No matter what you think of him or the people who wingsuit, you can't deny they are the embodiment of human courage and curiosity. For thousands of years people have been dreaming of doing exactly this and it should be celebrated.
Nuh, I think they are all idiots. Whenever I see that one of these losers has face-planted I think "wow, that guy was fucking stupid, should have found a different hobby".
jkfdkjjd Disagree. I believe that it's better to die an idiot than to do nothing meaningful in life. ←Quote goes something like that but it sure makes you look at life differently.
I hope this maniac realizes that the air density at the top of Everest is going to make a face plant highly likely. Everest is twice the height of the Matterhorn.
He's a professional mountain climber. It's 100% certain that he's entirely aware of the thinning atmosphere at higher altitudes, because it's a fundamental part of his job to know.
choronos I guess we will find out. It's an easy mistake to overlook. I can tell you his practice jump they show wasn't at 29,000 feet, that's for sure. It's a whole different ball game at that altitude.
suedeslounge damn you should tell him that before he jumps, he probably doesn't even know what he's in for. You need to find him and inform him of all of your aerospace expertise.
Holy Shit! I thought this stuff was dangerous but 16 people would be considered an epidemic of dying. He may be the first base jumping serial killer lol
I don't believe he holds the the speed record for Everest, a Sherpa went base camp to summit in just over 8 hours with oxygen, 20 hours without. The solo summits is an insane achievement - I'd be keen to know if he used the lines fixed on the mountain by the Sherpas at the start of the season and if he had stores placed at the camps on the way up.
clive ramsbotty Sherpa Pemba Dorje still holds the record for fastest ascent with oxygen from Everest South Base Camp at 8 hours and 10 mins, which he did in 2004. Ogwyn used oxygen also but his world record ascent seems to have been from the North Side in 2008. Though, looks like Discovery Channel has it incorrect on their own web page by saying, "In 2008, Joby set the world record for the fastest ascent of Mt. Everest, climbing from the base of the SOUTH side route to the summit in just nine and a half hours."
Very good points being made here... There is sort of an unofficial divide between the records set by Sherpas and those who aren't Sherpa. Also mentioned above you can climb Everest from the North side to circumvent some ofthe dangers and logistical challenges associated with cromming the Khumbu icefall on the south route. Regardless of whether or not you go for an alpine ascent or a more staggered operation you will still almost inevitably have to rely on the fixed lines and ladders fitted to the route by the Sherpas at the start of the season. The siege style of ascent helps with acclimatisation - you go to camp 1, come back to base, go to camp 2, back to camp 1, all the while ferrying supplies such as oxygen tanks, equipment etc. But either way you are very unlikely to be carried down or rescued once above 8,000 metres, regardless of the size of your budget and operation. Base camp to Summit in 8 hours is absolutely fucking mental, those Sherpas do some superhuman shit on Chomolungma, guys have done it twice in one week, 20+ times, without supllpemental oxygen, this year two guys did the triple crown in one go... Bonkers.
***** Yeah it's mad shit. To do that though it needs to be your lifes work and you need a long genetic history of adaptation for high altitude over several hundred years. It's a nice idea to muse on that climbers will start treating it as a sporting summit but at the moment it's just too difficult and too dangerous... Above 8,000m you are quite literally dying - your lungs and brain fill with liquid - it's a blast up to the top and back before death gets you. There are a bunch of dead bodies on the mountain you have to walk past. Just getting to base camp requires huge fitness, reaching the summit is akin to an ultra marathon, an olympic gold, a player of the year award... You are so right when you say you can't make sense of it! Climbers already take roids for the altitude sickness, dexamethazone. Fascinating right!?
