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Jeb Corliss: The “Evel Knievel” of BASE Jumping

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · BASE Jumping, Main Entry, People, Sky

Renowned adrenaline junkie, Jeb Corliss has hurled himself from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Seattle’s Space Needle, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Stratosphere casino in Las Vegas, and even received three years probation after being arrested trying to breach (famously) New York’s Empire State building.

Now, Corliss has set his sites on an even more radical departure: “becoming the first man to jump from a plane and land (alive) without a parachute.”

“‘Everybody has a gift, something they’re good at — and my gift is fear. I can do things with fear. When most people are crippled by fear, on the ground, puking, that’s when I’m at my best,’” reports Bill Gifford of Men’s Journal

photo credit: robertpaulyoung

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