Jeb Corliss was born on March 25,1976 and is an American professional skydiver and BASE jumper.
18 Facts About Jeb Corliss
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Jeb Corliss has jumped from sites including Paris's Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
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Jeb Corliss jumped off a high-diving board at 18 months old and captured live rattlesnakes outside his family's New Mexico home before he was seven.
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Jeb Corliss said he was suicidal throughout his childhood, leading to his interest in BASE Jumping, which ended up leading to his mental health recovery.
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In 1999, Jeb Corliss had a near-fatal BASE jump into the Howick Falls, in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
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In October 2003, Jeb Corliss was teamed to jump with his best friend, Australian BASE jumper Dwain Weston, at the inaugural Go Fast Games.
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Jeb Corliss was to fly under the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, while Weston was meant to pass over it.
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Jeb Corliss had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with Weston's body.
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Jeb Corliss was later permanently banned from the Empire State Building.
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On September 25,2011, Jeb Corliss jumped out of a helicopter at 1,800 meters and glided through a 30 meters wide archway in Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, landing with a parachute on a nearby bridge.
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On January 16,2012, in an accident while proximity flying off Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa, Jeb Corliss broke both ankles, three toes, and a fibula, tore his left Anterior cruciate ligament, and sustained a gash in his skin that required skin grafts to close.
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Jeb Corliss struck his legs approximately halfway between the hip and knee on a rock ledge he was attempting to skim over while aiming at a target balloon.
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Jeb Corliss was airlifted out by the Red Cross Air Mercy Service.
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On September 28,2013, Jeb Corliss made a jump called the "flying dagger".
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Jeb Corliss jumped out of a helicopter wearing a wingsuit and then flew through a narrow "crack" in Mount Jianglang in China.
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Jeb Corliss was the technical adviser for the wingsuit flying stunts featured in the 2015 release Point Break, an action thriller film remake, in which he briefly appears.
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Jeb Corliss was the original host of the Discovery Channel series Stunt Junkies, appearing in 12 episodes, but was fired by Discovery after the surreptitious 2006 attempt to BASE jump the Empire State Building, which was performed against the network's advice.
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Jeb Corliss is a co-founder of 3 Triple 7, a clothing label.