BASE Jump
Roger Holmes, Gus Hutchinson-Brown and Tim Emmett made the first BASE jump from the stack on 14 May 2008. The trio planned the jump for over three years, took seven hours to climb the stack, and just 10 seconds to get back down again. Hutchinson-Brown died 11 days later during a jump in Switzerland.
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