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Russian Extreme Project History
The Outdoor Adventure named the Russian Extreme Project aims to lead worldwide unique actions and expeditions of obviously expressed extreme character with the purpose of development and popularization of extreme kinds of sports in Russia. Author, leader and Project coordinator - Valery Rozov, master of sports in mountaineering, master of sports of the international class in parachute sport, two-times World champion on Skydiving. 1999: November, 1999 Russian Extreme Project Team won World Parachuting Championship (Australia, Melbourne). Skysurfing Gold. 2000: May, 2000 Expedition to Venezuela. Parachute jump from the highest in the world water falls "Angel Falls" (976 m). June, 2000 Norway, western coast (Lissa-fjord). Jumps from fjords. Altitude difference of rocky walls 800 - 900 meters. July 2000 Russian Parachuting Championship. Skysurfing Gold. August, 2000 X-Games (the USA, San Francisco). Skysurfing Silver. 2001: February, 2001 Switzerland. Shooting of 4 television programs for ORT-Channel ("Russian Extreme" broadcast): mountaineering, snowboarding, B.A.S.E.-jumping, wing suit flights in mountains.
April, 2001 the Republic of South Africa, Capetown. Participation in TV company "Šepsi - Cola" ("Mountain Dew") countercommercial filming plotted on "Russian Extreme Project" expeditions documentary. July, 2001 Spain, Granada. World Parachuting Championship (the Second World Airgames). Skysurfing Silver. July, 2001 Switzerland. Wingsuit jump (the highest in Europe) from the most known and the most extended (almost 2000 m) Eiger - North Wall in the Alps. The exit point - 3250 m. August, 2000 Malaysia International Championship of XTREME SKYDIVE, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. BASE-jumping from Twin-Towers ("Petronas"), the highest world 451-m skyscraper. September, 2001 Norway. Wingsuit jumping from Troll Wall, the one of the most complicated rocky wall in the world. Altitude difference (vertical and hanging in places) - 1600 m. 2002: February, 2002 Mexico. For the first time Russian jumpers had a several parachute jumps under the ground - into "Sonato de las Golondrinas"- one of the deepest (350 m) vertical karstic cave discovered in the world.
September, 2002 Project development of a new telecasting studio and new television programme “My Crazy Friends”. September, 2002 World Parachuting Cup (Austria, Vienna). Skysurfing Gold.
December, 2002 Barbados Island. “My Crazy Friends” programme’s shooting. The plot was meeting Fedor Konyuhov after his single crossing Atlantic Ocean on a rowboat. December, 2002 Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. B.A.S.E. jumps from the highest skyscraper in the world Twin Towers ("Petronas") of 451m altitude difference in the frameworks of World B.A.S.E. jumping Championship. 2003: February, 2003 “My Crazy Friends” programme’s four editions shooting (France - Italy): B.A.S.E.-jumping, rope-jumping, ice-climbing, mountaineering. Wingsuit jumps out a helicopter above Petit Dru summit. April, 2003 High-speed crossing of Atlantic Ocean on a maxi-catamaran called “Scarlet Sails” (It’s 31 m long, and its mast is 33 m high) together with Fedor Konyukhov. April, 2003 Mt. Everest, Nepal. Documentary film "The Best gift for Queen" devoted to the 50th anniversary of Everest conquest. The film crew spent a week at Everest base camp and ascended Khumbu ice-fall. May, 2003 Continuation of the film "The Best gift for Queen" shooting (London, England). June, 2003 Moscow B.A.S.E. Īpen Ąir Festival. Final record B.A.S.E. jumps of 26 jumpers from Ostankinskaya television tower.
August, 2003 Russian Parachuting Championship (Stupino). Skysurfing Gold. September, 2003 World Parachuting Championship (France, Gap). Skysurfing Gold. September 2003 France, Grenoble area. B.A.S.E.-jumps in mountains, wingsuit B.A.S.E. -jumps, a parachute jump from the plane on one of French tops of the size like a football field, vertically breaking in all sides. We rigged our parachutes right on the top and then made B.A.S.E.-jumps into a valley. 2004 April, 2004 Kamchatka. Russian Extreme Project led a joint action with Russian Heli-Boarding Club and made wingsuit flights along volcanos at midget altitudes.
October, 2004 China. Shanghai. International BASE jumping show. Jumps from the highest skyscraper of China Jin Mao of 421 m (the fourth highest skyscraper in the world). The exit point - 340 m.
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