Groundrush by Simon Jakeman
Working on a building site in the city of London is not an easy way to make a living. For one thing you need to have a head for heights, but that didn't present a problem to Simon Jakeman who spent most of his spare time falling through the sky at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour with a parachute for safe landing. When, together with two friends, he leapt at dawn from an overhanging rock at the top of Cheddar Gorge - some 1,600 feet short of the safety limit for opening a parachute and five seconds to impact in the event of a malfunction - it ended disastrously for two of them. Undeterred, Jake went on t perform ever more daring leaps - in the dark from a 1,000-foot television mast and from the thirty-ninth floor of a Barbican tower block. The quest for the blissful freedom to live the present moment, the 'now of Zen philosophy, and a dangerous adrenaline addiction made it almost impossible for him to stop...Groundrush is a terrifying, often moving, sometimes funny exploration of the relationship of risk to fear - a test of Zen in action at the extreme most of us would not dare approach.
Simon Jakeman was born in London in 1959 and made his first parachute jump as a member of a commando unit in the Territorial Army. He has since made over 1,200 jumps and is a gold medalist in competition formation freefall. He has travelled widely in Europe and North Africa and now lives in California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224035347 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224035347 |
| Title | Groundrush |
| Author | Simon Jakeman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Other printed item |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1992-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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