Valery Rozov, 48, reaches speeds up to 125 mph in a specially designed wingsuit. 
 
 Russian daredevil Valery Rozov leaps from the north side of Mt. Everest at 7,220 meters above sea level May 5 to claim a world record for world's highest BASE jump. (Photo: Red Bull/YouTube) 
 
 Valery Rozov, a Russian daredevil, claimed a world base jumping record in a leap off the north face of Mount Everest in a special wingsuit earlier this month. 
 
 Red Bull, which sponsored the feat, released harrowing video of the May 5 jump on Wednesday. 
 
 The feat was timed to mark the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of the world's most famous mountain. 
 
 Rozov, 48, claimed the record for the world's highest-ever base jump, at 7,220 meters above sea level. 
 
 In the special wingsuit, he glided for a full a minute in the thin mountain air, reaching speeds up to 125 mph, before landing at a glacier at 5950 meters. 
 
 "Because the cliff at the top was not very high, the initial moments of the leap in the rarified high altitude air were the most critical phase," according to Red Bull's website. "Rozov needed more time than usual in the thin air to transition from freefall to flying." 
 
 Rozov, who has made over 10,000 jumps, planned the jump for two years. It took four days to climb from base camp to the jump location, assisted by a team of four Sherpas. 
 
 "Only when I got back home did I see how hard it was for me both physically and psychologically," Rozov said. 
 
 In previous stunts, Rozov jumped into an active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Fast East in 2009. In 2012, in a warmup for the Mount Everest leap, he jumped from 6,420 meters from Shivling in the Himalayas. 
 
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 Valery Rozov, 52, an acclaimed daredevil, was pursuing a “seven summits” quest — base jumping from the highest mountains on all seven continents. 
 
 He was jumping from Ama Dablam, a 6,812-meter-high (22,349-feet-high) mountain in the Everest region when the incident occurred. 
 
 “He died while descending on Saturday,” Mingma Gelu Sherpa, from Seven Summits Club that organized his expedition, said. “We have sent helicopters and are trying hard to bring his body back.” 
 
 It is still unclear how the accident happened. 
 
 Rozov set a new world record in 2013 for the highest-ever base jump when he leaped from Changstse, a peak in the Everest massif towering at 7,220 meters in a specially-designed wingsuit. 
 
 He broke his own record three years later by jumping from a height of 7,700 meters on Mount Cho Oyu. 
 
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 KATHMANDU: A renown Russian base jumper was killed while wingsuiting on Mt Ama Dablam (6,814m) in the Mt Everest region. 
 
 According to Mingma Gelu Sherpa, managing director at the Kathmandu-based Seven Summit Adventure, Valery Rozov, 52 was killed in a wingsuit flight from Mt Ama Dablam on Saturday. “The Russian extreme sports star died after crashing into a cliff while he jumped from the mountain in a wingsuit,” an official at the company which organised an expedition to Mt Ama Dablam quoted the eyewitnesses as saying. 
 
 Rozov was an extremely experienced wingsuiter as he made the highest ever base jump from an altitude of 7,700m on Mt Cho-Oyu in 2016 as well as on Mt Everest from an altitude of 7,220m in 2013. He also summited Mt Kilimanjaro (5,895m), the highest point in Africa and then jumped from the top of the Western Breach Wall (5,460m). 
 
 Rozov is also the first adventurer to skydive into a Volcano Crater, his personal webpage read. 
 
 A helicopter with a rescue team was sent to mountain region to airlift his body to Kathmandu on Sunday morning, Sherpa said. His dead body was brought down to Lukla this afternoon, added Sherpa. 
 
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– Leaping from a 22,349-foot-high mountain proved to be as dangerous as it sounds for Valery Rozov: The Russian base jumper died Saturday in an accident on Himalayan peak Ama Dablam. The AFP reports Rozov's death came while he was undertaking a "seven summits" quest that involved base jumping from each continent's highest peak. Ama Dablam is located in the Everest region. As for Everest, he had previously conquered it. USA Today reported on his 2013 feat, which involved him jumping from its north face at 23,688 feet in a custom wingsuit and hitting a speed of 125mph before landing on a glacier at 19,521 feet. The Washington Post notes it took four days to climb to the exit point, where the temperature was zero degrees Fahrenheit. The jump was one that took Rozov two years to prepare for and set a record that he broke three years later when jumping from Mount Cho Oyu along the China-Nepal border at an even higher 25,250 feet. As for what took the 52-year-old's life on Saturday, the Himalayan Times quotes someone with ties to his expedition as saying he crashed into a cliff during a jump. His body was reportedly recovered by helicopter the next day. Red Bull, which had partnered with Rozov since 2004, notes that he leaves behind a wife and sons. It characterized him as "strong in spirit, professional, modest, full of energy, an eternal dreamer who was forever burning with new ideas and projects." (Read about another daredevil—one who climbed Everest in shorts.)