B.A.S.E adventure's

so there i was.....standing statue-like in the middle of a cold quiet Durban street,the feint hue of the video camera illuminating my face. Looking up into the milky black city sky,i waited like an expectant father for my 3 friend's,waiting for what you may ask? well at 2am in the cool morning as the city slept,my friends stood precariously on one of the city's highest building's,ready for the jump,cold and calm in confidence,their face's solemn,introvert and focused. The 112metre's between them and the un-forgiving tarmac,igniting inside them a passion very few people enjoy,the passion to base jump,to jump from thing's no other's would,to jump from place's no one has jumped from before and to leave their very rare signature on landmark's all over the world. Hero's to no one and without any drive for recognition they jump one after the other...my heart in my mouth,the freefall is brief and the crack of the high-performance parachute, like a gunshot, echoe's down the street. Why do they do what they do? why take such risk's?

Having never tried base jumping,simply because of financial reason's at present,i have no idea truely what it is like but having been with these people and helped them break into bulding's and push them through fire exit's in rooftop's,i began to understand the concept and why so few people do base jumping. People who base jump are not looking for recognition or the cool-factor,they don't want highfive's or epic facebook picture's. They are in search of much more than that,they are searching for themselve's. Base jumper's are looking for the intense joy inside that normal people feel when they conquer a great feat in their own live's,for example achieving a goal academically or making the first team rubgy in school,it is that warm content that you feel when you really do know exactly what you are doing and you have supreme confidence in yourself. You don't shout about it or make a scene but it is that feeling that keep's a smile alway's on your face. To a base jumper, real world goal's are not enough,they need more,they want to explore their deepest darkest weaknesse's and fault's and what better way to do it then flirting so intimately with death. When you are standing with your toe's over the edge of the cliff,antenna,building or skyscraper,you will truly figure out who you are inside,fear will show you who you really are,height and the risk's will iron out all your crease's. In that moment of absolute danger,is where a base jumper's mind can make calculated decision's and in milli-second's understand all the risk's, everchanging factor's such as wind and this is where they get there greatest pleasure. Along with that come's a sport un-regulated,un-tainted and un-controlled,free from politic's,money chasers and pencil pusher's and you get the most pure sport on earth.Think about it.....it is the most pure sport on earth.

'Fear paralyse's the majority but give's clarity to some'-Travis Pastrana

I understand why they do it....do you?