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Swiss Man Breaks World Record With 26,000-Foot Jump Without Oxygen

Agence France PresseJun 9, 2014, 01:27 IST

AFPSwiss Remo Lang on June 8, 2014, above Aarberg breaking a world record after he leapt from a hot-air balloon at an altitude of 8,000 metres without oxygen.

A Swiss man set a new world record on Sunday when he leapt from a hot-air balloon from an altitude of 8,000 meters (26,200 feet) without oxygen, the ATS news agency reported.

Remo Lang, 38, threw himself out of the balloon early in the morning and landed around 10 minutes later at Aarberg, in the Berne canton of Switzerland.

Wearing a "wingsuit", his freefall lasted five minutes.

Lang's team said he prepared himself for the jump by taking in oxygen from a tank intensively for half an hour before the stunt.