Rocketing through a 25-foot mountain crevasse at 120 miles per hour in a suit made of fabric.
This is more than flying.
This is a stunt that defies the meaning of fear.
And I was just like, I'm going to die.
I'm going to die right now.
This is going to kill me.
Another wingsuit pilot, Jeb Corliss, has made a career out of doing the impossible, a life
in flight, in the air and on the edge.
That is the very thing that I was born to do.
A 2012 accident in South Africa nearly costs him his life.
While flying off Table Mountain, Corliss impacted a rock wedge at 120 miles per hour.
Against all odds, Jeb survived.
And after four surgeries and a year and a half of recovery, it was time to put his next big
plan into action.
I was going to be able to continue living my dreams and living my life.
The next impossible dream?
A stunt called the Flying Dagger, a flight through the three fingers of the Yang Lanshan
mountain pass in eastern China.
To complete this stunt, Jeb must fly for 900 feet and clear a space that will leave
only four feet on either side of him.
September 2013, Corliss arrives with a typhoon warning in effect, threatening the event and
Corliss's safety.
I think I'm genuinely frightened.
How are you doing?
You can see it's not really clouds.
I don't know what you'd call that, haze or overcast.
It's basically touching the top of the mountain, so I can't get the altitude to leave the helicopter
to fly through it anyways.
So I'm not going to be able to do a practice jump right now.
All of my practice days, I was going to be able to do five jumps a day for five days
and that's how I was going to lead myself into this thing.
I didn't get any of them, none.
Right now the condenses are ideal.
Finally a break in the weather.
Corliss races to make much needed practice runs only one day before the event.
Yeah, there he is.
Wow.
So I do my first practice jump flying over it and I'm like looking down going, you know,
and I open high and I come into my lanyard and I slam in and like the horrible landing
is back.
And then all of a sudden it started dawning on me.
It's like I just spent the last year and a half getting better.
So now I'm going to get totally broken again and have to go through another six months
of recovery if I'm lucky.
Stunt day arrives with more bad weather, but the team gets word within minutes of the deadline
that the skies have cleared.
It's time.
And you know I didn't get the proper training, I didn't have proper preparation and I'm
just sitting there and they're looking at me and I'm just like, let's go.
I have a guy in the chopper who's helping me and he's just like, this is where you need
to get out.
I'm like, okay.
And basically but at that point I was just like, I was so terrified I, dude, tears started
coming out of my eyes.
And all of a sudden I feel him touch my shoulder and I remember leaving the helicopter.
Horliss is 1,500 feet above the mountain and hurtling toward two cliffs of sheer granite.
The second I hit it, all of a sudden that 60 foot park just went.
And the feeling was like, I'm way too narrow.
I could feel myself like doing this because I'm literally, because it's crooked, I'm
doing this as I'm flying in it.
So I'm actually having the side slip as I'm coming down and it felt like the only time
I've ever felt that close to rock was when I impacted table.
As I popped out the end of it, I realized I'm like, I'm going too fast to open.
I'm like, I cannot open my parachute right now.
But then I'm like, if you don't open right now, you're not going to make it to your landing
area.
You have to open right now.
My parachute opens with such force that it literally rips hammers off of my head and
they just go, I just watched them get like launched and I'm just like, boom.
And I'm like, oh, and when I'm open, I'm like, okay, geez, grab a toggle, I turn, I see
my landing area and I'm like, oh man, I am not going to make it.
I'm like, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, and bring my legs over
the barrier.
And then I just impact.
Boom.
And I remember just laying there like, and I couldn't believe it, like I literally could
not believe that I had gotten out of the helicopter, that I had flown through it, that I had gotten
a good opening, that I had landed where I was supposed to land, and that I was okay.
The one remaining camera records his landing.
Yes!
Woo!
Holy mother!
Oh my God!
You did it!
I made it!
You fucking did it!
I can't believe I did it!
You fucking did it!
I can't believe I did it!
You fucking did it!
I can't believe I did it!
It was the single gnarliest thing I've ever done in my life, without a doubt.
I have never, ever experienced anything more hardcore, period.
Coming up, a record-breaking jump by accident.
I thought you made the wrong decision.
You are going to die in a few seconds.
