It’s the real-life birdman! Parachutist flies over the Alps in a wing-suit in ‘world first’
Hurtling over peaks at 500 km an hour (310 miles an hour), a Swiss man flew over the Alps in a wing-suit yesterday.
His team said it was the first time the mountain range had been crossed in such a free fall.
Parachutist Remo Laeng, 36, jumped from a plane 7,500 metres (24,600ft) up, near the Swiss ski resort of Verbier and sped south over the Alps  … Pictures and more
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