Russia holds precision skydiving match in Arctic: Video
Head-spinning footage shows Russian and Belarusian daredevil paratroopers defy the odds and freezing Arctic temperatures as they compete in a death-defying precision skydiving competition.
The footage was captured by cameras attached to competitors as they attempted the improbable task of diving from a chopper on to a tiny target on a patch of ice floating near the North Pole.
“It's a very specific feeling,” RT quoted the winner, Valentin Prokopiev, as saying on Monday. “The horizon is a bit dislocated and it seems like the planet is spinning. But it's amazing, I did it for the first time in my life and I won.”
“It’s a unique event, for the first time in history such competitions are carried out so close to the North Pole. But despite extreme temperatures and other hardships, as you can see, the athletes are doing just fine,” said the competition judge.
Paratroopers from Russia’s Collective Rapid Reaction Force and the Armed Forces of Belarus are currently engaged in search-and-rescue drills at Russia’s Barneo base, which is located on a floe close to the North Pole.
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