I’ve seen more and more of these videos, I don’t know if you would call it “Extreme Sports” or just plain old fashioned insanity, but now you can see how it’s done, and it blows my mind that these guys do this, I’m guessing they probably have a 1 in 10 chance of going splat every time they do it.

In a nutshell, they’ve devloped these bat-like “Wing Suits” it’s a suit that you wear that gives you just enough lift to give you some angle when you’re falling straight down to the earth. Not enough to save your ass if you jumped out of a plane, but enough to maybe allow you to fly at a 30-40 degree angle.

So they jump off really steep mountains, and then “fly” above the surface, at speeds over 100 mph, only a few feet above the ground. Then at the end, they pull a parachute (typically when they hit a cliff etc.)

Crazy crazy stuff, but fun to watch.