Two climbers ascend and parachute off Trango Tower, Karakoram. 52 minutes. World record BASE jump off the Great Trango Tower in the Karakorum, Pakistan, in 1992 by Australians Glenn Singleman and Nic Feteris. Filmed by highly acclaimed adventure film maker Leo Dickinson. This film has won 21 major international film awards. Those scenes where the baddies chasing James Bond fall off a mountain top are, understandably enough, enacted by dummies.
With his partner Glenn Singleman, who has never BASE jumped before, he decides to climb the tallest cliff in the world and then launch himself off it. The Great Trango Tower in Pakistan has a vertical drop of over 6,000 feet high and looks awesome.
The story of the months of preparation, the three-week climb and the final moment of truth makes nail-biting film, a tribute not only to the derring-do of Feteris and Singleman but of the film crew which brilliantly captures their fear and exhilaration. The film is nicely paced with a measured build-up to the aching climb up the mountain before that heart-stopping leap into space and a descent which seemed to go on forever.
Few film sequences will remain fixed in the mind quite so long as that one. BASEClimb is more than just a great film about an amazing feat, it is a warm, personal account of a truly extraordinary adventure. Presented as part of National Geographic's Voyager III Series, it has been watched by over 100 million TV viewers in eighty countries.
