You may have seen wingsuit athletes fly next to Airbus planes or just dive through the sky for the heck of it, but Vince Reffet’s latest video posted on Facebook is special for one big reason: midway through the footage, the three men get so close the ground at such a high speed you could see that one wrong move could mean serious injury.
That section of the video practically resembles a high-octane video game, where characters have to dodge obstacles to reach the end of the race. But here, daredevil athletes Reffet, Noah Bahnson Nate Jones, Graham Dickinson and Sam Hardy donned wingsuits to allow them to fly across the sky with ease. The flight took place last year reportedly near The Aiguille du Midi, a mountain within the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps, but this footage has only been made public this week.
Note that while from the perspective of one of the fliers we can only see two other athletes, Reffet’s video description writes there are four men altogether.
After Reffet posted this video on his Facebook Page Thursday morning, the views, comments and shares rocketed, with the video now enjoying 203,000 views at the time of this report.
If Reffet’s name sounds familiar to Digital Journal readers, you’re not alone. In November, he joined a fellow daredevil in an Emirates ad where they flew beside an Airbus A380 plane in a carefully choreographed flight.
Recently Deffet and fellow skydiver/wingsuit flier Yves Rossy appeared on the Conan talk show earlier this month. Check out their humourous chat below:
