A daredevil has set the record for the highest ever cliff jump – after leaping 192 feet into water below.
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Now, a more terrestrial bit of daredevilry offers similar vicarious thrills-similarly brought to viewers by Red Bull. Laslo Schaller set a world record recently for the highest cliff jump in Maggia, Switzerland, and filmed it from every possible angle.
Here’s the full video of Schaller’s record-breaking leap – if your stomach can handle it. First, Schaller and his team built a platform to give him a clean, controlled exit, with enough projection to clear the rock wall. To make the landing softer, his team also placed six tanks in the landing pool, which was only 8 meters in depth, to aerate the water. From almost 200 feet up, Schaller was jumping into an 8-meter deep pool of aerated water. “The only difference is the airtime”. The impact was akin to a gunshot, resulting in a mad scramble by rescuers who had to drag him back to dry land.
Schaller reached a speed of 76mph as he hit the water, Gizmodo notes.
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He was later checked over by medical staff and was found to have pulled his right leg out slightly and to have possibly dislocated his right hip for a second – a small price to pay for a new world record.
