Blue Skies Magazine » Omar http://blueskiesmag.com Blue Skies Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:38:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 World’s Highest BASE Jump: Check http://blueskiesmag.com/2010/01/08/worlds-highest-base-jump-check/ http://blueskiesmag.com/2010/01/08/worlds-highest-base-jump-check/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:22:08 +0000 Lara http://blueskiesmag.com/?p=1592 Lots of news covering this jump by Omar Al Hegelan and Nasser Al Neyadi, but this one is my favorite: Man Falls from Burj Dubai – Worlds Tallest Building. Like, whoops, I fell!

Enjoy the video—and particularly MSNBC’s spectacular journalistic reporting of the building’s height as 27,017′ (the smarties at MSNBC changed out the video on us and they’re correct now! – it’s 2,717′):

Some more links to fill up what remains of your Friday workday:
BBC
CBC
Daily Mail

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