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Parachuting

"Sunshine Superman" tells the story of Carl Boenish and his team of filmmaker-jumpers, including his wife, Jean Boenish.

A new documentary chronicles the inventor of BASE jumping

Sports

The recent deaths in Yosemite National park of two BASE jumpers has brought new attention to this extreme sport. In an odd twist of fate, a new documentary released this week chronicles the adventures and innovations of Carl Boenish, the inventor of BASE jumping, who also died during a jump.

The Changing Mission of the All-American Paratroopers

The World

Daredevil Flies Into Rio de Janeiro Wearing a Wingsuit

Sports

Baumgartner’s Jump and Other Skydiving Daredevils

Arts, Culture & Media

Will the Toulouse Shootings Affect the French Presidential Race?

The Mann Gulch Tragedy: 50 Years Later

Steve Curwood talks with Laird Robinson, a former Smokejumper and assistant to Norman Maclean on his book Young Men & Fire, about the blow-up wildfire that killed 13 Smokejumpers in Mann Gulch, Montana, fifty years ago this week.

Lewis & Clark Trail

The Blackfeet Nation produces some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. Producer Barrett Golding traveled the Lewis & Clark Trail for its 200th anniversary, and he ran into one crew of Blackfeet smokejumpers in Idaho’s Clearwater Forest as they prepared for work.