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Jeb Corliss has dedicated his life to human flight, and in so doing often makes the seemingly impossible a reality. He is one of the world’s foremost and best-known BASE-jumpers and wingsuit pilots. Wingsuit pilots are basically maniacs who put on a Batman suit and use it to fly down the face of mountains.

In 14 years, Corliss has made more than 1 000 jumps, from the likes of the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Falls in Venezuela, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and into a half-mile deep cave in China. He hasn’t simply leapt off and pulled his parachute, though. To add an extra layer of challenge, push the bounds of his ability, and further slice the razor slim margin for error, he has performed acrobatic maneuvers – twists, somersaults, and gainers – during freefall. More recently he discovered the thrills and challenge of BASE-jumping with wingsuits, flying along some of the most stunning and dangerous mountain terrain. In the nearest approximation of human flight yet, wingsuits (which are more flying squirrel than bird or plane) allow the best pilots to trace the contours of cliffs, ridges, and mountainsides at high speed. All of which makes for an incredible spectacle: In July 2011, Corliss flew feet from the ground in the Swiss Alps, an event captured on camera and broadcast on ABC’s 20/20. Two months later, in September, Corliss swooped through an arch in the side of China’s iconic Tianmen Mountain, in front of a live television audience of millions.

Here is an example of Jeb flying. Like a bat.

You get the picture. It’s completely off the hook.

So the HBO network in the US heard how rad Table Mountain is and sent Jeb to Cape Town to jump of it. In a wing suit. We don’t have the video yet, as HBO want to be the first to flight the footage, but hopefully when they see how popular this story is, they’ll let us have a teaser clip sometime soon!

In the meantime, follow the link below to check out the stills of Jeb jumping off Table Mountain yesterday, taken from Jeb’s website www.jebcorliss.net. You can also check out his Facebook page here. 

[Thanks, Marc]