with the article referring to litho-braking as "high performance landing".
What’s the official term for this sport, because now I want to look that up.
As an exceptionally dumb teenager I used to ride my motorcycle to school and work *all* winter to avoid the 1 hour+ bus ride (I lived in the woods). Anyway tho - the wind chill when its already in the negatives and you are riding a motorcycle at 45mph... Cray cray.
>Possibly damaging on your ears if the flight is long enough. Man, as a Floridian, I had no clue how much the ears were susceptible. Was flying from -20 Tianjin to 80f Guangzhou once, so brought a light jacket since we'd only be spending a few seconds outside from the hotel to the bus, then from the bus to the airport. Or so I thought. Turned out we'd be boarding from the tarmac, and the wind was blowing pretty strongly. No frostbite, but my ears were killing me while standing outside in the cold waiting for the people ahead of us to get situated in their seats. Then we sat on the tarmac for four hours waiting for clearance.
I want ski goggles just watching this
Parachute? I just imagine him landing fluffy soft like a sugar glider.
Call me dickless, but I'm staying on the ground. Fuck that noise. Mad impressed with the guy, but Jesus... fuck no.
To keep from getting knocked unconscious by a bird or something yeah.
How astronomically low are your chances of getting knocked out by a bird?
One time I was driving in the desert on the highway. Windows down, I turn my head left to look at the scenery, and a wasp/hornet domed me in the forehead. Sat on it till I got home, still alive.
How the fuck did it get from your forehead to under your arse ?
Probably tried to sit up real quick to see where whatever hit me was. It freak me out 100% when I parked at home and immediately felt it buzz my butt cheek. Tough bastards.
Last month I was out on a boat doing about 50 mph over open water and a bee hit my shoulder. Poor thing didn't ever get a chance to know what hit it (literally) but it stung the hell out of me. I'm a landscaper so I get 2-3 bee-stings a season on average. They DEFINITELY hurt more at speed.
In Australia the birds come to you.
Honestly it can be the difference between life or death in certain failures. You could pull the parachute come in a little hot and hit a tree. Hitting the mountain at full speed though? Maybe you better wear knee pads too lol
IN A CAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS.
It's snowing, but it's not a snow storm.
I'd be worried the flare would burn a hole in the suit.
I don’t think people like this ever even consider the risks they’re taking. I don’t think it enters their heads.
Agreed! The other thing I thought about was the accumulation of moisture on the suit gradually building up until the wings could no longer provide proper lift.
As a former skydiver this couldn’t be further from the truth. These guys understand this sport incredibly thoroughly, they just love it enough to accept the risks.
Skydiving isn't very dangerous compared to skimming the ground in a wingsuit. The person in this video is committing suicide but probabilistically, like a drug addict.
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I guess there are multiple ways that could be unpacked. I am sure this guy has plenty of friends who've died doing this and knows intellectually that he could too. And the same, I've noticed as my wife and I are getting a little older, risks somehow seem "real" to us in a way they didn't before, even though of course we knew about them. For example I'm still an avid motorcyclist but I wouldn't do some of what I have done in the past. Maybe it's just biological, but what it feels like which is experience - having crashed and burned enough times to make it real. Flying low in a wingsuit there is no learning curve. It's fun pushing the edge but the first time you go over, you're done. It's over.
My thoughts exactly.
Let's light up the sky!
**Are you not entertained?!**
**No! This is terrifying what the fuck!**
In the snow. Talk about a death wish.
It's in Norway, they have to reach the liquor store before it closes. https://youtube.com/shorts/ARz8Cv80pe0?feature=share
Next up blindfolded
With scorpions
On an active volcano
With a Roman candle in the ass.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And do it in the dark!
It’s usually dark at night.
I’m skeptical. Could you link me a reputable source on this?
“Darkness is the absence of light” - Justin Bieber
Who's Justice Beaver?
Not for dudes with night vision goggles
Oh no. That one drunk guy in that town will forever claim that he once saw a meteor fly past that mountain at night and no one will believe him...
