Customer Reviews

Base 66 (Swedish Edition)

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The pictures are great and from what I could translate so is the text. So if the publisher is reading this, how about an English translation. There is too little written on BASE.

Since I first did this review an English copy has been published

If you BASE or ever thought about it get this book

Also look for "Ground Rush" in used book stores between the two there is good information on BASE

Rating has been raised to 4 stars but this is for the English edition

First I have to tell you my background. I'm a skydiver with no background in base jumping. I know very little about the sport and even less about the start of base jumping, since there are no historybooks on this subject.
Jevto Dedijer's describes these first years of basejumping in his book, Base 66, in very exciting way. At that time they used equipment that by todays standards, no one would be caught jumping. Not from an airplane and absolutely not from a 100 meters high object. Jevto and his friends are pioneers in a sport that is as beautiful as it is deadly. BASE 66 takes off by describing how Jevto's skydiving career begins at the young age of 18. What makes him leap of his first BASE object and later makes him change his mind about BASE jumping.
I recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about the first years in basejumping. It's an exciting book and well worth reading.
BSBD

I was delighted to read this book. How can you be so fearless? Is there a recipe? I would suggest you have your book available in English now...

This white-knuckle ride read is a must read for anyone wanting to learn how to live life to the full - and live to tell the tale.

Jevto Dedijer writes about his own daring exploits in a way which made me gasp, feeling as if I myself stood on the brink of a cliff or a tower with nothing but a tiny chute to hang my life on. He puts you right into those chutestraps, creating huge sinking feeling in your belly and a small thought of envy - I wish I had had the guts to what he did.

Read it!