Shocking Vid: Base Jumper Crashes in Wingsuit During Mtn. Jump...And Survives!

Jeb Corliss does things you and I only dream of (and some have nightmares about). For example, he jumps off mountains wearing only a wingsuit, and then glides through the air like a bird. But sometimes, gliding turns to falling, like it did in Cape Town, South Africa, while shooting a special for HBO.

Corliss and a cameraman both jumped off table mountain in an effort to catch his "flight." But things soon went horribly wrong. The Telegraph explains:

Jeb Corliss, 35, was being filmed by US network HBO and was performing his second jump from the Cape Town landmark when the accident happened at 10am on Monday.

A spokesman for Table Mountain, Merle Collins, said Mr Corliss was "lucky to be alive" after he fell more than 200 feet from the 3,500 foot mountain before landing on a sloped side known as Africa Face.

"He managed to release his emergency chute and we believe he would have died without it," she said.