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A high-speed descent with a parachute that will take your breath away

Speedflying

This is one of the most adrenaline-pumping shots you've seen in months. When we think of the Swiss Alps and the Alps in general, most of us think of skiing, hiking and mountaineering first, but not Jamie Lee. For him, the Alps are a natural adrenaline park. Watch his heart-pounding high-speed parachute descent past glaciers, canyons and cliffs.

If you think BASE jumping is the most adrenaline type of sport in the air, then you haven't met yet speedflying, the relatively young sport, you speed descent with a parachute.

Don't try this yourself at home!
Don't try this yourself at home!

Jamie Lee us with its breakneck descent in the Swiss Alps, at which it is almost crawled off the ground, showed what an adrenaline ride with a special parachute called speedwing, and what you should definitely not do if you value your life. The recording was made with GoPro's HERO4 camera.

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Speedflying it's kind of a subculture of paragliding and BASE jumping, who was born in France and today it is considered quite serious extreme sport, with the competition, sponsors and everything that goes along with it.

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