Record holder for highest BASE jump dies in the Himalayas
Russian BASE jumper Valery Rozov who set a world record by jumping off Mount Cho Oyu from 25,262 feet died in a wingsuit accident in the Himalayas on Saturday. The 52-year-old jumped from 22,349-foot-high Mount Ama Dablam in the Everest region when the accident occurred. In July, he had become the first person to jump off Peru's highest peak HuascarÃ¡n.