Chris McNamara Shares “The Last Jump”

Apr 28, 2015

In a video for Toyota’s 2015 4Runner #KeepItWild campaign, famous rock climber Chris McNamara shares a memorable adventure of the last time he ever went base jumping. In the story he tells that one day a few years back, he spent the day with one of his climbing partners scouting out the perfect place to make a jump in a canyon. The following morning, they got ready and took the jump from their pre-selected location only for Chris, something went terribly wrong.

As soon as he jumped, he could feel that his trajectory was off and that the wind resistance was pulling him in the completely wrong direction from where he had planned to land. He was instead, heading right towards a cliff band with no way of steering himself away from it. Luckily for Chris, he was able to just barely make the cliff band, but he decided then and there that this experience officially marked the time for him to retire from this extreme sport.

Hear him tell the full story in the video above and keep checking back for more stories in the #KeepItWild series.