First Ever Everest Skydive Successful

Three skydivers made a record-breaking skydive on Sunday by jumping over the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, in Nepal. (Oct. 6)

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[tlescpk]

Skydiving Everest? Meh.

Pole-vaulting Everest? Now that's something.

[raidereddie]

Big deal.. It's not like they climbed the mountain and base jumped it. THAT would have been something.

[oddsource]

@raidereddie true that... walking past dead bodies is bad moral already. All they did was parachute from the plane. LOL

[megaflyer99]

@awquity Sorry, *solo* 90 people have Soloed the summit. sorry for the missing word

[awquity]

@megaflyer99

90? try close to 3000.

[megaflyer99]

@buhtailo ...And yet the ascent of everest takes around 6-10 days... WHILE you're vertically 1 or 2 miles away from someone, and horizontally 5 miles away from any one else. @kermw10 is right. I'm no expert, but I think only around 90 people have ever reached the summit.

[megaflyer99]

@raidereddie the air up there is so thin that you would need a wing-suit with a huge surface area. the added weigh of the wing-suit would slow there ascent to the peak, so they would need more oxygen, which is more weight. past a certain point, it becomes physically impossible to carry any more weight up the mountain. (however, if we could modify our lungs to work at 100% efficiency, instead of 20%, we could do it ) blue whales lungs are 100% efficient. thats why they can stay under for hours :)

[megaflyer99]

@tlescpk chuck norris did that during high school track

[kernmw10]

@buhtailo "climbing mount everest is nothing" You're an idiot. Not many people have summited let alone reach base camp you twat

[Pentdad]

What would make this awsome is climbing to the top then jumping off. Very dangerous but not impossible.

[billymays1325]

FAKE this is just skydiving from 30000 thousand feet, now climb the mountain then jump oof of it with a parachute