Few athletes are called legends during their lifetime. In most sports you can count them on one hand. Russian parachutist, base jumper and extreme sportsman Valery Rozov was a true legend, hero and idol. For more than 52 years of his life, he deceived death itself many times, escaping from its bony embrace. However, on November 11, Valery was unable to escape - a wingsuit jump from Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas turned out to be fatal for him.
Meters won
Valery fell in love with the mountains in his youth - he began mountaineering as soon as he entered college. However, conquering heights in itself fascinated the young athlete only at first. As part of the Seven Summits Project in the mid-90s, he climbed several key points in the world, including the summits of Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc and Aconcagua. However, even then rock climbing was not the only hobby of Valery, who had already discovered parachuting. For almost ten years, the extreme sportsman was torn between two hobbies - mountaineering and skydiving. At the same time, Rozov always wanted to climb Mount Rozov along the most difficult path possible. Climbing to the top of Everest with oxygen just to tick a box is not Valery’s style. His passion is to struggle to gain a few meters from a sheer cliff.
Help from the Championship. Valery Rozov
Valery Vladimirovich Rozov (December 26, 1964 – November 11, 2017) – Soviet and Russian mountaineer, Honored Master of Sports in parachuting, BASE jumper, skysurfer.
World champion in parachuting (1999, 2003), winner of the European Championship, World Cup (2002) and X-Games in skysurfing (1998).
World record holder in parachuting (400-way group acrobatics and 100-way wingsuit). The first person to make a parachute jump into an active volcanic crater. The first person to BASE jump from Africa's highest peak, Mount Kibo. Holder of the world record for BASE jump height (7700 meters, Mount Cho Oyu).
The ill-fated antenna
Parachuting in its usual sense also quickly bored Valery, and already in the 90s, when almost no one had heard of BASE jumping in Russia, Rozov became interested in a new, dangerous, but so spectacular and nerve-wracking form of parachuting. And one of his first attempts almost became his last. If we take the English expression BASE-Jumping, then the first part is an abbreviation, short for “building, antenna, bridge, ground” - any self-respecting BASE jumper should jump from these four objects. Valery Rozov, in an effort to close the letter A, wanted to climb onto an antenna in France, but received a severe electric shock. The extreme sportsman spent two months in a Marseille hospital, underwent skin grafts and lost two toes. I had to forget about mountaineering. But Valery’s parachute did not release.
Jump into the volcano
Rozov eventually added the antenna to his track record, and more than one. However, this is not what made him famous. The world community recognized the athlete from Russia in 1998, when he won the prestigious X-Games competition in the discipline of skysurfing - a kind of Olympics for extreme sports enthusiasts. But what is extreme sports without a touch of madness? Valery Rozov had been nurturing an idea for a long time that no one in the world had ever brought into reality before, and in the end he decided... to jump, dressed in a wing suit, with a parachute into the mouth of an active volcano. “If there were problems with the canopy when opening the parachute, I could have fallen into a boiling acid puddle,” Valery described his jump. However, the volcano is not the only achievement of the extreme sportsman. Every day he tried to discover something new for himself, because a day without a jump was wasted. This is how the highest peak in Africa, Mount Ulvetanna in Antarctica, the Himalayas, appeared on Rozov’s track record.
"I am a safe athlete"
Athletes involved in such sports tease death every time, and Valery understood this very well. He himself came close to death more than once, but later laughed it off: “I have 11 thousand parachute jumps. One and a half thousand cliff jumps. In percentage terms, everything is great. “I’m a safe athlete in this regard,” said the one whose parachute opened at a distance of ten meters from the ground, the one who almost drowned in an icy mountain river, but got caught on a snag with the straps, the one who, due to an unsuccessful helicopter landing, almost fell along with the helicopter, the pilot and all the equipment into the abyss. In a word, someone who has looked death in the eye more than once, but could look away and continue doing extreme sports.
Life in exchange for a record
In October 2016, Valery Rozov set a world record for the highest BASE jump, starting his flight at 7,700 meters above sea level from the Himalayan peak of Cho Oyu on the border of China and Nepal. The athlete climbed to this peak for three weeks in order to, after spending 90 seconds in the air, record an incredible record that is unlikely to be repeated by anyone in the coming years. But Valery’s gaze still aimed upward, he was sure that 7700 was not the limit, he was looking for a place for higher jumps. However, Rozov was not destined to improve the record. The Himalayas gave him a remarkable achievement, but in exchange took his life. During the jump from Mount Ama Dablam, something went wrong and Valery crashed. The mountains and sky took him to themselves...
In recent years, Valery Rozov has been interested in base jumping. In a special wing suit, he flew from a volcano in the Kilimanjaro massif, from a mountain in the Himalayas, and in October 2016 he set a world record by making the world's highest jump from Cho Oyu (Himalayas, 8201 m) from a height of 7700 m above sea level. Valery Rozov was the organizer of numerous base projects around the world. He participated in the filming of television programs about sports and travel on central channels, thanks to which he became known in wide circles.
