In 1999, parachutist Jan Davis fell to her death at Yosemite's El Capitan after her parachute failed to open.

In 1999, parachutist Jan Davis fell to her death at Yosemite's El Capitan after her parachute failed to open.


 

She leapt from 3200 ft in protest to the death of a man who parachuted off the same peak and drowned in the river below, trying to flee rangers

WATCH VIDEO FOOTAGE 







Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Execution Method That is The Definition Of Cruel And Unusual Death By Gibbet

Image
Execution Method That is The Definition Of Cruel And Unusual Death By Gibbet Gibbeting was the practice of locking criminals in human-shaped cages and hanging them up for display in public areas as a warning to others. The gibbet itself refers to the wooden structure from which the cage was hung.  In some cases, people were already executed prior to being gibbeted. But in other cases, they were still alive and left to die of exposure and starvation. Immobile and ghastly while alive — and reeking once dead — people who were gibbeted were haunting to behold. The Medieval origin of gibbeting is often overlooked due to the popularity of the punishment in 1740s Britain. Nonetheless, many people before then were sentenced to die by being trapped in this torturous contraption. Leaders of Germany’s Anabaptist movement in Münster were gibbeted in 1536, and the steel cages are still on display to this day. The United Kingdom also has gibbets...
Read more

This is Grigori Perelman, a mathematician who refused to accept a fields medal and the $1,000,000 prize

Image
This is Grigori Perelman, a mathematician who refused to accept a fields medal and the $1,000,000 prize  In 2002, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman published the first of three groundbreaking papers offering a proof for the famous Poincaré conjecture, one of the toughest unsolved problems in math.  He was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in 2006 and 1M reward from the Clay Mathematics Institute- he refused to accept both. Grigori Perelman. Winner of the Fields Medal (one of the most honorable awards in mathematics). And winner of a million dollars for solving the "Poincaré Conjecture", one of the seven problems of the millennium. He rejected both awards and currently lives a simple life, isolated from the mathematical community, yet he is one of the greatest minds of this century. Why did Grigori Perelman refuse $1 million? According to Interfax, Perelman refused to accept the Millennium prize in July 2010.  He considered the...
Read more

In 2000, a notorious child serial killer from Pakistan, Javed Iqbal, was sentenced to be strangled to death with an iron chain, then his corpse to be cut up into 100 small pieces

Image
  In 2000, a notorious child serial killer from Pakistan, Javed Iqbal, was sentenced to be strangled to death with an iron chain, then his corpse to be cut up into 100 small pieces and his body dissolved in acid in front of the parents of his victims. Javed Iqbal Mughal  (1961 – 8 October 2001) was a Pakistani serial killer and child molester who confessed to the sexual abuse and murder of 100 young boys, ranging in age from 6 to 16. His victims were strangled, dismembered, and then dissolved in acid to destroy any evidence At his trial, Iqbal was found guilty and sentenced to death, with his execution to take place in front of the victims' parents and be conducted in the same manner that he killed the boys. However, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider later decided against this. Iqbal died by suicide before any sentence could be carried out. A Notorious Criminal's Fate In...
Read more