The place
Switzerland's first documented BASE jump was made here in 1990, off a ledge beside the Staubbach falls; the valley now sees around 20,000 jumps a year. Above it, Dean Potter free-soloed the Eiger's Deep Blue Sea in 2008 with a parachute on his back, and in August 2025 Peter Salzmann flew a wingsuit off the north face at 347 km/h, a BASE speed record.
Is it legal? Legal under the Swiss Base Association's rules.
- 7exits to start
- 3more to find
- 8cross-country goals
- 3race tasks
The exits and launches
7 exits you know from the start. 3 more are out there for whoever walks the rim and looks.
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Yellow Ocean
■■■■■The valley's classic: 350 m of rock drop off the east wall, 425 m to the Nose landing, an overhang that gives you time.
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High Ultimate
■■■■■Off the Mürren side over Stechelberg: 330 m of wall, the first 15 m undercut, 720 m to the field.
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The Mushroom
■■■■■High on the Eiger's north face, 3,220 m: 440 m of rock drop, then 1,620 m down to Alpiglen.
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Grindelwald First
■■■■■The meadow by the First gondola's top station, 2,123 m (the operators' "Start First 2150 m"), facing Grindelwald under the Wetterhorn and the Eiger.
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Beatenberg-Amisbühl
■■■■■Interlaken's tandem launch above Lake Thun, 1,299 m (≈ 1,350), facing the town between the lakes, the meadow open for its run (the forest edge beside it): the Höhematte, the meadow in the middle of Interlaken, 730 m down.
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Niesen Süd
■■■■■The south launch under the Niesen's summit, 2,282 m (the Air Base Flyers' chart: Süd, 2,265 m, south-east to south-west; careful in a north wind), five minutes from the funicular's top.
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Männlichen
■■■■■The meadow under the Männlichen's summit, 2,295 m, facing Grindelwald with the Eiger's north face on the right: down past Alpiglen to the paragliders' field at Grund, 1,350 m below.
Cross-country goals
First to the Faulhorn · Amisbühl to the Niederhorn · First to the Eiger · First to the Augstmatthorn · The Niesen to the Harder · First to the Schilthorn · First to the Niesen · The Oberland triangle
