Jesus(statue) is not a Virgin anymore!

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NOTE;
Before you give me crap about being sacreligious, note that the bible speaks of harsh penalties for Idol worship. This is only a statue, an Idol. No disrespect was intended nor acheived.

Probaly the most well known landmark in the world. Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro has been finally BASEd, the gnarlyism was almost unbelievable.I was the consultant and an eyewitness........
29 meters jump,with a a 90° right turn immediately
I was called in as a consultant to see if and how the jump was possible. I ruled.
PCA was the only possibility. Access was gnarly also. Stay tuned for the story w/fotos in Skydiving mag.

(I ain´t got no clue on how to post fotos anymore on this forum) give me time.
cya
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Yo !

Here you go:

http://www.maxho.com/base/stil1c.jpg

http://www.maxho.com/base/jump5a.jpg

http://www.maxho.com/base/jump4a.jpg

bsbd!

Yuri.

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Lots of cool photos via the links you'll find here:

http://news.excite.com/photo/img/r/brazil/jump/19991203/rjo14?r=/photo/r/991203/12/brazil-jump

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"Daredevil jumps off Rio Christ in Bond-style stunt"

Updated 12:18 PM ET December 3, 1999

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Parachuter Atop Christ Statue on Corcovado Mountain in Rio De Janeiro (Reuters) more photos
By Jeremy Smith

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A thrill-seeking Austrian parachutist leaped from the outstretched hand of Rio's famed Christ statue this week in a dawn jump that he described as "spiritual," organizers of the daredevil stunt said Friday.

"As I was standing on the hand, no more than 20 centimeters (8 inches) wide, looking into the rising sun I realized that I would never feel anything like this in my life again," Felix Baumgartner, 30, said in a statement.

"This was real hard core and now I know why none of my colleagues has tried this before.... Apart from the extreme experience for the body balancing between life and death like that, this time the aura of the statue added a exceptional spiritual dimension," he said.

Baumgartner, who has performed similar jumps from high buildings around the world, managed to hide overnight in the security area at the base of the statue that is visited by hundreds of tourists every day.

Just before dawn Wednesday, Baumgartner fired a cable from a crossbow over the right arm of the 98-foot statue and climbed up to the outstretched hand. Before jumping, he left flowers on the giant's shoulder as a mark of respect.

Baumgartner, who trained on a crane for weeks at his Salzburg home before traveling to Brazil to make the James Bond-style jump, then opened his parachute and steered over shantytowns to a parking lot where a getaway car was waiting.

Police and administrators of the national park where the Christ statue is located were not immediately able to confirm the report.

"It was really early in the morning ... and we got out of the country the day after," said Stefan Aufschnaiter, organizer of Baumgartner's jump, speaking by telephone from Austria.

The fledgling sport, known as "base" jumping -- an acronym for "Building, Antenna, Span, Earth" -- involves parachuting off fixed structures or landmarks and has a reputation as a particularly thrilling, if risky, activity.

The parachute is only pulled open at the very last moment. Base jumping is illegal in most countries.

"It was the first time (for the Christ statue) and I think it's the last time. It's the lowest base jump in the world. Normally you need 50 or 60 meters (164 or 196 feet). It's extremely dangerous," Aufschnaiter told Reuters.

"(Baumgartner) is world champion, the craziest in the world and only had two and a half seconds from top to bottom. The parachute opened in the last possible second," he added.

A former mechanic and motocross driver, Baumgartner managed to sneak his base-jumping equipment through Brazilian customs by saying he was an archer traveling to a sports tournament.

He even carried a plastic bottle "in case of urgent needs" during his brief stay on the statue, the statement said.

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If you haven't checked out 281's links, please do. They are a great example of doing something well... even if it was an outlaw jump. It was a touchy location handled with respect and humility and technical precision, got reported as such -- and in the process created powerful images and inspiring words....

Beautiful job by Space and Felix and Red Bull.

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Congrats Felix and Space!!!! Very Impressive feat.

I look forward to getting back across the "pond" and jumpin' w/ you guys again ASAP!

Best wishes and stay safe!

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Saw the footage on CNN while at dinner Friday night.....this is a REAL CLASS ACT! CONGRATS!

Respectfully,

BASE476

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The post states that the jump was 29 meters. Is that 29 meters from the top of the head to the base, or from the arm that was jumped to where you would hit the ground on the base of the statue? Any clarification would help. Either way that is WAY HARDCORE!!!!

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From the exit pt to the light rack below,
thanks all for the compliments,
cya
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000546775551982&rtmo=pb3Ush1e&atmo=mmmmmmmR&pg=/et/99/12/4/wext04.html


Parachutist takes giant leap of faith

AN extreme sports fanatic scaled the 120ft statue of Christ the Redeemer on Brazil's Corcovado mountain yesterday and jumped from its outstretched arms.

