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Red Bull Aces final aerial battle

Red Bull ACES

The Race: Wingsuit 4 Cross Racing

Finals day. Single elimination. Lose, you’re grounded. Win, you stay in. Catch this ultimate, head-to-head, final four flight to determine who claims the first ever Wing Suit 4 Cross Racing Crown.

52 of the world’s top wingsuit flyers descended on Oakdale, California, two hours east of San Francisco, for Red Bull Aces, the first-ever side-by-side wingsuit racing event.

Created by Red Bull Air Force pilot Luke Aikins, flyers will compete head-to-head in a high speed slalom race in the sky, where they’ll weave between four gates, staggered at thousand-foot intervals between 6,500-3,500 feet. Check out the best action from the final day, where the first-ever wingsuit 4-cross champion is crowned!

The Revolution: Wingsuit 4 Cross Racing

Wingsuit 4 Cross Racing

Red Bull ACES / Episode 2

The fifty-two best wingsuit athletes on planet earth square off to sweat the details, test their limits and achieve the impossible. The athletes aren’t just flying wing suits. The revolution is racing: Wingsuit 4 cross!

To race well, you’ve got to train. But how do you start training for a race when there’s never been one like that before?

That was the dilemma facing some of the best wingsuit pilots in the world at the first Red Bull Aces 4 Cross event. Given the event’s inaugural status, director Luke Aikins very smartly scheduled a training day before competition actually began, to give the pilots the chance to get a feel for going around the course.

Daring wingsuit flyers compete in this first-ever competition in Red Bull Aces

Daring wingsuit flyers compete in this first-ever competition

52 of the world’s top wingsuit flyers descended on Oakdale, California, two hours east of San Francisco, for Red Bull Aces, the first-ever side-by-side wingsuit racing event.

Created by Red Bull Air Force pilot Luke Aikins, Red Bull Aces was split into a series of elimination heats of four wingsuit flyers, who were transported by plane up to 8,000 feet. From there, they jumped and flew through four gates, staggered at thousand-foot intervals between 6,500-3,500 feet.

Experience the world of Red Bull like you have never seen it before. With the best action sports clips on the web and YouTube exclusive series, prepare for your “stoke factor” to be at an all time high.

World’s Highest BASE Jump – Flying from Mt. Everest

World’s Highest BASE Jump – Flying from Mt. Everest. Nearly 60 years to the day after the first ascent up Mount Everest, Russian extreme sport star Valery Rozov (48) flew off the north face of Mount Everest – the world’s highest BASE jump ever – 7220 meters (23,688ft) above sea level.

The ascent began on the Chinese side on the famous north route. It took him four days to climb from the base camp to the jumping location. At precisely 2:30 p.m. local time he leaped despite adverse weather conditions with temperatures -18 Celsius.

Because the cliff at the top was not very high, the initial moments of the leap in the rarified high altitude air were the most critical phase. Rozov needed more time than usual in the thin air to transition from freefall to flying. After that he flew for nearly a full minute at speeds of about 200 km/h (125 mph) along the north face before he landed safely on the Rongbuk glacier – at an altitude of 5,950 meters.

“Only when I got back home did I see how hard it was for me both physically and psychologically,” said Rozov after getting home to Moscow. “When you look at the videos you realize that it took a lot longer than usual to get from falling to flying.”

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