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06th Jul 2015

Video: Two adrenaline junkies BASE jumping off Barcelona hotel is as crazy as it sounds

We'd need a stiff drink and a change of underwear after doing this

Alan Loughnane

We’d need a very stiff drink and a change of underwear after doing this…

Our friends at Epic TV are on a roll.

A few months back, they jumped off the world’s highest climbing wall, last week they had a real-life Bond stunt in the Alps and this time they’re leaping off a hotel in downtown Barcelona.

We find even the stairs to JOE Towers can be an arduous task sometimes, especially when we haven’t had our morning coffee, but their trek up the side of the building is a sphincter tightener.

We’re not sure if climbing the side of a building and jumping off is strictly legal (we have our hotshot young lawyer checking it out for us), but it is nevertheless impressive.

To paraphrase Man About Dog, “there’s balls on them base jumpers like bengali tigers”.

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