Also did you not catch his comment " this footage is so old the guy who shot it is dead now" and then " he was my best friend and we lost him last June". You know your in a club with a short life expectancy when people are thinking they lost their friend along time ago and it was last year! lol
Myassassin- I appreciate your comment because I am starting my own channel in order to have discussions about key news events within a couple of weeks, and how we use language is very important to the massage we are trying to communicate. I want you to think again at what I meant when I used the example I made, because while you may be right and I want your thoughts, I believe you missed the subtle point I was making. At 5.46/ he says ," it's weird, cause this footage is so old that the guy who shot the footage who is flying with me is dead now, died ya,there he is,there's the man,,,,we lost Jeff last June" My comment is an attempt to point out, that in the mind of the narrator, last June or 2 years ago is a LONG time. You are correct when you say it is his friend's death that took place within a year and the footage was shot sometime in the past, but what the narrator uses, ie the time period of his friends death, hardly gives his audience a perspective on what is old footage. For instance if you knew my dad was 80, and we are watching a documentary on Desert Storm, during the Iraq conflict under the first president Bush, and I say, "wow my dad had not even retired when this footage was made", you instantly have a reference point for a time period in mind, since you have an idea of what age most people retire. My point here is not to poke fun at a fascinating and thrilling VICE story (as they almost always are) but to make anyone paying close attention realize- HOLY SHIT THIS GUY IS USING A REFERENCE THAT COULD BE AS LITTLE AS A YEAR AGO, TO EXPLAIN TO THE VIEWER, THAT IS A LONG TIME IN THE SPORT OF FLYING WITHOUT BEING A BIRD,LOL. Had I even a 1% interest in trying my hand at this,- aw hobby? you can bet the idea left at the speed of light when he said that. ( and notice, you instantly get the speed of light, as really fast) Your thoughts on my explanation are important, because I want my channel to ad value to discussions. what people say and how they act seem to be out of touch in today's society. As an example take private prisons for profit and the way they influence the US criminal system with regard to minorities. ( I am not a minority and while stating that should be irrelevant any objective person knows it is not) If you are the CEO of Insys which is the main company involved in Fentanal, and you deliberately engage in medicare fraud to boost wall street stock prices, chances are you already know, that no one from your company,including you, will see a day in prison even though the companies fraud was directly responsible for numerous people dying. However, had you got caught selling an once of weed in a state with mandatory sentences, it could have resulted in life behind bars even though no one died from what you did.What's worse is (correct me if I am wrong) there are instances where weed is know decriminalized in states where people have been and continue to be in prison for seemingly petty offences. Theses two things are out of line with what decent, intelligent people would classify as justice, but will continue, until US citizens make whatever Government is sitting change it. Thanks for reading
i believe people should be allowed do what ever they want however dangerous as long as they are not physically harming others. a ridiculous amount of people die in car crashes a year but nobody wants to stop that.
i lost 7 friends to heroin in 2 months...so nah not worse right up to par id say..but seriously the guys a good guy he should just let it go....his son and family and friends are counting on him to stay alive to it really will be worth somehting in the end...lesson learned has gotta be lesson learned
hatacunz you don't shoot heroin literally every minute of every day or wingsuit jump every minute either. The problems for everyone around either type is that as long as they are actively doing either of these activities, it's possible that their next use/jump could be their last. I just don't find wingsuit jumping to be anywhere near as mentally damaging or incapacitating.
Thanks FE NG, it was totally meant as a joke and I take no offence at Jose's joke as well! People everywhere just want to be able to make enough to not be stressed all the time and have family or friends that matter.
Bjorlam they died doing something they love, better then old and in a hospital slowly, painfully, that would be so quick from speed and impact, unless your chute didnt fall you would just be really afraid the first half, then maybe youd accept it
Bjorlam I like those odds! +LittleRainGames, That's complete shite, not to be uttered by anyone who has not nearly died doing something they later decided would've been worth dying for. Those seven people took that chance thinking they'd beat the odds. And will you actually tell me that at that last moment before their demise they felt no regret? Get real. Their actual responses were more like, "fuck, I fucked up. I'm sorry Mom". The only people who have any business doing this kind of stuff are literal superhumans, as well as those few schmucks who really deserve Darwin awards. There have been far too many decent yet foolhardy risk-takers who've broken the hearts of far too many friends and family members. People, don't try this daredevil shit unless there's no one who cares about you, or unless you're fucking Neo or Superman. You *might* be that good, but with these odds, you're better off never knowing.
what a load of bullshit. splatting into a mountain in the middle of your life is shit - not to mention the impact on your friends. getting old is part of life - by your logic we should all just jump off buildings and kill ourselves rather than get old
This guy is obviously an attention seeker. There are lots of BASE jumpers who don't surround themselves with cameras and journalists. Additional evidence: the false modesty when he says that flying 5 to 10 feet from the wall is "not really close".
Idk people who wanted to kill them self, maybe people who got to the top but know they are going to die on the way down, so they took the short way.It is not totally unreasonable to say some one has done it before, just climbing the mountain is near suicidal. The guy is going to be the first to jump in a *wing* suit. Valery Rozovo has already jumped off Everest in the highest base jump in the world.
So he is doing his longest jump in memorium. We pay millions to guys running across a field with a ball between their legs while humble guys like this get paid pennies (relatively) and risk their lives just to take our breath away. Kudos and best of luck to this champ and his family.
that is with an entire team, this guy did it all by himself. Obviously he had done a ton of research and probably still spend a lot of money on equipment but besides that there is noone you pay. Although im not sure how that works with o2 etc maybe he had some help.
Ever heard of speed climbing? Most have not as there is few people like the late Dan Osman that try to go up mountains in ten min's that usually take hours. He also talked about his daughter being important and intended to take a long break, but after doing a 1000 foot dive with just ropes for Guinness, he decided to do it one more time before packing up the ropes and just kept on going to the bottom. TH-cam has a lot of his crazy footage .