“This is a blow to health, people begin to think worse. Memory is lost. This boost has an effect on the brain. Even after At an altitude of 7000 meters, I then take two or three months to get in shape. Not sports - just getting back to feeling normal. But big sport does not bring health at all. Whether you ski or climb Everest. This is self-torture. Beyond the body’s resources,” Rozov said in an interview with Sport Express in February 2016.
I have three professional careers in three different fields, and I continue to keep myself in good shape in each of them. This takes a lot of time and money. It's hard. Really.
The two-time world champion in parachuting posted his last video on Instagram a month ago while jumping in the Swiss mountains.
The death of Russian base jumper Valery Rozov during an expedition on Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas is a great loss for the entire global parachute community. The head coach of the Russian national parachuting team, Vadim Niyazov, told the R-Sport agency.
Famous Russian athlete Valery Rozov died in Nepal after a wing jump from Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas. The climber, who also practiced skysurfing and base jumping, began his flight at 7,700 meters above sea level from a Himalayan peak, spending one and a half minutes in free fall. After that, he landed on a glacier at an altitude of six thousand meters above sea level.
Since 2009, Valery Rozov began, figuratively speaking, a new ascent to an unknown peak: dressed in a special suit in the form of a solid wing, he made jumps from gigantic heights. In particular, the history of extreme sports includes such achievements as the jump from Shivling (6540 m) and from Mount Changze (7220 m). In 2016, Rozov set a new world record by jumping from the Cho Oyu mountain peak in the Himalayas. The climb to this peak took three weeks and the flight time was 90 seconds. The suit was made from special parachute fabric, custom-made by a Russian base jumper in the USA.
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As the coach of our team noted, Rozov is one of the symbols of Russian parachuting. He was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports. At one time he was a world champion. For the last 10 years, Rozov has been involved in mountaineering and base jumping; he became interested in extreme projects involving jumping from mountains. Currently, work is underway to search for Rozov’s body, TASS reports. The people who were with him have not yet contacted him.
Valery Rozov was born on December 26, 1964. He was a repeated champion of Russia and international competitions in parachuting, a Russian champion in mountaineering, a winner of the European Championship and the World Cup, and a two-time world champion in parachuting. In 2009, for the first time in history, an athlete jumped with a parachute into the crater of the active Mutnovsky volcano (Kamchatka Peninsula).
Valery Rozov Instagram. Exclusive.
In 2009, Valery Rozov jumped from Elbrus (4650 meters), in 2010 - from the top of Mount Ulvetanna (Antarctica, 2650 m), in 2015 - from Kilimanjaro (5460 meters). In 2015, Rozov set a world record for the highest jump when he attempted from 7,700 meters from Cho Oyu, one of the highest peaks in Asia. In 2017, the athlete was the first in history to make a BASE jump from Mount Huascaran, located in Peru.
“It is with deep sorrow that we announce the tragic death of the athlete and our friend Valery Rozov during an expedition on Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas, Eastern Nepal. Valery has been a Red Bull athlete since 2004. He has gained international recognition as a highly professional athlete who tirelessly sets himself ever more challenging goals.
You're still worried one way or another. And against the background of this fatigue, the psyche can give very different reactions, polar ones - from “ahh, burn it all with fire, I’ll jump and come what may,” ending with what you’re worried about empty place: “it’s shallow and short, and the wind is from the wrong direction, and I didn’t see the landing at all.” And you need some kind of informed decision. And I end up using quantitative rather than emotional decision-making methods.
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Valery Rozov was a repeated champion of Russia and international competitions in parachuting. In a wingsuit, he flew from a volcano in the Kilimanjaro massif, from a mountain in the Himalayas. In 2016, he set a world record by making the world's highest jump from Cho Oyu (Himalayas) from an altitude of 7,700 m above sea level.
In 2013, Rozov made a record jump from Everest - from a height of 7220 meters above sea level. The preparation took more than two years, including significant time to select and improve the wingsuit.
Russian climber and base jumper Valery Rozov died in Nepal after jumping from the Himalayan peak of Ama Dablam. This was announced by the head coach of the Russian national parachuting team, Vadim Niyazov. Rozov is a two-time world champion in parachuting, a Russian champion in mountaineering, and a world record holder in parachuting.
“I didn’t have time to open my parachute and hit a rock. This is unofficial information. Jumping from heights of more than 5-6 thousand meters requires a special approach, but Rozov had a lot of experience. Apparently, fatigue after the climb or something else related to altitude had an effect,” he added.
Climber and base jumper from Russia Valery Rozov died in Nepal after jumping from the Himalayan peak of Ama Dablam. The head coach of the Russian national parachuting team, Vadim Niyazov, reported the tragedy to the media.
Valery Rozov is the cause of the accident. Everything that is known.
