Who needs a plane to go skydiving when you've got a canyon?

Extremely extreme.
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Sophie Hirsh
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Who needs a plane to go skydiving when you've got a canyon?
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Every year, professional slackliner Sketchy Andy Lewis weaves together the Mothership Spacenet – an intimidating web of slacklines and elastic bands – about 400 feet above a canyon for a shallow skydiving party.

While skydiving from 400 feet sounds way less extreme than from the typical 12,000 feet, the short journey is actually way more intense. Seriously, it looks like these adventurers are plummeting to certain death.

Now we're just wondering: How did they get out of the canyon?

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Sophie Hirsh

Sophie was a Viral Content Intern for the Watercooler channel. More writing and other stuff by Sophie can be found at www.sophiehirsh.com.


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