I got into supersports because I always wanted to fly fighter jets, the feeling of flying through corners at high speeds is unlike anything, I’ve been on a tandem jump but a wing suit flight is on my bucket list
Sorry for the loss of your friend. L Lawdy I hope your wingsuiting technique has improved in the last 7 years :). That is some scary inefficient dihedral flight and slammer full flight deployments ouch!
I think this would be awesome. Ive been skydiving about 8 times and was about to try hang gliding but broke my back I still did a lot but without my legs there's no way to super squirrel. Even to jump now paralyzed I have to go tandem
Holy shit just flying down the mountain like that must feel euphoric, that's such a beautiful sight... SUCH FREEDOM ahh I'm jealous... I wouldn't have the guts to do it, but flying through a sky with mountains like that sounds like a dream come true
man, what an inspiration u are !! after the Mike Tyson HotBox pod, it really shows ehat kinda person u are! a real, and great humble human being! all the best to u and yours, Joby, one love from Norway
Not sure about Everest, it would be very hard to get enough wind resistance to push away from the face at that altitude, but K2 would be perfect. It's pretty much vertical most of the way.
I wouldn't call it tragic, like what the fuck do you expect to happen when you jump out of a plane or off a cliff in a wing suit? Or climb a dangerous mountain? Obviously people are going to die... hard to feel bad for people that die from something so stupid. Tragedy is when something horrible happens to someone that was not their fault. Those guys basically already died for nothing.
5:00 You are already going as fast as the plane as soon as you exit- momentum conservation Personal source- I yelled for those 2 seconds jumping out of an airplane the first time when I was 12. It's gnarly.
a very very special man Joby Ogwyn... thank you brother for inspiring us. And don't forget its not your fault for the lives of those people.... everyone individually chose their path, and sometimes God wants you back, soon than you think. We forget we can go away today.... or tomorrow... we think we are here forever... im sorry.. no... life is to short... Wake up and Live !!!!
I hate to be that guy, and trying to set a world's first/world record does slightly change things, but Climbing Mt. Everest has always been most dangerous for the Sherpas that are hired by westerners (Like Joby). The Sherpas do 95% of the work, going ahead and setting the camps, ropes, and ladders for their clients. This was very much known and understood for people like Joby, and has only become more obvious the last couple of years. Also, the amount of trash, and dead bodies that are stacking up creates another problem. The mountain is often overcrowded due to the overwhelming amount of rich Americans and Europeans that essentially pay to have the mountain climbed for them. I understand this is an achievement, but painting this guy as a total hero is kind of crazy to me.
Good luck friend! But youre gonna be the second, 2 himalayan sherpas already did it and they kayaked all the way down to the indian ocean, still i wish you all the best and will be waiting for a vieo of that trip 🤙🏽🤙🏽
His drop will be big I'd imagine before catching minimum glide scope with the thin air compared to other bases usually jumped from much lower spots. He will be halling ass before he can turn upward to slow down. Should be a wild but very dangerous ride.
These guys DO have a deathwise. If you've had just about every best friend die from jumping wingsuit, and you still do it, you are asking and possibly expecting to die....plain and simple...
“Once I had a kid I wanted to see him grow up” also “ well I can’t let these people who died because I wanted the ultimate rush, let’s still put my life in mortal danger again and again …”
with morbidity and mortality rate like that, despite being fully aware of it, he goes and does it anyway, while attempting to reason for the justification, is diagnostic of behavioral health problems, like substance abuse, only his drug of choice is from an endogenous source.
There were 2 guys that were the first to ditch Mt Everest but one man had more higher ditch from space. There are probably more people making videos of ditching Mt Everest.
Too bad, because he's not going to be the first person to jump off of Everest. Sanobabu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tshiri Sherpa paraglided off the summit in 2011... and then kayaked to the Indian Ocean.
You just made it 10 times harder now with the baby. Dont fuck it up dude, baby = fear and possible regret, I'm speaking from experience as a HG pilot with a few mishaps. Good luck
too late you have been beaten to it fella. a French guy did a wingsuit jump off of the top and two Nepalis para-sailed off of the summit and flew to Tengboche before jumping into kayaks and riding the rapids to the Ganges then paddling it to the bay of Bengal.
Can someone who actually knows what they're talking about explain how his fellow wingsuit base jumper friends die when they perform their jumps? Obviously it has something to do with a parachute malfunction. Is this caused due to their speed or angles? How exactly are these mistakes happening?
What the, This guy did this 5 years ago. So why is this published now, as news? This is history, not news. Big news: Apple is going to start making cellular phones, Enron stocks crash, Bill Clinton plays the saxophone.
