UTTARKASHI, June 15: Russian climber and BASE jumper, Valery Rozov has added another feather to his glittering career in extreme sports by jumping from the top of Shivling, a 6543m mountain in the Gangotri Group of peaks in the Himalayas.
Rozov, a well-known face in the world of BASE jumping, an extreme sports that include skydiving, snowboarding, and cliff-jumping, etc, set a new world-record with a leap from the top of Shivling.
After a 30-day expedition, including a six-day ascent, the 47-year-old Rozov managed to find a perfect take-off spot at 6420m from which he could start his world record attempt.
The Russian landed 2,200m further down on the glacier, just 90 seconds later.
The other expedition members took three days to complete the descent.
“This was my first project in the Himalayas,” said the two-time skydiving world champion after his record-breaking flight. (PTI)
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