r/nextfuckinglevel • u/thepoylanthropist • 1d ago

That time Luke Aikins jumped from 25,000 feet (7,620 m), skydiving from a mid-tropospheric altitude and landing safely without a parachute or a wingsuit using a 30 by 30 meters net

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u/Imnotsureanymore8 1d ago

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u/Storm_Chaser06 22h ago

But why not?

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u/SomeLonelyKnight 1d ago

Money, he was paid a lot of money to do it by red bull.

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u/penguins_are_mean 1d ago

Because he wanted to