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Michael Pelkey
Michael Pelkey (born 1940) and Brian Schubert (born June 23, 1940, died October 21, 2006) are considered among the first fixed object jumpers.
==El Capitan jump==
On 24 July 1966 Pelkey and Brian Schubert, two 26-year-old skydivers from Barstow, California, made the first parachute jumps from the top of the El Capitan mountain in Yosemite National Park. El Capitan is among the world's tallest sheer monoliths, ascending more than 900m (3000 ft) straight up from Yosemite Valley. It is the second-highest unbroken cliff in the world, the highest being Mt. Thor on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.
In 1980, the idea of fixed object jumping was expanded by Carl Boenish into the concept of BASE jumping (Buildings Antennae, Spans, and Earthen objects), including an exclusive club made up of those who made at least one jump from each of the four categories. Members of this club are awarded a number based on the date of their qualification. The sport of BASE jumping, practiced worldwide today and one of the original extreme sports, was inspired in part by Pelkey and Schubert's El Capitan jump.
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