It's not sky diving, sky diving is actually safe, just a few deaths a year, not 7 in 2 months of just his friends. Overall, 25 to 40 a year Wing Suiters die of a sport that has less than 5,000 doing it. Wing suiting is a different death all together.
@@pwengineering9070 it's not even just wingsuits. Wingsuit skydiving is hardly any more dangerous than regular skydiving. It's wingsuit proximity flying where one is using a base jumping rig flying as close to objects as possible that kills people
No matter what you think of him or the people who wingsuit, you can't deny they are the embodiment of human courage and curiosity. For thousands of years people have been dreaming of doing exactly this and it should be celebrated.
Nuh, I think they are all idiots. Whenever I see that one of these losers has face-planted I think "wow, that guy was fucking stupid, should have found a different hobby".
but it did look fuckin awesome !
jkfdkjjd Disagree. I believe that it's better to die an idiot than to do nothing meaningful in life. ←Quote goes something like that but it sure makes you look at life differently.
Sounds like Mussolini's famous quote: "It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a lamb". It sounds good, but it's a false dichotomy.
UNYIELDING agree
I hope this maniac realizes that the air density at the top of Everest is going to make a face plant highly likely. Everest is twice the height of the Matterhorn.
suedeslounge I think he'll be fine. that dude jumped from edge of space an made it.
He's a professional mountain climber. It's 100% certain that he's entirely aware of the thinning atmosphere at higher altitudes, because it's a fundamental part of his job to know.
choronos I guess we will find out. It's an easy mistake to overlook. I can tell you his practice jump they show wasn't at 29,000 feet, that's for sure. It's a whole different ball game at that altitude.
suedeslounge damn you should tell him that before he jumps, he probably doesn't even know what he's in for. You need to find him and inform him of all of your aerospace expertise.
suedeslounge yeah I'm pretty sure they look into this kind of stuff...
Note to self: Do not ever work or befriend this dude.
Rob Leigh Do not ever work this dude?
What?
Holy Shit! I thought this stuff was dangerous but 16 people would be considered an epidemic of dying. He may be the first base jumping serial killer lol
9:30
Helps if you watch the video.
SpecialKLSX Yeah, helps if you know proper grammar.
Here is grammar. Such my cock.
Three times on his own on the summit? That alone is insane.
Yup, and one of them was the world record fastest Everest climb according to 7:23
I don't believe he holds the the speed record for Everest, a Sherpa went base camp to summit in just over 8 hours with oxygen, 20 hours without. The solo summits is an insane achievement - I'd be keen to know if he used the lines fixed on the mountain by the Sherpas at the start of the season and if he had stores placed at the camps on the way up.
clive ramsbotty Sherpa Pemba Dorje still holds the record for fastest ascent with oxygen from Everest South Base Camp at 8 hours and 10 mins, which he did in 2004. Ogwyn used oxygen also but his world record ascent seems to have been from the North Side in 2008. Though, looks like Discovery Channel has it incorrect on their own web page by saying, "In 2008, Joby set the world record for the fastest ascent of Mt. Everest, climbing from the base of the SOUTH side route to the summit in just nine and a half hours."
Very good points being made here... There is sort of an unofficial divide between the records set by Sherpas and those who aren't Sherpa. Also mentioned above you can climb Everest from the North side to circumvent some ofthe dangers and logistical challenges associated with cromming the Khumbu icefall on the south route.
Regardless of whether or not you go for an alpine ascent or a more staggered operation you will still almost inevitably have to rely on the fixed lines and ladders fitted to the route by the Sherpas at the start of the season.
The siege style of ascent helps with acclimatisation - you go to camp 1, come back to base, go to camp 2, back to camp 1, all the while ferrying supplies such as oxygen tanks, equipment etc. But either way you are very unlikely to be carried down or rescued once above 8,000 metres, regardless of the size of your budget and operation.
Base camp to Summit in 8 hours is absolutely fucking mental, those Sherpas do some superhuman shit on Chomolungma, guys have done it twice in one week, 20+ times, without supllpemental oxygen, this year two guys did the triple crown in one go... Bonkers.
*****
Yeah it's mad shit. To do that though it needs to be your lifes work and you need a long genetic history of adaptation for high altitude over several hundred years. It's a nice idea to muse on that climbers will start treating it as a sporting summit but at the moment it's just too difficult and too dangerous... Above 8,000m you are quite literally dying - your lungs and brain fill with liquid - it's a blast up to the top and back before death gets you. There are a bunch of dead bodies on the mountain you have to walk past.
Just getting to base camp requires huge fitness, reaching the summit is akin to an ultra marathon, an olympic gold, a player of the year award... You are so right when you say you can't make sense of it!
Climbers already take roids for the altitude sickness, dexamethazone. Fascinating right!?
