Fulfilling the dream of flight in a high-tech wingsuit
16 april 2009 | 
Ueli Gegenschatz
Ueli Gegenschatz flight just about every way a human can: paragliding, skydiving, BASE jumping (from the Eiffel Tower), and most breathtakingly: by donning a wingsuit and soaring.
Ueli Gegenschatz flight just about every way a human can: paragliding, skydiving, BASE jumping (from the Eiffel Tower), and most breathtakingly: by donning a wingsuit and soaring.
Wingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports — an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at over 100MPH. Ueli Gegenschatz talks about how (and why) he does it, and shows jawdropping film.
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More about Ueli Gegenschatz
Ueli Gegenschatz is known for his expert paragliding, skydiving and BASE jumping — and his utterly jawdropping flight in a wingsuit, a high-tech flying-squirrel-inspired getup that lets him soar as close as humanly possible to our shared dream of flight. His “addiction to speed” is inspiring and a little bit nutty, but his preparation for each jump is very serious (his online biography lists his professions as “aerialist / insurance and precaution advisor”).
Ueli Gegenschatz is known for his expert paragliding, skydiving and BASE jumping — and his utterly jawdropping flight in a wingsuit, a high-tech flying-squirrel-inspired getup that lets him soar as close as humanly possible to our shared dream of flight. His “addiction to speed” is inspiring and a little bit nutty, but his preparation for each jump is very serious (his online biography lists his professions as “aerialist / insurance and precaution advisor”).
A member of the Swiss national paragliding team for four years, Gegenschatz co-founded the Red Bull acro team in 1995. His BASE jumping stunts are the stuff of YouTube legend: the Eiffel Tower; Petronas Towers in KL; the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau peaks all in one day … and for 2009 he’s working on several world-premiere aerial stunts that will once again redefine humanity’s relationship to gravity.
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