Carl Boenish
![Carl Boenish after successful jump from [[Trollveggen]] in 1984 the day before his death.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Boenish_Trollevggen_1984_n2_crop.jpg)
Carl Ronald Boenish ( ; April 3, 1941 – July 7, 1984), considered the father of modern BASE jumping, was an American freefall cinematographer, who in 1978 filmed the first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes.
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