Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall
Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall

I highly recommend this book if you like stories of adventures and personal struggles. When I got this book I was just curious to read what a BASE jumper had to say because I was getting into parkour, had just jumped off an eight feet high wall (and yes, I had started as a couch potato), and was left thinking: “I wonder how great it would feel to fall thousands of feet!” Moreover, the subtitle “A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall” got to me, since I liked being in situations where I was constantly in fear, like being on the edge of a Manhattan high rise, or being in the bushes surrounded by ‘enemy’ paintballers, or hurtling down a mountain on skis. What I hadn’t realized was how much more this book was a treat.
The book tells a tale of a person’s personal struggles. Struggles of being alone, struggles of a new life with very little money, struggles of trying not to get the parents worried, and the tremendous personal endeavors involved in lifting oneself out of all this and pursuing one’s dreams (of course, it tells a lot more, including the psychology of BASE jumping, but let me not give away more) — these struggles strike a personal cord, for me, and I like how Mr. Dedijer has verbalized how he felt, and the fact that he has verbalized at all, for that made me realize that it’s okay to want to talk. The things that I read in this book opened up new areas of reading, for me, into extreme sports psychology, and it has enabled me to describe the joys of engineering. I must say, as a poor, hungry graduate student I always keep a copy of this book in my backpack, especially since it has uplifted my spirits during some of my worst personal times.
The first time that I read this book it was just a good story — a good yarn. The second time, it was right after my first (and so far, only) tandem skydive, and that is when I realized things that I had read but not truly understood till then. After a bit of reflection on my own thoughts and experiences that led to, transpired during, and came after my skydive I read the book again, and I appreciated it still more, enjoying the honesty and the humor and the harsh realities. I am glad I had this book of personal transformation when I was going through my own transformation as I discovered the joys that I derived from extreme sports. So far I have lost count of how many times I have read the book, but if I ever get a BASE number I would like to read this book again, not only to see if Mr. Dedijer had written more of his feelings that I had missed, but also to read it from a fellow practitioner’s perspective.
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Base 66: A Story of Fear, Fun, and Freefall Overview
BASE 66 is the true, nerve-wracking account of three young skydivers and their quest for membership in the most select extreme sports club on earth: The BASE club. In order to become a full-fledged member, Jevto Dedijer, Bernard Poirier, and Scott Elder had to parachute from the top of a building, an antenna tower, a bridge and a cliff, and survive to tell the story—a feat only some 800 adrenaline addicted people have succeeded in doing.
In BASE 66, Jevto Dedijer tells the tale of his hunger for the ultimate adrenaline rush. He and his companions shared several near death experiences while traveling across Europe with their parachutes and beer in Bernard’s dented Renault 4.
They were pioneers in a sport so dangerous that several of their fellow BASE jumpers died in action.
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