Daredevils including Austria’s Felix Baumgartner will jump off a 73-storey hotel next week as part of a skydiving festival — marking the first time the sport is allowed in Singapore, organisers said on Friday.
Baumgartner and three American members of the aerobatics exhibition team called the Red Bull Air Force will be showcasing their skydiving feats next Friday until Sunday.
Base is an acronym for buildings, antennas, spans and earth.
Baumgarner (35) holds the world records for highest parachute jump, when he leaped off the 88-storey Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur in 1999, and lowest jump, from the 29-metre tall statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro.
In June, Baumgartner jumped off the world’s highest bridge in southern France.
Singapore has lifted bans on bungy jumping and bartop dancing as part of a drive to change the perception that it is safe, but boring. – Sapa-DPA