LAST MAN FLYING

For wingsuit pilots like Sommer, who can fly along mountainsides at up to 120 mph, the sport amplifies the experience of being alive

“IF THE SPORT DOESN’T GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU DREAMED OF, YOU SHOULD QUIT.”

It’s called Le Pas dans le Vide—Step Into the Void—a tourist attraction at the top of Aiguille du Midi mountain, a ski resort in the French Alps town of Chamonix. If you’re a tourist, you take a cable car and then an elevator to the peak, where you can gaze at the spectacular scenery below.

If you’re Jokke Sommer, you take the same elevator to the top of the mountain—and then you jump. “It’s pretty crazy,” Sommer says. “You’re standing.”