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The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched

38 points by fauria 13y ago

Jun8 13y ago
For those of you who are as ignorant of this as me: BASE is an acronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping). I don't really understand what exit refers to in this context, anyone care to enlighten? It's surprisingly hard to google info on this, must be a really fringe thing.
- tmoullet 13y ago
  I assume it meant "jumpable cliff" i.e. a cliff/tower high enough and smooth enough that you could jump off and deploy a parachute and land safely.
- jackcarter 13y ago
  "Exit", short for "exit point", just refers to the place someone BASE jumps off.
- kej 13y ago
  The exit is the edge where you jump off to start your fall. You "exit" the building or cliff or whatever.
- yan 13y ago
  As others said, exit is where you jump from. Exits matter because not all are safe vertical drops, some are way more stylistic than others and in case of BASE wingsuiting, some lead to specific lines. A line is the flight path a wingsuit pilot takes after jumping. Recent times, proximity flying has been getting more popular, where a person wearing a ram air wingsuit tries to get as close to cliffs, ground, trees or other natural elements as possible. As you can guess, lots of people die doing this. For an example of a safe exit that immediately leads to a very spicy line, check this video, at 0:40 specifically: https://vimeo.com/82949889 https://vimeo.com/82949889
  - hfsktr 13y ago
    My palms got sweaty just watching that video. I don't think that is something I could do.
    - BrandonMarc 13y ago
      Agreed. I'm so glad the people who do record helmet-cam videos of it, and post them for me to watch instead.
- adwf 13y ago
  Thanks, my first thought was some super-secret underground lair...
adam778 13y ago
who cares?
rjknight 13y ago
What fresh hell is responsible for the scrolling on that site? I realise that he's used to seeing the world flash before his eyes at nauseating speed, but I'm not sure it makes for a great web interface.
- cocoflunchy 13y ago
  Scrolling doesn't work at all for me, I have to manual click and drag the slider...
- GigabyteCoin 13y ago
  Scrolling works 100% in my latest firefox 27.0
  - anyfoo 13y ago
    But it behaves... strange. You'll notice it if you use a touchpad and kinetic scrolling. It seems too fast and somehow not very, well, kinetic.
    - josefresco 13y ago
      Read the article in FF 26 and mouse-wheel scrolling was indeed way too fast and "slippery". Reminded me of all those Flash scroll bars in the 00's that just worked... horribly.\ I pulled this quickly from the source: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/ http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/ Curiously, the nicescroll website itself seems to behave a bit better. Maybe it's this implementation that went wrong.
      - keehun 13y ago
        It works terribly on the nicescroll site itself. Why do they feel like they need to mess with the scroll behavior? Why break the expected behavior?
      - gurkendoktor 13y ago
        The NiceScroll website doesn't let me stop the scrolling's inertia/movement by tapping with both fingers. If this site hadn't broken it, I wouldn't even have noticed that this is possible and that I use it every few seconds :)
solidsnack9000 13y ago
What is meant by the last sentence? > For us came on the probable cost of one big awesome flying ride off the majestic Ulvetanna.
- kzrdude 13y ago
  The failure of the group to work well cost them mission success (they couldn't do the jump).
frodopwns 13y ago
Not very relevant to hacker news.
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dvere 13y ago
Every time I see one of these videos I have two thoughts. One, insane never could do. Two, that's what flying in my dreams looks like, I can completely see why they do what they do.
BrandonMarc 13y ago
What's a interesting about the article is what it doesn't describe: namely, the nature and details of the conflicts which led to the abort of the mission. I expect the writer is being polite, and considers this an open letter to both sides of the conflict(s). That said, with all the buildup, it feels a wee bit unsatisfying to not know what went wrong. Perhaps the writer doesn't quite know for sure, since everyone (themself included) is biased.
cezary 13y ago
I don't know why he claims it's untouched, Red Bull sent a team out to base jump from Ulvetanna back in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg

38 points by fauria 13y ago

Jun8 13y ago

For those of you who are as ignorant of this as me: BASE is an acronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping). I don't really understand what exit refers to in this context, anyone care to enlighten? It's surprisingly hard to google info on this, must be a really fringe thing.

tmoullet 13y ago
I assume it meant "jumpable cliff" i.e. a cliff/tower high enough and smooth enough that you could jump off and deploy a parachute and land safely.
jackcarter 13y ago
"Exit", short for "exit point", just refers to the place someone BASE jumps off.
kej 13y ago
The exit is the edge where you jump off to start your fall. You "exit" the building or cliff or whatever.
yan 13y ago
As others said, exit is where you jump from. Exits matter because not all are safe vertical drops, some are way more stylistic than others and in case of BASE wingsuiting, some lead to specific lines. A line is the flight path a wingsuit pilot takes after jumping. Recent times, proximity flying has been getting more popular, where a person wearing a ram air wingsuit tries to get as close to cliffs, ground, trees or other natural elements as possible. As you can guess, lots of people die doing this. For an example of a safe exit that immediately leads to a very spicy line, check this video, at 0:40 specifically: https://vimeo.com/82949889 https://vimeo.com/82949889
- hfsktr 13y ago
  My palms got sweaty just watching that video. I don't think that is something I could do.
  - BrandonMarc 13y ago
    Agreed. I'm so glad the people who do record helmet-cam videos of it, and post them for me to watch instead.
adwf 13y ago
Thanks, my first thought was some super-secret underground lair...

adam778 13y ago

who cares?

rjknight 13y ago

What fresh hell is responsible for the scrolling on that site? I realise that he's used to seeing the world flash before his eyes at nauseating speed, but I'm not sure it makes for a great web interface.

cocoflunchy 13y ago
Scrolling doesn't work at all for me, I have to manual click and drag the slider...
GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Scrolling works 100% in my latest firefox 27.0
- anyfoo 13y ago
  But it behaves... strange. You'll notice it if you use a touchpad and kinetic scrolling. It seems too fast and somehow not very, well, kinetic.
  - josefresco 13y ago
    Read the article in FF 26 and mouse-wheel scrolling was indeed way too fast and "slippery". Reminded me of all those Flash scroll bars in the 00's that just worked... horribly.\ I pulled this quickly from the source: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/ http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/ Curiously, the nicescroll website itself seems to behave a bit better. Maybe it's this implementation that went wrong.
    - keehun 13y ago
      It works terribly on the nicescroll site itself. Why do they feel like they need to mess with the scroll behavior? Why break the expected behavior?
    - gurkendoktor 13y ago
      The NiceScroll website doesn't let me stop the scrolling's inertia/movement by tapping with both fingers. If this site hadn't broken it, I wouldn't even have noticed that this is possible and that I use it every few seconds :)

solidsnack9000 13y ago

What is meant by the last sentence? > For us came on the probable cost of one big awesome flying ride off the majestic Ulvetanna.

kzrdude 13y ago
The failure of the group to work well cost them mission success (they couldn't do the jump).

frodopwns 13y ago

Not very relevant to hacker news.

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dvere 13y ago

Every time I see one of these videos I have two thoughts. One, insane never could do. Two, that's what flying in my dreams looks like, I can completely see why they do what they do.

BrandonMarc 13y ago

What's a interesting about the article is what it doesn't describe: namely, the nature and details of the conflicts which led to the abort of the mission. I expect the writer is being polite, and considers this an open letter to both sides of the conflict(s). That said, with all the buildup, it feels a wee bit unsatisfying to not know what went wrong. Perhaps the writer doesn't quite know for sure, since everyone (themself included) is biased.

cezary 13y ago

I don't know why he claims it's untouched, Red Bull sent a team out to base jump from Ulvetanna back in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg