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Watch record-breaking BASE jump from world's tallest building
Jolie Lee
USA TODAY Network
Two French skydivers jumped off the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet set a new Guinness World Record for tallest BASE jump from a building, with their leap this week. The Burj Khalifa is 2,700 feet tall, standing more more than half a mile tall.
BASE jumping refers to jumping off stationary objects and is an acronym for these objects: building, antenna, span and Earth (such as a cliff).
Before the jump Monday, the duo practiced for a week jumping off a mountain near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, which is almost the same height as the Burj Khalifa, according to the Guinness World Record website.
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