Carl Boenisch
Born: 1941-04-03
Carl Ronald Boenish (April 3, 1941 – July 7, 1984) is widely celebrated as the pioneer of modern BASE jumping, an extreme sport that combines skydiving with parachuting from fixed objects. In 1978, Boenish made headlines by capturing the first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes. These ...
