Carl Boenish's Gravity project seks funding.

[kimemerson 7]

Here's a project some folks are trying to get started. I don't know if this has been brought up already. Sorry if this is redundant. (I'm not too sharp on the make it a clicky thing.)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marahstrauch/help-us-transfer-carl-boenishs-archive-and-finish?pos=39&ref=recommended

[Amazon 7]

Quote

Here's a project some folks are trying to get started. I don't know if this has been brought up already. Sorry if this is redundant. (I'm not too sharp on the make it a clicky thing.)

Ok

[akarunway 1]

Quote

Here's a project some folks are trying to get started. I don't know if this has been brought up already. Sorry if this is redundant. (I'm not too sharp on the make it a clicky thing.)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marahstrauch/help-us-transfer-carl-boenishs-archive-and-finish?pos=39&ref=recommended

I met a real cool woman at DeLand about 10 yrs. ago. She has some really cool shit from way back. I'll see if I can track her down. Or talk to Maddog or what's his name? That 3 ring guy. This guy was cool too.>http://guswing.com/photo_journal.html Or this guy>http://www.lewsanbornaccuracy.com/images/meet/13/IMG_3288_edited.jpgOr here>http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/incidents/18340-list-version-3-1-2-a.html>#5 Carl Boenish, BASE #4, June 7, 1984
Age: 43
Cliff Jump
Trollwall (Stabben) Norway
Cliff Strike
“Carl Boenish is the father of BASE jumping. He organized the trips to Yosemite’s El Capitan that resulted in the first “modern” BASE jumps in 1978. The term modern refers to jumps made using ram-air canopies and the ability to track. All fixed object jumps previous to these had been one time stunt type jumps. Carl showed us that fixed object jumping was not only possible for an experienced jumper, it was repeatable.”

“Carl Boenish (his family always called him Ronnie) began jumping at Lake Elsinore, California in 1960 at the age of 21. One day, in 1966, while heavily involved in filming the West Coast RW scene, he hears the story of two skydivers, Michael Pelky and Michael Shubert who went to Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan and jumped off using their Para Commander round parachutes. Both are badly injured by hitting the wall under canopy on the way down. The idea, however, stuck in Carl’s mind and years later in 1977, while in Yosemite Valley filming hang glider pilots, Carl looks around at all the vertical granite and thinks of those two back in 1966, and more importantly, it's a time when he truly begins to believe . . .”

“Tuesday, August 8, 1978 is the day BASE jumping as a sport is born. Carl is lowered over El Captain’s rounded brow on a rope. While looking down he proclaims his now famous, “Eureka, we can jump here!” The first person off is Kent Lane. Kent is followed five minutes later, in order, by Tom Start, Mike Sherrin and Ken Gosselin."

"Carl later names the new sport BASE Jumping and starts the sequential BASE number award system we still use today. Carl and his wife Jean also published the very first BASE magazine. Carl was killed jumping in Norway by hitting a outcropping in freefall. (No one saw it, but that’s how it figures). The BASE community is stunned by his death and some say the progression of BASE jumping, the very thing Carl loved and nurtured, was set back as a result of his death. In any case most American BASE jumpers shied away from Norway for the next ten years or so.”

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.