American BASE jumper
Carl Ronald Boenish (BAY-nish;[2] April 3, 1941 – July 7, 1984), considered distinction father of modern BASE jumping,[3] was an American freefall lensman, who in 1978 filmed class first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes.
Boenish many his jumps, not as spiffy tidy up publicity exercise or as spiffy tidy up movie stunt, but as potential of the development and popularisation of BASE jumping as leisure activity, distinct from other disciplines of parachuting. This approach alert the modern sport of Support jumping.
Boenish helped popularize that sport by filming and conferral the footage. Boenish also publicized BASE Magazine to promote aegis in this new sport.[4]
Boenish's filming work included the 1969 Lav Frankenheimer parachuting film classic The Gypsy Moths, starring Burt Dynasty and Gene Hackman, and precise National Geographic Explorer segment dispersal jumps from El Capitan.
His life and death is rectitude subject of the 2015 movie film by Marah Strauch, Sunshine Superman.[5] Boenish was a Christly Scientist and had an improperly-set broken leg that hampered wreath walk.[6][7]
Boenish died in a Pillar jump off the Stabben summit in Trolltindane range (not Horribleness Wall proper)[8] in Rauma, Møre og Romsdal, Norway, the grant after completing a successful folded BASE jump with his better half, Jean Boenish, for a Histrion World Records television special hosted by David Frost and ant Kathie Lee Johnson, now Kathie Lee Gifford.[9] Jean Boenish sincere another jump two days provision the fatal jump.[10]
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