When he said "Aah, you know, 5-10ft, not close at all." My eyes were rolling out of their soccles...
Also did you not catch his comment " this footage is so old the guy who shot it is dead now" and then " he was my best friend and we lost him last June". You know your in a club with a short life expectancy when people are thinking they lost their friend along time ago and it was last year! lol
Murray Flewelling he said the footage was old, not the time when he's friend passed
Myassassin- I appreciate your comment because I am starting my own channel in order to have discussions about key news events within a couple of weeks, and how we use language is very important to the massage we are trying to communicate.
I want you to think again at what I meant when I used the example I made, because while you may be right and I want your thoughts, I believe you missed the subtle point I was making.
At 5.46/ he says ," it's weird, cause this footage is so old that the guy who shot the footage who is flying with me is dead now, died ya,there he is,there's the man,,,,we lost Jeff last June"
My comment is an attempt to point out, that in the mind of the narrator, last June or 2 years ago is a LONG time. You are correct when you say it is his friend's death that took place within a year and the footage was shot sometime in the past, but what the narrator uses, ie the time period of his friends death, hardly gives his audience a perspective on what is old footage. For instance if you knew my dad was 80, and we are watching a documentary on Desert Storm, during the Iraq conflict under the first president Bush, and I say, "wow my dad had not even retired when this footage was made", you instantly have a reference point for a time period in mind, since you have an idea of what age most people retire.
My point here is not to poke fun at a fascinating and thrilling VICE story (as they almost always are) but to make anyone paying close attention realize- HOLY SHIT THIS GUY IS USING A REFERENCE THAT COULD BE AS LITTLE AS A YEAR AGO, TO EXPLAIN TO THE VIEWER, THAT IS A LONG TIME IN THE SPORT OF FLYING WITHOUT BEING A BIRD,LOL. Had I even a 1% interest in trying my hand at this,- aw hobby? you can bet the idea left at the speed of light when he said that. ( and notice, you instantly get the speed of light, as really fast)
Your thoughts on my explanation are important, because I want my channel to ad value to discussions.
what people say and how they act seem to be out of touch in today's society. As an example take private prisons for profit and the way they influence the US criminal system with regard to minorities. ( I am not a minority and while stating that should be irrelevant any objective person knows it is not) If you are the CEO of Insys which is the main company involved in Fentanal, and you deliberately engage in medicare fraud to boost wall street stock prices, chances are you already know, that no one from your company,including you, will see a day in prison even though the companies fraud was directly responsible for numerous people dying. However, had you got caught selling an once of weed in a state with mandatory sentences, it could have resulted in life behind bars even though no one died from what you did.What's worse is (correct me if I am wrong) there are instances where weed is know decriminalized in states where people have been and continue to be in prison for seemingly petty offences. Theses two things are out of line with what decent, intelligent people would classify as justice, but will continue, until US citizens make whatever Government is sitting change it.
Thanks for reading
MrFaasje it was like 50m
I serve him at my bar he said that because some of his friends go 2-3 feet off the ground . He truely feels like hes being safe at 10+ feet lol.
doing that kind of stunt with a wife is shitty. Doing it with a 5 month old son is criminal.
Bret Harley let the man live his life damn. He shouldn’t be unhappy with his life just to please other people
You’re most likely jealous because you’re lazy excuse of a life wouldn’t ever have the chance to be this extraordinary. In a million millennia.
The death rate of his friends are comparable to the hep-c injection death rates on their last documentary... where does passion end and abuse begin
i believe people should be allowed do what ever they want however dangerous as long as they are not physically harming others. a ridiculous amount of people die in car crashes a year but nobody wants to stop that.
Mad Maddox sir the death rate for them is 25%. Hope this helps!
Well the law would say consent
Wow! I would have never thought there were birds flying at the top of Mt. Everest! Amazing.
It's not flying. It's falling with style!
Yes yes well done sir
No its definitely flying...
@@justindarley3502 yup with the suits now, they're able to pull up, gain elevation and "defy" gravity for a matter of seconds before falling again.
This is the guy that got into this sport & didn't pay for it, he made a doco & sold it to the documentary channels. smart move.
You know when people are the best in their field and dropping like flies there is something wrong with the field
Flying too close to the sun, being complacent. Pro level wingsuit base jumpers are always pushing the edge
@@DirtNastyy I am impressed he is still alive :))))
- "how close were you to the wall?"
- "5 to 10 feet. not close at all..."
WTF?!
To be fair a lot of guys get within 2-3 feet of things.
For this sport 10 feet is him being modest.
