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This Is What a 4,000-Foot Monte Brento BASE Jump Looks Like

Monte Brento, in northern Italy, looms 5,000 feet above the Sarca Valley, and it was here, last September, that photographer Sebastian Wahlhuetter, skydiver Fred Haidegger, and their team had convened. The goal: a 4,000-foot, 10-second BASE jump. The trouble: Cruddy conditions had forced them to retreat down the mountain on their first attempted ascent. Even had they made it up, “you couldn’t…