He jumped off Everest's summit with a parachute. πͺ . . . On September 26, 1988, Frenchman Jean-Marc Boivin reached the 8,848-meter summit, unfurled a paraglider, and launched. He landed at Camp II, nearly 3,000 meters below, in about 11 minutes β a descent that took most climbers two to three days. Boivin died paragliding off Angel Falls four years later.
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