7 friends in 2 month jesus christ
ossian 8 friends in one minute damn
i lost 7 friends to heroin in 2 months...so nah not worse right up to par id say..but seriously the guys a good guy he should just let it go....his son and family and friends are counting on him to stay alive to it really will be worth somehting in the end...lesson learned has gotta be lesson learned
TheWesnik I think he needs to make the everest jump. and then retire. lkke he said those people cannot have died in vain.
hatacunz you don't shoot heroin literally every minute of every day or wingsuit jump every minute either. The problems for everyone around either type is that as long as they are actively doing either of these activities, it's possible that their next use/jump could be their last. I just don't find wingsuit jumping to be anywhere near as mentally damaging or incapacitating.
yea thats harsh plus those 16 others
Trump doesn't need a wall he just needs to get Mexicans to take up base jumping as their national sport.
Alright, now that was racist.
relax fucko it was a joke
Jose M ya if you can't hilaff at yourself....
Hopefully they can build another boat so all the whites can go back across the atlantic. haha lol "it's a joke"
Thanks FE NG, it was totally meant as a joke and I take no offence at Jose's joke as well! People everywhere just want to be able to make enough to not be stressed all the time and have family or friends that matter.
Wow never new Will Ferrell was so talented.
Dominic Williams I was scrolling through to see if I was the only one thinking that, stay classy Dominic
Nah Jeff Daniels man
nah chubby mark zuckerberg
Knew*
Dominic Williams 😂😂I pissed myself
no eyebrows? maybe for more aero dynamics??
Choa Ming Guy hahahaha maybe
Ha!!!
Choa Ming Guy Maybe the air friction burned them off.
Chris C bruh 😂
7 people in the last TWO months? If I was in his shoes I would burn all my wingsuits and move to a salt lake
Bjorlam they died doing something they love, better then old and in a hospital slowly, painfully, that would be so quick from speed and impact, unless your chute didnt fall you would just be really afraid the first half, then maybe youd accept it
Bjorlam
I like those odds!
+LittleRainGames,
That's complete shite, not to be uttered by anyone who has not nearly died doing something they later decided would've been worth dying for. Those seven people took that chance thinking they'd beat the odds. And will you actually tell me that at that last moment before their demise they felt no regret? Get real. Their actual responses were more like, "fuck, I fucked up. I'm sorry Mom".
The only people who have any business doing this kind of stuff are literal superhumans, as well as those few schmucks who really deserve Darwin awards. There have been far too many decent yet foolhardy risk-takers who've broken the hearts of far too many friends and family members. People, don't try this daredevil shit unless there's no one who cares about you, or unless you're fucking Neo or Superman. You *might* be that good, but with these odds, you're better off never knowing.
what a load of bullshit. splatting into a mountain in the middle of your life is shit - not to mention the impact on your friends. getting old is part of life - by your logic we should all just jump off buildings and kill ourselves rather than get old
Well Said Simon. Nothing is worth dying for.
They all have a death wish in my opinion
This guys going to end up on Bestgore
Chilll lol
16 people... damn that's fucking sad
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Not really.
The worst ever loss on Everest
It's made hope they died doing what they loved
This guy is obviously an attention seeker. There are lots of BASE jumpers who don't surround themselves with cameras and journalists. Additional evidence: the false modesty when he says that flying 5 to 10 feet from the wall is "not really close".
Finally something worth watching
This guys has achieved so much. He is so inspiring id love to fly like that.
This was great, mindboggling in several ways and thought provoking. I really feel for this guy.
There is documentary about him called How to become Base Jumper in 60 days. Thay took him from 0 skydives to BASE jump from Eigar in 60 days
The deaths weren't your fault !! Go get it champ live your dreams
he wants to be the first person to die by jumping off of mount everest?
I doubt he would be the first.
Sirmel11 You Monster hahaha
Who has done it before? No one. No one at all.
Idk people who wanted to kill them self, maybe people who got to the top but know they are going to die on the way down, so they took the short way.It is not totally unreasonable to say some one has done it before, just climbing the mountain is near suicidal. The guy is going to be the first to jump in a *wing* suit. Valery Rozovo has already jumped off Everest in the highest base jump in the world.
san_fran Rosales thank you
Wow vice a kinda cool video. Havnt seen one of them from u guys in a long time! Keep it up
So he is doing his longest jump in memorium. We pay millions to guys running across a field with a ball between their legs while humble guys like this get paid pennies (relatively) and risk their lives just to take our breath away. Kudos and best of luck to this champ and his family.
nothing is more valueable then doing what u love and feeling free
too late I did it already
e.i mccool gg
I did it from Mt. Fuji, was really nice
2 cool 4 school
3times on his own to the summit. Wow. What a guy.
How much cash did you have at 18 to just decide " hmm i think i'll go climb Everest 3 times" must be nice to be able to spend life adventuring.
