Carl Boenish

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Carl Boenish (b. April 3 1941 d. July 7 1984) considered the father of modern BASE jumping, was a freefall cinematographer, who in 1978 filmed the first jumps from El Capitan to be made using ram-air parachutes and freefall tracking technique, which effectively define modern BASE jumping. These jumps were repeated - not as a publicity exercise or as a movie stunt - but as a true, recurring recreational activity. These were the jumps that popularised BASE jumping more widely among parachutists, likely because Carl filmed them and presented the footage exceptionally well. Carl died in a jump off the Troll Wall in Norway.

Among his freefall cinematography works were the 1969 John Frankenheimer parachuting film classic The Gypsy Moths, starring Burt Lancaster and Gene Hackman, and a National Geographic Explorer segment on jumps from El Capitan, mentioned above.

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