Wingsuit Flying

Wingsuit pilots wear a suit with fabric between the arms and torso and between the legs, creating a wing that allows gliding at speeds of 100–160 mph with a glide ratio of roughly 2.5:1. Proximity flying — gliding at full speed metres above cliff faces and forests — is the sport's most dangerous discipline, with fatality rates estimated at one death per 500 proximity jumps. Valery Rozov set a wingsuit BASE jump record of 7,220 metres by leaping from a Himalayan peak; Jeb Corliss, one of the sport's most filmed practitioners, survived a crash into Table Mountain in 2012 that would have killed most pilots.