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# Watch BASE Jumpers Set a New World Record by Diving Off The Tallest Building on Earth

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## 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.”

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