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 cjjeepercreeper
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Joined: Nov 27, 2006
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Posts: 6146
Location: At the Mountains of Madness
   
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Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: Future Darwin Award recipients |
 
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Amazing, these folks can be the first group winner of the Darwin Award. 
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Dolores-area resident plans jump over Mount Everest
Article Last Updated; Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Dolores-area resident Harold Watkins will attempt to skydive over Mount Everest on Thursday with a group of fellow adventurists.
Weather permitting, 34 people will jump out of a high-altitude aircraft at 29,500 feet - 500 feet higher than the 29,035-foot summit. The skydivers will then fall through minus-50 degree temperatures before landing on the world's highest drop zone at 12,350 feet.
Most of the divers have had previous experience. A few others without much, such as Watkins, will jump attached to another person.
U.K. adventure company High & Wild has prepared for the jump for two years. Oxygen masks will be used because of the thin air. The free-fall speeds will reach up to 140 mph, so divers were prefitted with high-altitude gear.
Watkins and most of the skydivers arrived in Nepal on Sept. 22 to help acclimate to the high altitude.
No one has tried the feat, and Watkins knows it may still not happen.
"Are we crossing our fingers? You bet we are," he said.
Watkins is a law partner at the Aspey, Watkins & Diesel law firm in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he flies to work.
His partner, Louis Diesel, also will be jumping tandem. Diesel wasn't worried about the technical nature of the jump.
"Can you jump out of a chair? Then you can jump off Everest," he said. |
http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2008/10/01/Doloresarea_resident_plans_jump_over_Mount_Everest/?printable=1
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 Waffen
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Joined: Oct 25, 2006
Member#: 2503
Posts: 1421
Location: England & Thailand
 
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:22 am Post subject: |
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What about me for my revolutionary theories of gene splicing? AKA Monkeydogs (see forum thread from last year sometime, im too stupid to remember when).
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 Blaspheretic
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Joined: Jul 01, 2007
Member#: 3647
Posts: 2568
Location: Königsee / Thuringia / Germany
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Yeah!!! Total support!!! Great fantastic awesome idea!!!
Stupid morons retiring themselves from gene pool and even in an
entertaining way for others, best news today, saved my weekend.
So let's see how "many" of them will survive, rofl.
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 kratos
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Joined: Jun 14, 2008
Member#: 5304
Posts: 981
Location: Singapore.SingaHell!
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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i wish i can join them falling at that incredible nekro speed!
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