Talk:Per Wimmer

Moved edit from article to talk.
Agree with the "advertisement"-label. This article is most likely written by "Per Wimmer" himself - or his mother. Seems that he didn't get enough attention as a child, and now has a strong need to inflate his rather trivial "achievements". His "rewards" are not well documented - main source is this self-written article on Wikipedia. _Maybe_ he received the award from Harvard, somehow, but I don't get anything when googling it. And he is just piggy-backing on other people and institutions. Just failed to become an astronaut - seems he was afraid of heights... 85.237.234.16 (talk) 09:31, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Significance of tandem skydive?
I don't believe a tandem skydive is noteworthy enough to be included in the article, or at the very least it is inappropriate for it to be leading the article.

Wimmer has claimed on multiple occasions as part of his PR spiel that he made the "first tandem skydive over Mount Everest". In truth he joined an organised group of about 20 wealthy holidaymakers who paid to go on an unusual and very expensive (about £17,000 per person) package holiday to each make a parachute descent in Nepal. About half of them, including Wimmer, jumped as tandem passengers. They were entirely dependent on the skills of those tandem masters and no skilled input was required of them. About half the holidaymakers, having sufficient experience of skydiving, made solo freefall descents and, unlike Wimmer, were reliant on their own skills.

Per Wimmer's descent did not take place "over Mount Everest". It took place some 17.8 miles away from Mount Everest at a location from which Mount Everest was either invisible or barely visible, according to weather conditions. It was not the first ever such descent: far more challenging solo skydiving descents had been carried out previously in the area 4 months earlier in May 2008 by amongst others, Andrew Montriou, Ben Wood, David Wood and Nigel Gifford. Tandem descents were carried out on 4th October 2008, before Wimmer made his tandem descent

Per Wimmer was aware that these earlier descents had taken place and thus he was aware that his repeated claims to have made any "first" parachute descent over Everest were untrue. For example, Wimmer's personal web site "Wimmer Space" claims that the holiday in which he was involved amounted to "History in the making". It did not.

Wimmer's claims are simply untrue, for example his brochure "Everest Sky Dive Wimmer Sept 2008" claims that the challenges included extreme cold, -60 degrees, with wind chill, and that a "special jump suit" was necessary. The tandem master, Ralph Mitchell, who carried Wimmer, wore shorts and was thus bare-legged during throughout their descent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slates05 (talk • contribs) 07:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Everything this guy claims are just lies 👍 Morten02 (talk) 15:12, 11 August 2020 (UTC)