Base Jumping History

The History of BASE jumping goes back to the 70s. People made base jumps for quite some time, especially since the military has been sky diving for ages, but in 1978 Carl Boenish started to film the first base jumps and thereby made base jumping public.

BASE numbers are given to jumpers you made jumps from all four base objects, and an special number is given for the first night base jump since they are even more dangerous. The first base number was given to Phil Smith, the second one to Phil Mayfield. They were the two jumpers filmed by Carl Boenish and thus the first public figures of base jumping. Mayfield got the night base number first, then Smith.

Further History:

• 1912 – Franz Reichelt tailors himself a coat parachute, jumps of the Eiffel Tower and dies.
• 1913 – Stefan Banic demonstrates his parachute to the military.
• 1975 – Bill Eustace gets fired, after jumping ofthe CN Tower in Toronto
• 1976 – Rick Sylvester skies of a Mountain in Canda for a James Bond movie, it’s the first public base jump

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