Jesse Hall

Colorado native Jesse Hall participated in the first urban ski-BASE jump last year in Reno. Skiing off a ramp on the 39th floor of the Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Hall's ski got caught in his parachute as he attempted a double back flip.

"I knew right away I was in trouble, but there was no time to panic. It was like, 'Do everything you can to minimize the situation. Don't run into a building, don't run into a streetlight, don't run into a light pole.'

"I came very close to a lot of things. I almost hit the building first, then I almost hit another building and then some streetlights. Then I almost hit the building I jumped off (originally). I was kind of surrounded by everything.

"If I'd hit the building, the canopy wouldn't have collapsed. But it would've been a pretty hard blow. I would've been dragged down the building and hit pretty hard on the ground. My life was definitely on the line.

"After I landed, I heard sirens and people yelling. I tore the ACL in my right knee. I didn't jump for probably three weeks. It was hard being inactive."

Jeb Corliss

What it feels like to fly in a wingsuit:

"I wouldn't use the word scary. You're definitely nervous before you step out of the helicopter because you're worried you might go head down. But once you step out and didn't (mess) up the exit, you're back in your element.

"You're flying. You know the dreams you had as a kid of flying? That's what it is. You can decide, 'I'm going to fly left, I'm going to fly right. I'm going up, I'm going down.' Even though you're not really going up, it feels like it.

"It's an absolutely spectacular sensation. There's nothing in life that feels what that feels like. There's no way for a person who does it to describe it to a person who doesn't.

"It's like trying to describe love to a person. You have to experience love to understand it."