No one has ever skydived over Mt. Everest. If all goes as planned, that will change the first week in October of this year.
A group including two Flagstaff attorneys, Harold Watkins and Louis Diesel, partners in the local law firm of Aspey, Watkins & Diesel, will attempt to become the first to accomplish the feat.
The planned jump will be from an elevation of approximately 29,500 feet above the summit of Mt. Everest, free-falling past the face of the world’s highest peak with a landing on the highest landing zone on the planet. The sky dive will confront both high altitude and extreme cold. The October jump date was chosen to avoid the jet streams that can sometimes reach 200 miles an hour that course across Everest’s summit.
The team that organized and will lead the attempt is comprised of elite international skydivers and mountaineers who have spent more than two years planning the skydive.
Watkins and Diesel are known for pushing the boundaries of adventure having, among other things, flown to the very edge of space in the Russian MIG 25.