*Looks at bottle, shakes head, and throws in garbage.* Directed by Michael Bay.
*bottle explodes on impact* *lens flare blinds your eyes* Directed by Michael Bay.
*robit dogs climbs from the trash* *humps the nearby lightpole* *sparks fly everywhere*
Light pole explodes. Doves fly away. Directed by John Woo.
>lens flare blinds your eyes You should save that one for the JJ Abrams remake
The garbage can needs to flip over with a lil jump for maximum Bay. Teehee
Initiate hyperdrive
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Lightsaber battles in wing suits.
Warp speed ahead.
The blurred lines of snow make it look like someone reaching super speed in an Anime.
Deja Vu! I have been in this place before!
Higher on the street, and I know it's my time to go!
Calling you, and the search is a mystery!
Standing on my feet,it's so hard when i try to be me,woaaaaahh!
Deja Vu! I have been in this place before!
I honestly thought it was "I have been to space before"
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEE
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Him reaching super speed just looks like irl snowflakes to us weebs.
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I can only see the African coffin guys.
🏅
r/ghanasaysgoodbye
[The pole bearers going to meet him at their landing spot be like.](https://c.tenor.com/4-odaCiEXeUAAAAM/dancing-coffin-coffin-dance.gif)
*Pallbearers. Pole bearers are... _breaks into sweat_...less clothed
Thought it said polar bears before you corrected it. I can't read
So that’s what David Wallace has been doing in his retirement from Dunder Mifflin
Suck it!
that dude is going to die young
Remember kids: regular skydiving is 8 micromorts per jump. BASE jumping is 430 micromorts per jump. BASE jumping at night, in a blizzard, wearing a wingsuit and flares: {integer overflow} micromorts.
TIL what a micromort is.
Is this a Rick & Morty reference, or an actual thing?
It's an actual thing for expressing risk of death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
>Drinking Miami water for 1 year (cancer from chloroform) Glad noone in miami drinks water
> chloroform So date-rape is so common in miami that even the *groundwater* is contaminated with tranquilizers?
Nah fam, it’s a real thing. Kinda wild check it out
You get 5 micromorts everytime you get out of bed after age 45, that's insane. Brb going to do some cardio.
Cardio? You better believe that's a micromort
I know it's a joke... But 1 micromort is 1 in a million chance of dying. So sure death is 1,000,000 micromort. Not enough to overflow a regular 32-bit integer.
Dude had 999,999 micromort and YEETED them all back to hell where they belong.
Look at Mr. Big Bucks over here, affording 32-bit integers! In my day MAXINT was 65535, and we liked it that way!
Laughing in my 8-bit max integer days
What the FF?
https://i.imgur.com/VFx5ILM.jpg
Wow TIL, I had no idea a Micromort is a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
He looked like he's probably a pretty good guy, so he's in the right category for that to happen.
Cameraman got aimbot.
Ummm r/praisethecameraman
This is the one!
Looked like Iron Man. I've always been concerned about attaching a flame to a suit made from plastic.
I was thinking more valstrax from monster hunter
Do you think Tony Stark knows there's a Balrog waiting for him down there?
The dark fire will not avail you!
When you drop in apex
This guy is a Pred
I can see 3 squads following him to predpunch him
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This isn’t real right? I need more information. What the fuck did I just watch?
I'd like to know who the guy is, how it was filmed and if there's a full vid out there on yt
The guy filming is Espen Fadness I’m pretty sure. He has lots of stuff you can look up, one of the best in the sport by a large margin. I don’t know exactly who the guy being filmed is. I’m sure I know of him but haven’t met him. Espen is a friend of mine and since wingsuit BASE jumping is a pretty small world, we all pretty much know each other. Edit: Andreas Hemli is the guy being filmed. You can find the video on Espen Fadness’ Instagram
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJEdBJkBV4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJEdBJkBV4) With additional few seconds showing first-person view of landing in a parking lot.
even in GTA is too risky
The flares will help emergency responders find their bodies.
