Name your fix.  Some people drink.  Some buy shoes, others eat chocolate.  Heck, some people watch self-help videos to feel alive.  Then there are those, such as this guy who feel alive when jumping off a cliff – and God bless’em for it.  This is one sick video.  To be honest, I can’t believe people have the cojones to pull stunts like this, but it sure is fun to watch!  If only his friend would get his foot out of the way…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTFj90zsN4

Leave it to them crazy cats at Red Bull to come up with the sickest, most hardcore stunts ever conceived by someone on, well, Red Bull.  This one’s beyond hardcore.  In this video, Ueli Gegenschatz jumps from a moving truck on the Ataturk aqueduct and dives straight into oblivion.  While there’s obviously a corporate plug going on here, you gotta admit that the cojones are thicker than soup in the production of this video.  This guy is bad, bad, bad!

Parlez-vous francais?  No worries, you don’t have to speak french to appreciate the awesomeness of this video.  I love how these two guys climb the Eiffel Tower in the early morning, with no one around, jump from the third upper floor, land and run into the bushes for a quick change, while Paris sleeps around them, oblivious to the fact that these two guys just BASE jumped one of the most famous buildings on Earth.  They could be ninjas.

There are no words that can really capture the poetry of this video, in which J.T. Holmes and some Norwegian BASE Jumpers glide over the cliffs of Norway. Amazing. Just amazing. I want a wing-suit.

You’re not gonna see them whipping into a phone booth to don a red cape anytime soon, but there are those among us who do some pretty superhuman things.  Guys like Alain Robert, the Human Spider, who’s climbed some of the world’s tallest buildings, including Petronas Towers and the former World Trade Center with only his hands and climbing shoes, Wim Hof, aka the Iceman, capable of functioning in extreme cold for long periods (like running an Arctic marathon shirtless at 20 below zero!) and Daniel Tammet , aka the Brain Man, who once recited the first 22,000 digits of pi, and learned Icelandic – one of the world’s most difficult languages – in a week.  Although the Hulk will always be my favourite.

Quick, anyone who’s seen The Eiger Sanction, that 1975 Clint Eastwood cliffhanger, raise your hand!  Thought so.  Now, anyone who’s seen someone climb a 13,000 foot mountain without safety equipment, step forward.  Right, now, who’s seen a man jump off that same mountain?  Exactly.  Dean Potter, the 38 year-old American daredevil is in pretty select company.  I mean, mountains were made for jumping off, with nothing more than a skimpy parachute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7NcLCC-YNI

The picture says it all.  Daredevil Austrian BASE Jumper Felix Baumgartner scaled one of the largest and certainly most famous statues on Earth way back in January 1999.  What made this jump so spectacular was that this was the lowest BASE jump on record at the time.  At 95 feet, Baumgartner had just seconds after jumping to pull his chute.  The high jumps like Burj Khalifa might be sexier, but it’s low jumps like this that are riskier because there’s precious little time for the parachute to open before the jumper becomes road pizza.  This jump went down in history as one of the most dangerous, and most spectacular ever caught on film, and enough to make Environmental Graffiti’s The 5 Most Mindblowing BASE Jumps in History, and my own personal thumbs up.

Don’t try this at home boys and girls.  Last month, two skydivers, Omar Alhegalan and Nasser Al Neyadi, went beyond the insane and entered world record territory by jumping off the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai).  But what good would a jump off the world’s tallest building be without making a movie of it on the way down?  That way, we can all share in the insanity, the motion sickness, the paralyzing fear of heights as Omar peeks over the top and hopefully shed our inhibitions, or last meal, as our two friends hurtle from 2205 feet, or roughly the CN Tower plus the Space Needle, at 137 miles an hour, and set a new BASE Jumping record in the process.  To Omar and Nasser, from me to you, you got cojones the size of bowling balls.  Warning: if you seriously don’t like heights, don’t watch this video.  If you don’t have a heart condition, you will very soon.  The video is below the two images.

A preoccupation with size. Hey, they just jumped off the world's tallest building, they're allowed to gloat!!