Parachute jumping? Take a flying leap!

Page last updated on 8 November 1998

How mad can you get. Imagine voluntarily leaving a plane while it is 300 meters (1000 feet) above the ground. I pulled this stunt while my dad was out of the country. Good thing too, he would have worried too much. Parachute jumping was a totally freaky experience that had me buzzing for a week. We went as a group from work and for the next week you could pick the jumpers around the laboratory. They all had mad grins on their faces. Probably glad to be alive.

I must jump again, at the time I wasn't scared enough.

Kim and I trying to look cool and unfazed before the jump.

You what! You want me to let go of the strut!! You've got to be joking.

I can't believe I just did that.

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