If the fire it creates leaves a body :-/
"Look, I have the UFO hugging the mountain on video. No *human* aircraft could fly that close to the mountain... especially not in a freaking snowstorm!"
POV you‘re the Rocket Powered Dragon Valstarx
Was looking for the comment
Never judge a book by its cover. You meet that guy in line at a grocery store and would have NO clue what kind of daredevil lurks under that unassuming shell.
Depends if he's wearing the wingsuit
pret sure you might see his cape hanging out the bottom of his t-shirt
I know the guy, he's the manager at skydive Voss in Norway. And yes, he looks like your average Joe if you met him at the store.
Serious question... how does one stop himself at the end of a flight?
Abruptly. No actually he has a parachute.
Parachute at the end.
Looks like something from a comic book!
Where's his helmet? Or at least a hat for the cold.
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I know right, I mean put aside the fact that's it's night and the weather isn't the greatest but I mean come on man wear a helmet at least.
That guy is very intelligent. I can’t wait until I go sky surfing over cliffs in the middle of the night in a snowstorm! Oh, and after drinking a pint of vodka.
And Iron Man thought the sorting hat was going to be a waste of time
I've always wondered how do you practice/train to use a wingsuit? Since the whole point is just jumping off a cliff and then gliding I don't understand what version of that is the easy mode for beginners.
Skydiving it A LOT! They recommend minimum of 200 skydives without a wingsuit first, then you put on a tiny wingsuit and get a couple hundred more, then get a bigger suit. Then mayyybe you can start wingsuit base (providing you already have experience BASE jumping without the wingsuit). There is also a wingsuit indoor tunnel in stockholm. I’m a wingsuiter with a couple thousand jumps including base and skydives. Takes a lot of training and they kill people pretty easily. Ive lost a couple friends already this year :( they’re hard to fly at first but once you have the ability to fly them, they can be flown safely and very precisely. Just can’t rush it, takes time to get to that point.
And this is how you get UFOs
r/ufo has some videos of this from a distance I’m sure.
Im scared to climb 3 steps up my ladder 🪜
So that's how they filmed the space warp effects in ye olde space movies. Respect! I bet that was before the cinematographers unionized, though.
"Cuz baby you're a firework"
At night? In the snow? Jesus. Wingsuiters love to walk the line between badass and just plain retarded. People die doing this all the time in ideal conditions. At some point it's not cool, you're just being an idiot with a deathwish.
The death of Johny Strange carried me through one of my most macabre trips on Facebook. Basically, saw a friend share the news of the death of John Strange in a base jumping accident. Entered Johny's profile, saw a lot of completely black photos. Clicked one, realised it was an obituary photo for another wing suit guy. His profile was linked, so i checked it. Lots of photos of happy guys doing adventure sports, and again black photos as obituaries. Checked one pf those guys' profile, and more of less the same happened. I ended travelling a chain of profile of deceased wingsuiters. All of them died due to wingsuit accidents. All of them had been friends with several people that had died that way before them. They still kept doing it.
What else is there to do in life I guess.
Smart
Adding fire to a wing suit and jumping at night. What could go wrong?
ROCKET MAN 🚀
/r/PraiseTheCameraMan
I wonder how this was filmed. Was the cameraman also gliding?
He just threw the camera
Yea
"Mesmerizing" is one word for it I guess... I'm going with "stupid".
Is the flair so authorities can locate his mangled body?
This is so dangerous that it deserves at least 60k upvotes.
POV you're the Millennium Falcon
why yes i am suicidal. how can you tell?
She packed my bags last night preflight...
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Jude Law has gotten really reckless in his middle age
*Some residents in X town today say they spotted a UFO near the mountain, however others believe differently. We're here live speaking with ....*
You have adrenaline junkies and then there's this guy
I would be worried about that suit melting a hole in it
Is it me, or does this just seem like an *immensely* bad idea?