Some 450 BASE jumpers will jump off New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, on Saturday, October 18, as part of Bridge Day 2014, marking the 35th year of the annual celebration. BASE is an acronym that stands for these fixed points: building, antenna, span and earth.
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Some 450 BASE jumpers will jump off New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia, on Saturday, October 18, as part of Bridge Day 2014, marking the 35th year of the annual celebration. BASE is an acronym that stands for these fixed points: building, antenna, span and earth.
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At 876 feet high, New River Gorge Bridge is a BASE jumper's dream. Here Kenyon Salo initiated a flip from the bridge on Bridge Day 2003.
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At 876 feet high, New River Gorge Bridge is a BASE jumper's dream. Here Kenyon Salo initiated a flip from the bridge on Bridge Day 2003.
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BASE jumpers jump off fixed objects. Here a jumper leaped off a diving board on the bridge.
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BASE jumpers jump off fixed objects. Here a jumper leaped off a diving board on the bridge.
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BASE jumpers carry parachutes, like this one, designed to deploy quickly.
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BASE jumpers carry parachutes, like this one, designed to deploy quickly.
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Bridge Day is the only day of the year that jumpers can legally jump off the bridge. Here, four jumpers coordinated their free fall.
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Bridge Day is the only day of the year that jumpers can legally jump off the bridge. Here, four jumpers coordinated their free fall.
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About 80,000 spectators attended the Bridge Day festival in 2013 to watch the jumpers leap off the bridge and sail to the earth below.
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About 80,000 spectators attended the Bridge Day festival in 2013 to watch the jumpers leap off the bridge and sail to the earth below.
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The "Easter Pigs" jumpers perform a two-way jump at Bridge Day in 2004.
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The "Easter Pigs" jumpers perform a two-way jump at Bridge Day in 2004.
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A tandem BASE jump at Bridge Day allows an inexperienced passenger to be attached to an experienced BASE jumper.
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A tandem BASE jump at Bridge Day allows an inexperienced passenger to be attached to an experienced BASE jumper.
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These experienced jumpers show off their skills in a three-way BASE jump at Bridge Day in 2011.
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These experienced jumpers show off their skills in a three-way BASE jump at Bridge Day in 2011.
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Bridge Day introduced a human catapult system in 2012 to launch a smaller, select group of jumpers up and out from the bridge railing. These jumpers used it in 2013.
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Bridge Day introduced a human catapult system in 2012 to launch a smaller, select group of jumpers up and out from the bridge railing. These jumpers used it in 2013.
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