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Matt Gerdes

Catching up with Matt Gerdes

BY: Lesley Gale

Matt Gerdes has been flying in the open air most of his life. Paragliding, skydiving, speed flying, base jumping… he is the author of the Great Book of BASE, a co-founder of Squirrel wingsuits and loves to take his friends on a flying adventure…

How many skydives, base jumps?

In the past ten years I have made close to 1,000 BASE jumps and around the same amount of skydives.

Other aerial sports you’ve done and to what sort of level?

Over 2,000 hours flying paragliders, since 2000.
Over 1,000 flights in speed flying wings, most sub 10m / 100sqft.

Equipment jumped, and history

My current main canopy is a PD Optimum and I think it’s the perfect solution for wingsuit jumping. Javelin Odyssey is my container.

Base achievements

Still alive after about a thousand jumps!

Favorite base moment

Landing safely at the foot of the Eiger north face with my friend Jimmy. It was my 19th BASE jump and I had 11 skydives at the time.

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Matt Gerdes – September Sessions

Matt Gerdes – September Sessions

Matt Gerdes – September Sessions

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Matt Gerdes

Matt Gerdes tells us:
“BASE Jumping is probably the deadliest and most dangerous sport in existence. It is so dangerous that we actually don’t recommend that you do it. In fact, we honestly think it’s a bad idea. We also think it’s probably the most fun that a human being can have.”

Matt has completed over 1200 safe BASE jumps to date, the vast majority of which being wingsuit flights from alpine cliffs. He has opened many new lines of flight and his videos and BASE book are well known to jumpers around the world, with more than ten years’ experience in the paragliding industry.