For the first ever such leap, Felix Baumgartner, 30, an Austrian, smuggled his parachute on board the little train that takes dozens of tourists up the 2,000ft mountain to visit the statue. Once at the base of the Christ, he scaled the grey-stone figure, climbed on to one of its fingers and jumped.

A spokesman responsible for tourism at the Corcovado statue said: "We had advance warning that this crazy man might try to do something. Unfortunately, he managed to disguise himself as a tourist so we didn't see him until it was too late."

The illegal sport of base-jumping attracts fans who travel the globe looking for structures to jump from. Paul Landowski, the French sculptor, completed the Corcovado Christ in 1931 as part of Brazil's centenary independence celebrations.

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Congradulations to Felix and Space. A truly pionering jump.

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http://www.hardcore-sports.com

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Yuri,

Felix standing on Jesus' outstretched arm is certainly one of the best all time BASE photographs I have ever seen.

Squint your eyes a bit and you can see Jesus saying, "Oh Mary, come here and look at this. They took the thing I made them the most afraid of and turned it into a sport! Damn, I'm good . . ."

Nick
BR

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I have an observation for you all. All the pictures I have seen so far have the jumper on the right arm. Then I opened up the UK pictures articles and they had the jumper on the left arm. Take a look for yourself. I don't believe he posed on each arm for a phtot before the jump or did he?? What the deal with the photo on the left arm???

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What is up with the pictures showing him on both arms? ClimbtoDrop is totally right!!!! CONFUSED BSBD

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I haven't seen the photo myself, but probably the print is reversed. It only takes a hurried photo tech (trying to beat a deadline) to not look closely enough at the negative and place it in the enlarger with the emulsion side up instead of down. What you get then is a mirror image.

That's probably all it is.

Nick
BR

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Good call Nick. I think you're right also. I looked at the photo in the mirror and it is the right arm he is jumping off in the mirror. Thanks for the info Nick. Clears up some confusion.

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The negative was not flopped by accident but on purpose for composition purposes. The picture on the article I saw was on the right side of the page and compositionally, it looks dumb to have your subject looking off the page. The print media does this all the time, which is a problem when you do it to Cindy Crawford or an M-16 or other objects that are _not_ mirror images, but which goes unnoticed almost all the time by almost everybody. My favorite memory of neg swapping came with the obituary of a long-time family friend, who'd lost his left arm in a mining accident many years before. Well, all that time we'd known him and it turns out, according to the newspaper picture, that it was his _right_ arm that was missing and we were all apparently dyslexic for all those years.

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The link you included in your message doesn't work.

The right link is:

http://www.hardcore-sport.com

(without the "s" in sports...)

C-ya,
Robert

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You could be right. However, printing a negative emulsion side up should, I believe, never be used as a substitute for composition. Especially when documenting important events like the Jesus Jump. (There's history to consider). If the photo draws your eyes off the page in the wrong direction, there are creative ways around it, if you are creative enough.

Your family friend illustrates the point. If a hundred years from now someone sees that photo they will assume he did indeed lose his right arm, which could flaw any study on people who lose their arms in mining accidents. When a manufacturer of mining equipment modifies his equipment based on that study, we could lose whole slews of left arms based on bad data.

Geez, what kind of journalist are you . . . http://www.baselogic.com/forum/images/happy.gif

Anyway, welcome back.

Nick
BR

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After 15 years as a photo-journalist for a Philly suburb newspaper, all I can say is this:
If I had a nickel for every time one of my photos was flopped, I'd be rich.

In school, we were taught (more like drilled into our heads) that we are to record history accurately, not tamper with it. No "fudging", and under no circumstances EVER flop a photo to accommodate a poor page layout. FIX THE PAGE!

But in the real world, you just can't argue with an editor that's on a deadline. And, flopping wasn't the only thing. I can't even tell you how many times a ball was "moved" closer to the bat or the basket to make it fit the hole!! With advances in photo software, retouching is easier and better. It wouldn't surprise me if some tabloid moved Jesus' eyes to watch Space http://www.baselogic.com/forum/images/happy.gif

Then there are the ones who just don't know enough about their subject matter to know the difference. They're the really dangerous ones who have the power to change the course of history. They don't take page layout OR emulsion into consideration! (Wasn't it an argument over some flopped obituary photo in a German newspaper that started WWII??)

Speaking of knowing your subject matter, it kinda makes you wonder if there really are all those left-handed skydivers we've seen photos of over the years in "P-chuter". http://www.baselogic.com/forum/images/happy.gif

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What the hell is an "enlarger"???

Oh, yeah! NOW I remember! I had one once...
...back in the 80's (when we were switching to square canopies!)...
Does anybody really still use those??
I think I saw an old Bessler at a garage sale in Escondido a few years ago.
Reminded me of my first car: a '73 Chevy Impala I got when my older brother went off to college....
Ah, those were the days!
Damn, if that car could talk, there'd be movies to make!

Guess my age is showing too.