The impossible

Saturday, Luke Aikins, 42, stuntman, trainer and skydiver with nearly 20,000 jumps, wanted to find his limits.

So, naturally, he jumped from a plane flying at 25,000 feet. He jumped without a parachute or wing suit. The idea was to then land, if that is the word, in a net.

Other jumpers went with him for a while until they had to pop their chutes. One took Aikins’ oxygen mask when he reached an altitude at which he could breathe on his own.

Aikins went the rest of the way alone.

Then, as he plummeted closer and closer to earth, he had to try to steer his way to the net, which was a mere 100 fe...