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A bridge over the river -- fly!

By W. H. "Chip" Gross
ESPNOutdoors.com

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. -- It's the most extreme of the extreme sports: BASE jumping. One day each year -- always on the third Saturday of October -- West Virginia invites parachutists to take the leap from the state's New River Gorge Bridge, the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere. BASE jumpers respond by the hundreds, coming not only from almost every state in the nation, but as many as a dozen foreign countries. "We usually have 450 jumpers and some 150,000 spectators attend, ...

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