Climbing the Everest can cost up to 80 000 dollars.
that is with an entire team, this guy did it all by himself. Obviously he had done a ton of research and probably still spend a lot of money on equipment but besides that there is noone you pay. Although im not sure how that works with o2 etc maybe he had some help.
I better not hear about this guy dying from jumping off everest in the news...
dont care about your comment, i liked for your name and avatar LOL
They don’t stop until the die
I jump almost everyday but I just cried through this whole video, its honestly the only way I feel calm and in control livehighordie
People in the comment have no heart, no bravery, this is BADASS! RIP to everyone who passed
Ever heard of speed climbing? Most have not as there is few people like the late Dan Osman that try to go up mountains in ten min's that usually take hours. He also talked about his daughter being important and intended to take a long break, but after doing a 1000 foot dive with just ropes for Guinness, he decided to do it one more time before packing up the ropes and just kept on going to the bottom. TH-cam has a lot of his crazy footage .
I got into supersports because I always wanted to fly fighter jets, the feeling of flying through corners at high speeds is unlike anything, I’ve been on a tandem jump but a wing suit flight is on my bucket list
Awesome documentary, but how can there be 225 countries, if there are really only 195?
lord bless this mans journey.
What's that round silver thing he put in the side of the mac? with the whole in the middle.
It's the flux capacitor doc was looking for
Whole in the middle?!
The Ricky Bobby of skydiving
Austin Johnson lmao
BASE jumping*
Whenever I watch these type of clips I think of the following, a man's reach should never exceed his grasp
What does that mean? 🤔
Sorry for the loss of your friend. L Lawdy I hope your wingsuiting technique has improved in the last 7 years :). That is some scary inefficient dihedral flight and slammer full flight deployments ouch!
LET'S GO CHAMP! - Shannon Briggs
3 years ago big meme now
I think this would be awesome. Ive been skydiving about 8 times and was about to try hang gliding but broke my back I still did a lot but without my legs there's no way to super squirrel. Even to jump now paralyzed I have to go tandem
Holy shit just flying down the mountain like that must feel euphoric, that's such a beautiful sight... SUCH FREEDOM ahh I'm jealous... I wouldn't have the guts to do it, but flying through a sky with mountains like that sounds like a dream come true
Go for it dude, I believe in you.
There was a sherpa that jumped off a year or two ago with a glide chute, he beat everybody, no one wants to talk about it. He was THE First.
3 times to the summit alone, dude your a goddam legend!
This is like a drug addiction for him
Glad to hear this amazing story !
The first time this guy cursed it was surprising and refreshing. Then a couple more in and I was over it.
man, what an inspiration u are !! after the Mike Tyson HotBox pod, it really shows ehat kinda person u are! a real, and great humble human being!
all the best to u and yours, Joby, one love from Norway
Not sure about Everest, it would be very hard to get enough wind resistance to push away from the face at that altitude, but K2 would be perfect. It's pretty much vertical most of the way.
Wrong: the most powerful feeling in the world is sex. Everybody knows that.
recterbert wrong!! H is the best feeling in the world. The old golden brown.
recterbert 😂😂😂
So you have the first hand experience of wingsuit flying to draw on this conclusion?
Ape man Commeth unless you have a lot of heroin
how do you account for the air being thinner? youll drop much faster then your used to if you jump from the summit of mount everest.
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All i can say is if you see this dude run away, so you don't end up dead.
With that attitude he`s going to be a mile long red stripe down the side of Mt. Everest.
I wouldn't call it tragic, like what the fuck do you expect to happen when you jump out of a plane or off a cliff in a wing suit? Or climb a dangerous mountain? Obviously people are going to die... hard to feel bad for people that die from something so stupid. Tragedy is when something horrible happens to someone that was not their fault. Those guys basically already died for nothing.
What an amazing journey. Joby Ogwyn, I'm not the most religious man, but god bless you brother!
5:00 You are already going as fast as the plane as soon as you exit- momentum conservation
Personal source- I yelled for those 2 seconds jumping out of an airplane the first time when I was 12. It's gnarly.
a very very special man Joby Ogwyn... thank you brother for inspiring us. And don't forget its not your fault for the lives of those people.... everyone individually chose their path, and sometimes God wants you back, soon than you think. We forget we can go away today.... or tomorrow... we think we are here forever... im sorry.. no... life is to short... Wake up and Live !!!!
Good to see he was friends with our fellow country man Jonathan Florez, who as he mentions, died in Switzerland a couple months back.
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He seems like a really nice humble guy
I hate to be that guy, and trying to set a world's first/world record does slightly change things, but Climbing Mt. Everest has always been most dangerous for the
Sherpas that are hired by westerners (Like Joby). The Sherpas do 95% of the work, going ahead and setting the camps, ropes, and ladders for their clients. This was very much known and understood for people like Joby, and has only become more obvious the last couple of years. Also, the amount of trash, and dead bodies that are stacking up creates another problem. The mountain is often overcrowded due to the overwhelming amount of rich Americans and Europeans that essentially pay to have the mountain climbed for them. I understand this is an achievement, but painting this guy as a total hero is kind of crazy to me.