If I have two problems, I immediately refuse. It's a very psychedelic sport. You are doing fairly simple movements under extreme stress. You'd be surprised how differently people react to the need to jump. Three-quarters of people simply can’t bring themselves to do it.”
He expressed confidence that the deceased athlete will be buried in his native country. “But we have no control over fate; there are no details of the incident yet. We know that he had to make the jump,” Niyazov concluded.
Outstanding Russian extreme sportsman Valery Rozov died in Nepal. According to reports, death occurred during an expedition to the Himalayas. An honored mountaineer and base jumper died in Nepal after jumping in a wingsuit from Mount Ama Dablam. Lenta.ru reported this, citing the athlete’s family. The information was confirmed in the professional community on the social network. The news gained wide resonance among skydivers and extreme sports enthusiasts. “BSBD,” they write under the news of Rozov’s death. The abbreviation stands for “Blue Sky, Black Death.” This is how it is customary in the community to say goodbye to comrades. Mount Ama Dablam has two peaks. The height of the large peak is 6814 meters, the small one - 5563 meters. It is unknown from what height Rozov jumped. It is also unclear what caused the athlete’s death. Valery Rozov was an outstanding Soviet and Russian climber, master of sports. Twice world champion in parachuting (1999, 2003), he set several extreme records in different parts of the planet. He was an Honored Master of Sports in parachuting, skysurfing and base jumping (an extreme sport that uses a special parachute to jump from fixed objects). In October 2017, the athlete updated the world record by jumping from the Himalayan peak Cho Oyu, 8201 meters above sea level. He had been preparing for this jump for three years.
Mountaineer and base jumper Valery Rozov, one of the symbols of Russian parachuting, died in Nepal. 52-year-old Valery crashed while performing a wing jump from Mount Ama Dablam in the Nepalese Himalayas.
Famous Russian athlete Valery Rozov died in Nepal after a wing jump from Mount Ama Dablam in the Himalayas. The climber, who also practiced skysurfing and base jumping, began his flight at 7,700 meters above sea level from a Himalayan peak, spending one and a half minutes in free fall. After that, he landed on a glacier at an altitude of six thousand meters above sea level.
“This man is one of the symbols of Russian parachuting, he was once a world champion, he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports. For the last 10 years, Rozov has been purposefully engaged in base jumping and mountaineering; he became interested in extreme projects with jumping from mountains,” said the head coach of the Russian parachuting team, Vadim Niyazov.
Valery Rozov was born on December 26, 1964. He was a repeated champion of Russia and international competitions in parachuting, a Russian champion in mountaineering, a winner of the European Championship and the World Cup, and a two-time world champion in parachuting. In 2009, for the first time in history, an athlete jumped with a parachute into the crater of the active Mutnovsky volcano (Kamchatka Peninsula).
In recent years, Valery Rozov has been interested in base jumping. In a special wing suit, he flew from a volcano in the Kilimanjaro massif, from a mountain in the Himalayas, and in October 2016 he set a world record by making the world's highest jump from Cho Oyu (Himalayas, 8201 m) from a height of 7700 m above sea level. Valery Rozov was the organizer of numerous base projects around the world. He participated in the filming of television programs about sports and travel on central channels, thanks to which he became known in wide circles.
A couple of days before his death, Russian base jumper Valery Rozov published a video on his social media pages showing an extreme jumper in Chamonix.
Currently, rescuers are working to search for the body; the people who were with Rozov have not yet made contact.
The extreme sportsman jumped in a special aerosuit. With its help, you can control air flows and fly several tens of kilometers along a mountain ridge. On the account of Valery Rozov .
For the first time in a wing suit, he jumped in the Himalayas. Therefore, apparently, he had no doubt that this time there would be no problems either. A man who cannot imagine himself without extreme sports decided to take a new height - almost 7000 meters. What exactly went wrong is not yet known exactly. But according to one version, due to strong winds, the flight path suddenly changed, and.
Vadim Niyazov, head coach of the Russian national parachuting team: “Of course, after hitting an object there was no chance to survive and escape, especially in the highlands, where there are more than 56 thousand meters. But until the last moment we believed that Valera would return.”
Recalling the training, Vadim Niyazov says: Valery always strived for new heights, which were higher each time, and the flights became more and more difficult. Consider his famous jump into an active volcano funnel. He was the first who even decided to do this. Miraculously, Valery Rozov survived after attempting to jump from a high antenna in France. He was severely electrocuted, and the base jumper took several months to recover. But as soon as I got back on my feet, I went back for the thrill. A month before the death of Rozov.
The athlete’s body has already been brought to Kathmandu.
Vladimir Melnikov, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Nepal: “At the moment, all documents are being processed to send the body to Russia. The body will be sent either this evening or tomorrow, depending on how quickly we receive all the certificates.”
Valery Rozova’s wife has already headed to Nepal. The funeral of the famous base jumper, who left behind three children, will take place in Moscow.
Details in the story of the “Emergency” program.