98 of world's best lunatics, sorry, base-jumpers (easy mistake), flung themselves from the 421m International Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Starting in 1999 with a handful of participants the annual event has ballooned and now includes competitors from 18 countries, willing to throw themselves off the fifth highest building in the world.
The event isn't even a competition. Although base-jumping is a hard thing to score. Not dead? Ten!
It's literally just a chance for base-jumpers to legally hurl themselves off a building
Arguably invented by Frederick Law who jumped off the statue of liberty in 1912, B.A.S.E jumping got off to a rough start. Compare this footage of Franz Reichelt, a Parisian tailor, throwing himself off the Eiffel Tower in 1912 in his "parachute suit" to the footage of this years International Tower Jump event below.
After "the jump" we have the footage and more some stomach turning snaps...
