Base Jumpers Tangle Parachutes and Miraculously Recover

(Contact licensing@ for licensing/usage info.) This takes place in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona The plan was for jumper 1 to jump from an upper exit and flyby a lower exit where a second jumper would take off. Free fall would separate the two jumpers, and then jumper 1 would do a 360 turn down and around 2. Unfortunately, jumper 1 miss judged his turn and hit 2, causing a dangerous parachute wrap nearly 200 feet over a boulder field. The collision caused them to rotate around each o
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