California native Andy Lewis celebrated his 900th BASE jump in rip-roaring fashion – by being tossed by fellow daredevils off the dizzying Kuala Lumpur Tower in Malaysia, Barcroft Media reported.
"I obviously wanted to do something special for my 900th jump, so I had a bunch of people crowd-surf me off the tower," Lewis said. "Jumping in a city is always fun, the wind is a little different and there are always people watching, so there is a little bit of outside pressure."
Mind-blowing video from the annual event featuring about 100 jumpers shows the thrill-seeker passed from skydiver to skydiver atop the 1,381-foot tower before being thrown into the abyss.
"I did my first base-jump on my 23rd birthday but I've been learning my whole life – I started learning by watching Disney movies as a kid," he said. "When I was young I was always climbing up things and jumping off. I eventually started slack-lining and that's what got me into skydiving and BASE-jumping."
The video also captured his most daring stunt: Parachuting right into a swimming pool on top of a neighboring building 1,600 feet away – a roughly one-minute flight.
"It's a super-technical jump because the pool is not all that big and the walls at the outside of the building are actually 14 feet higher than the pool, so you have to come at a steep angle," said Lewis, who completed 77 jumps during the event and also served as safety coordinator.
"If you hit the water too hard you'll hit the ground and if you overshoot you'll smash into the walls at the poolside – so it's a very committing jump," he said.
BASE is an acronym for where the skydivers jump from: building, antenna, span and Earth, or cliff.
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