Felix takes over the Torre Mayor

Felix Baumgartner jumps from the 52nd floor of the Torre Mayor in Mexico City.

At 2,240 meters over the sea level lies the ancient Tenochtitlan, better known today as Mexico City, inside it, raises a world class construction and the highest of Latin America: with an altitude of 225 meters , Torre Mayor is considered a top of the line example of modernity and functionality. Envisioned by the genious of architect Everard Zedler, the making of this masterpiece began in 1999 and was finished on 2003 with a crystal front of nearly 30,000 meters.

Admired from several points of the city, the tower has become a majestic vision of all mexicans’ daily life, nevertheless its immense size, today, Felix Baumgartner, Red Bull athlete – the world famous B.A.S.E. jumper known for defying gravity in places, such as, the Christ Statue of Rio de Janeiro, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Mamet Cave in Croatia,  the Panama Channel among others – decided to jump to the emptiness from the 52nd floor of the building and land in the heart of one of the most important avenues of Mexico City: Reforma.

The action took place this monday, January 30th at 12:14 pm when nobody was expecting it, the Austrian rose for the air fulfilling a mortal and opening its parachute with the Red Bull logo ,falling  gently over the traffic circle of Reforma street.

Normally this wouldn’t be a major challenge for Felix, but due to the conditions  that Mexico City presents for its geographical elevation; the freefall and the downward velocity become higher than in any place of the Earth, causing a serious delay on the opening of Felix’s parachute. “I fill very satisfy, it was a complicated jump because I had to manipulate a lot my parachute due to the air conditions, besides the buildings around. Without any doubt it was a very different jump from those I have made before, with a big grade of difficulty.” This was how thousands of transients witnessed the master with which Felix realized its “Mayor Jump”