Amazing job! You're on top of the world man...stay there!
7 friends in 2 months? Half of the 16 avalanche fatalities on Everest? Newborn?
Time to start thinking about others first bro.
Can someone explain why this is different than what Valery Rozov did for Red Bull?
There's bigger things in life than flying. Losing that many friends would make me think about that.
Summit Everest 3 times by himself wtf that's insane with no sherpa
Good luck friend! But youre gonna be the second, 2 himalayan sherpas already did it and they kayaked all the way down to the indian ocean, still i wish you all the best and will be waiting for a vieo of that trip 🤙🏽🤙🏽
His drop will be big I'd imagine before catching minimum glide scope with the thin air compared to other bases usually jumped from much lower spots. He will be halling ass before he can turn upward to slow down. Should be a wild but very dangerous ride.
I try my hardest
to stay away from this guy. obviously death tends to roam around him.
Anyone know the song when he's jumping out of the plane at the end?
damn. that is what i was looking for.
I was looking for it too.
Thanks My Toe. A shame your search was not fruitful. :(
If any of you ever find it please let us know!! It's stuck in my mind!
These guys DO have a deathwise. If you've had just about every best friend die from jumping wingsuit, and you still do it, you are asking and possibly expecting to die....plain and simple...
Valery Rozov, already base jumped off Everest 3 years ago
That's extreme
“Once I had a kid I wanted to see him grow up” also “ well I can’t let these people who died because I wanted the ultimate rush, let’s still put my life in mortal danger again and again …”
Reminds me of will ferrell.
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That seems weird if less air up there how will you pull away from the mt
hes not going to quit....a behavioral health issue...
persistence towards a goal is not any type of health issue
with morbidity and mortality rate like that, despite being fully aware of it, he goes and does it anyway, while attempting to reason for the justification, is diagnostic of behavioral health problems, like substance abuse, only his drug of choice is from an endogenous source.
its something he likes to do, and i again justifiably doubt that you are right in any way because our only support is your claim
heroin is another thing people like to do
actually it isnt most addicts are miserable. now could you stop talking out of your ass?
There were 2 guys that were the first to ditch Mt Everest but one man had more higher ditch from space. There are probably more people making videos of ditching Mt Everest.
Too bad, because he's not going to be the first person to jump off of Everest. Sanobabu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tshiri Sherpa paraglided off the summit in 2011... and then kayaked to the Indian Ocean.
The whole vibe I got was. Them darn wingsuits!
I met a wingsuiter recently, he told me that of the 60 people he trained with 58 of them have died
You just made it 10 times harder now with the baby. Dont fuck it up dude, baby = fear and possible regret, I'm speaking from experience as a HG pilot with a few mishaps. Good luck
I'm from Louisiana and I'm the same way.
too late you have been beaten to it fella. a French guy did a wingsuit jump off of the top and two Nepalis para-sailed off of the summit and flew to Tengboche before jumping into kayaks and riding the rapids to the Ganges then paddling it to the bay of Bengal.
So strange to just watch the documentary of him learning to sky dive and bace jump for the first time to him years later.
Can someone who actually knows what they're talking about explain how his fellow wingsuit base jumper friends die when they perform their jumps? Obviously it has something to do with a parachute malfunction. Is this caused due to their speed or angles? How exactly are these mistakes happening?
Am I missing something here? Did a guy named Valery Rozov not fly off the west face 3 years ago? Was a Red Bull thing.
What the, This guy did this 5 years ago. So why is this published now, as news? This is history, not news. Big news: Apple is going to start making cellular phones, Enron stocks crash, Bill Clinton plays the saxophone.
we all used to be able to fly but we forgot how.
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Learn how to lucid dream. You can do anything, even fly.
the editing is so nice.
he mentions jonny strange...I did a balloon jump with him 1 month before he died in Switzerland
dam the skydiving comunity must be a emotional rollercoaster
It's not sky diving, sky diving is actually safe, just a few deaths a year, not 7 in 2 months of just his friends.
Overall, 25 to 40 a year Wing Suiters die of a sport that has less than 5,000 doing it. Wing suiting is a different death all together.
@@pwengineering9070 it's not even just wingsuits. Wingsuit skydiving is hardly any more dangerous than regular skydiving. It's wingsuit proximity flying where one is using a base jumping rig flying as close to objects as possible that kills people
Suddenly I feel a whole lot of satisfaction for my safe, grounded way of life.
next thing you know you've watched the whole thing!! excellent
What is the song near the end of this video?