Katie Hansen

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Katie has been skydiving and BASE jumping since 2003. She is highly experienced in many aspects of both sports including wingsuit BASE jumping and competition skydiving. She has 7 world records and multiple US National Championship gold medals in skydiving and has been on three arctic BASE jumping expeditions to Baffin Island. 

One of Katie’s favorite parts about skydiving and BASE jumping is that males and females complete head to head, there is no gender distinction, so when we say she’s the best, we mean out of everybody. Frequently accused of being an adrenaline junkie, Katie explains that’s not the case at all. She often gets asked what got her into all this and her answer is, “When I was a teenage girl I had never even seen a skydive but I just knew it was for me. As a young girl I thought it was inspiring how much confidence in themselves skydivers had- to be able to jump from a plane and trust themselves to save their own life.”

Katie is currently the only female tandem BASE instructor in the world. 

Katie is also an ER nurse and loves to read sci-fi and fantasy.