You’re not usually supposed to let go of the Death Swing, the clifftop rope swing installed in a secret location in Australia’s Blue Mountains National Park. Most visitors harness themselves to the rope before taking the leap.
Last month, Sydney daredevil Lucky Chance became the first person to do otherwise when he used the swing to launch into a monster, somersaulting BASE jump. The leap was caught on video, and it went online last week.
While the jump succeeded, Chance says that it didn’t go as smoothly as the video might make it seem.
“On the day of the video it was atrocious conditions, really windy,” Chance told ninemsn. “I hit the ground pretty hard and thrashed my hands and ankles.”
BASE jumping and the Death Swing are both banned in the park. We can only speculate how park officials feel about combining the two.
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Photographer Josh Caple shot another one of Chance’s Death Swing BASE jumps. You can find the pictures on his blog.
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Woah! Watching that is like seeing the fine line between very brave and very stupid being crossed. Need to find some videos of how you get off the Death Swing besides “base jumping” from it, cause I don’t think that would be much fun either.
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I love this stuff. Have you seen the 2010 Radical Reels trailer? You might like it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py9g1cAU5jM
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Great video!
I love the idea that even though it’s very scary the base jumper has to maintain composure or else he realy will get hurt. Keeping it together while being very scared is as good as it gets.
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Hi! Just in the interest of accurate reportage, I did not film that. I wasn’t even there on that day! The day I was there, he did it with far more style and an extra 3 backsaults before pulling!
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Thanks for the clarification, Josh. It’s too bad that the leap he did that day hasn’t appeared on video – that sounds like it was killer.
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