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MUST SEE: Daredevils jump from bridge in West Virginia

Posted at 12:11 PM, Oct 20, 2012
and last updated 2012-10-20 12:40:32-04

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (WTVR) – Check out this unedited video of some of the first base jumpers who leaped from a bridge in West Virginia Saturday morning.

The annual tradition is expected to draw more than 80,000 spectators. The base jumpers plunged off the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

he daredevils have been making the 876-foot dive every year since 1979.