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'Fearless' Felix Baumgartner Breaks Skydiving World Record, Sound Barrier

Landon King — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:46:25 +0000

Austrian BASE-jumper Baumgartner, 43, broke a 52-year-old skydiving altitude record and the sound barrier by jumping out of a space capsule 128,100 feet above the Earth in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday.

An 80-Year-Old Woman Went Skydiving and Almost Slipped Out of Her Harness

Landon King — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:01:18 +0000

Skydiving footage of an 80-year-old named Laverne is getting a bunch of attention online right now because her harness wasn't on tight enough and she almost slipped out of it in MID-AIR.

Skydiver Becomes the First to Land Without Parachute

Mithun Divakaran — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000

BASE jumper Gary Connery of England has become the first man to skydive and land safely (this was required to claim the record) without deploying a parachute. How did he manage to pull that off? Well, the professional stuntman glided himself into a pile of cardboard boxes. 18,600 of them.

Hero of the Day: An 85-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Went Skydiving on His Birthday to Spite Hitler

Landon King — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:38:05 +0000

It's time for my Hero of the Day. Gary Lenzner turned 85 last Sunday, and took the opportunity to celebrate in a pretty awesome way.