Once a year, on the third Saturday in October ("Bridge Day"), permission to__________has explicitly been granted at the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia. The New River Gorge Bridge deck is 876 feet (267 m) above the river. An object dropped from the deck will hit the water in 8.8 seconds. This annual event attracts about 450 _______ers, and nearly 200,000 spectators. If the conditions are good, in the six hours that it is legal, there may be over 800 jumps. For many skydivers who would like to try _________, this will be the only fixed object from which they ever jump. On 21 October 2006, veteran Brian Lee Schubert of Alta Loma, California was killed jumping from the New River Gorge Bridge during Bridge Day activities. His parachute opened late and he plummeted to his death in the waters below. Jumps continued following the recovery of his body.He and his friend Michael Pelkey were the first to make a _______from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in 1966.Fill in
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