A British guy has smashed the Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude ski-BASE jump, jumping 18,753 feet off a Himalayan peak. Who set the record for the highest ski-BASE jumping off a ...

Copper Peak is the tallest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere. It's 24-stories high, and has a vertical drop of 364 feet. The jump can launch skiers brave enough to tackle it up to 500 feet.

Video cameras record the distance of each jump and then the distance is translated into distance points. A ski jumper earns style points on a scale of 0 to 20 from five judges, and the highest and ...