--- title: Burj Khalifa BASE Jump World Record Viral Video description: A touching bro-ment canonical: https://time.com/73801/base-jumping-burj-khalifa/ author: Bijan Stephen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-23T15:55:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:02.200Z og:title: Watch BASE Jumpers Set a New World Record by Diving Off The Tallest Building in the World og:description: A touching bro-ment og:url: https://time.com/73801/base-jumping-burj-khalifa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch BASE Jumpers Set a New World Record by Diving Off The Tallest Building in the World twitter:description: A touching bro-ment twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch BASE Jumpers Set a New World Record by Diving Off The Tallest Building on Earth by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Apr 23, 2014 3:55 PM UTC by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Apr 23, 2014 3:55 PM UTC Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet [set a BASE-jumping world record](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD4qsWnjsNU) after hopping from the tip of the Burj Khalifa—all 2,717 feet of it—in a stunt sponsored by the skydiving resort [Skydive Dubai](http://www.skydivedubai.ae/). Along with a peculiarly uncredited cameraman, the bros share a bro-ment as they soar around the building like unusually large gliders, trailed by twin plumes of dramatic red smoke. “People think that you BASE jump because you’re crazy, you like to get scared,” either Fred or Vince said. (From the video, it’s not clear whom.) “But, I mean, we like to fly.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/73801/base-jumping-burj-khalifa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/73801/base-jumping-burj-khalifa/"},"headline":"Watch BASE Jumpers Set a New World Record by Diving Off The Tallest Building on Earth","datePublished":"2014-04-23T15:55:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:02.200Z","description":"A touching bro-ment","url":"https://time.com/73801/base-jumping-burj-khalifa/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Dubai","World Record"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bijan Stephen","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/73801/base-jumping-burj-khalifa/","name":"Watch BASE Jumpers Set a New World Record by Diving Off The Tallest Building on Earth"}}]}] ```