http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/base-jumping-incredible-photos.html#more-2401
Building Antena Span Earth

That’s what the acronym B.A.S.E stands for. This 
incredible sport is derived out of sky-diving and 
it looks a lot harder too. BASE jumpers have to make 
use of their wingsuits and be very careful at 
their body-attitude so they don’t start tumbling. 
The parachute is only opened at the last second 
which makes the adrenalin rush even more powerful.

Valeri Rozov, one of the world’s most talented 
BASE jumpers made a jump from the Alps “Grandes 
Jorasses“, a place experts had deemed impossible 
for a free-fall, but he proved anything is possible.


http://www.summitpost.org/grandes-jorasses/150262
SummitPost.org
Type: Mountain/Rock
Location: Valle D'Aosta / Haute Savoie, France/Italy, Europe
Lat/Lon: 45.86670°N / 6.98330°E
County: Italy / France
Elevation: 13806 ft / 4208 m


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_Jorasses
Wikipedia
The Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m; 13,806 ft) is a mountain 
in the Mont Blanc massif.

The first ascent of the highest peak of the mountain 
(Pointe Walker) was by Horace Walker with guides 
Melchior Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Julien Grange 
on 30 June 1868. The second-highest peak on the 
mountain (Pointe Whymper, 4,184 m; 13,727 ft) 
was first climbed by Edward Whymper, Christian 
Almer, Michel Croz and Franz Biner on June 24, 
1865, using what has become the normal route of 
ascent and the one followed by Walker's party 
in 1868.

Located on the French side of the mountain, the 
north face is one of the six great north faces 
of the Alps. One of the most famous walls in the 
Alps, it towers 1200 m (3,900 ft) above the 
Leschaux Glacier, stretching 1 km from end to 
end. The classic route on the face is the 
Walker Spur (Cassin/Esposito/Tizzoni, 1938, 
TD+/ED1, IV, 5c/6a, A1, 1200 m) which leads 
directly to the summit of Pointe Walker. The 
other major buttress on the mountain is the 
Croz Spur, which leads to the summit of Pointe 
Croz. In her solo ascents of the six north faces, 
Alison Hargreaves chose this route in preference 
to the Walker Spur.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaHHN5AiExE
YouTube
He has even jumped from a plane into a volcano (video)



(MountEverest.net) “Nobody believes it, but we 
did it,” Russian X-gamer Valeri Rozov declared 
earlier this month, shortly after making the 
first BASE-jump from the Alps' Grandes Jorasses. 
The news were stirring for sure: The Jorasses 
had been deemed impossible; experts said the 
huge wall lacked a single spot safe enough to 
launch a free-fall jump. But here they are, 
the breath-taking images of the jump that 
followed a climb on one of the face’s 
hardest routes: The Croz Spur. The 50-second...





http://sklon.ru/index.php?p=world-news&m=menu1&l=en&view=7494
Top Sport Travel web site
(MountEverest.net) “Nobody believes it, but we did it,” 
Russian X-gamer Valery Rozov, 41, is something else for 
sure. Last year, he made the first BASE-jump from the 
Alps' Grandes Jorasses, after experts said the huge 
wall lacked a single spot safe enough to launch a 
free-fall jump. But then the breath-taking images 
arrived, of the jump that followed a climb on one 
of the face’s hardest routes: The Croz Spur.

“This first BASE jump from the Grandess Jorasses 
has been both meritable and pleasant,” was Rozov's 
crisp comment after the Grandes Jorasses jump. For 
four days, he led fellow Russian climbers Denis 
Provalov, Maxim Malanchuk, and Dimitry Lifanov up 
the Croz Spur on the wall. Then he jumped.

The Russian climber and BASE jumper exited the 
wall at 3800m, from the central buttress of the 
spur, right by the northeast face. Wearing a 
wing-suit, Valery took advantage of a 230-250 
meters clean vertical section just below the 
jump-off spot. The jump saved a total of 1200 
meters – Rozov free-fell for 50 seconds before 
opening the parachute.

“I almost crashed a hut,” he laughed after landing.

'Fortune favors the bold' the saying goes and it 
proved true in Valeri’s case: He jumped in beautiful 
weather conditions. The rest of the team instead, 
were caught in a storm on their two-day descent. 


The Croz Spur is one of the classic routes on the 
north face of the Grandes Jorasses (Mont Blanc 
Massif, French Alps). It was first climbed by 
Meier and Peters in 1935. The 1000 meters-long 
route is ranked as TD+/ED1 (very difficult+/Extremely 
difficult) in the European alpine scale. There 
are several variations and starting points to 
the original route.